contributed to it!
As you know, ABC plans on airing a piece of fiction (docudrama) called "The Path to 9/11" in which it made up scenes which essentially blame President Clinton on being soft on terror and allowing Bin Laden to get away. I want to point you to a link that refutes this lie:
http://www.cnn.com/US/9607/30/clinton.terrorism/ Click on it and share it far and wide. While you're at it, enjoy this cartoon by Mark Fiore:
http://www.markfiore.com/animation/phony.html If you feel like taking some action against ABC, I got the following great advice from DailyKos:
The local affiliate has only a few commercials to sell in the network programs, because the majority of ads have already been bought by national advertisers (see above). Where the local affiliate makes its money is in their own newscasts, where they control (and make) 100% of the advertising inventory.
Telling the local affiliate that you won't watch "The Path to 9/11" is like throwing a lawn chair off the Titanic; it's meaningless because they control so little of the ad revenue there. The only real way to pressure the local affiliate is to stop watching their news. If you do that, the affiliate will exert its pressure uphill, to the network. And the network can hardly afford to (anger) off its affiliates.
THIS IS IMPORTANT: many of you have been sending emails to your local affiliates via their websites. Those emails, in the vast majority of cases, are going to the affiliate's Program Director. To be effective, you must send your emails to the General Sales Manager. He/she is the one person most concerned with the boycotts, news viewership, and the correlation between ratings and ad revenue.
In our case, that email would be: sales@abc4.tv and feel free to call them at 801-975-4444 .
If you own a DVR, read this.
Your cable or satellite company (DirecTV, Dish Network) is reporting to ABC (and the other networks) what programs you have on a "timer." If your DVR, for instance, is set to record "Desperate Housewives" or "Grey's Anatomy," ABC likely knows it. And those ratings projections will go up, along with ad rates, and finally, the profit in Mickey's pocket.
Last night, I deleted all my ABC timers. There's a fairly good chance that I'll still watch "Desperate Housewives" when it debuts on the 24th, but I won't give ABC the benefit of knowing that in advance. And certainly, you should not DVR "The Path to 9/11."
Another thing mentioned in the comments is that if you have TIVO, you can downrate all the ABC shows.
"Drive it home - Downrate DVR "Suggestions" too (10+ / 0-)
'Last night, I deleted all my ABC timers. There's a fairly good chance that I'll still watch "Desperate Housewives" when it debuts on the 24th, but I won't give ABC the benefit of knowing that in advance. And certainly, you should not DVR "The Path to 9/11.'"
A crucial segment of the DVR has "suggestions" that are automatically recorded based on your prior selections. The broadcasters pay a premium to get their suggested programs automatically recorded to your queue. If you downrate these ABC programs it helps put the hurting on too.
Get dirty - downrate all ABC shows on DVR (5+ / 0-)
you can thumbs down or downrate all the ABC shows on your guide - these ratings are gathered minute by minute...
Just go into ! each program info screen and select thumbs down - mine allows three negative ratings.
It's kinda fun. If they pull the 9/11 program I will release their channel ratings on my DVR by uprating them. For now they are hostage."
Much more can be found here:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/9/8/12711/37922 Thanks!
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