DU’S MASS BOYCOTT OF NBC/COMCAST IN EFFORT TO REINSTATE KEITH!!! K&R PLZ

[NYMdaveNYI]

K&R TO THE TOP OF THE FORUM!!!!!!

DON’T WATCH MSNBC, CNBC, NBC (local stations either)


WE NEED TO TANK THEIR NUMBERS!!!!!

KEITH HAS FOUGHT FOR US FOR YEARS


IT’S OUR TIME TO HELP HIM!!!!!!


K&R
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For KO

[SeattleGirl]

1. I'm not watching.

I hope their numbers TANK!

[madmax]

2. k&r

[redirish28]

3. Won't stream later tonight like I had done in the past.

[Waiting For Everyman]

4. K&R

[Individualist]

Boycott NBC AND Comcast!

[napi21]

5. The stand in host said he will have more on the KO story later

in the show. I think it's worth watching.

[JenniferJuniper]

8. Who is Stand In? For a minute I thought Anderson Cooper dyed his hair and

put on some weight.


zzzzzzzz......

[NYMdaveNYI]

30. The dude puts me to sleep faster than Lawrence...

I hate him just as much during his afternoon hour



And before I clicked on your subthread I was like "what else, Anderson gained thirty pounds?" lol psychic..

[nadinbrzezinski]

49. Thomas Roberts

[NYMdaveNYI]

68. and he’s about as exciting as cold oatmeal. nt

[Kalyke]

13. I'm watching so you don't have to.

I'm not a Neilsen family and I'm a trained reporter.

But... you can watch. :)

[mzmolly]

25. I'm not watching. What did the host say?

Thanks for the info napi21.

[NYMdaveNYI]

34. and by “story” you mean “sentence” nt

[babylonsister]

6. No. I won't boycott Rachel. I want to find out how this goes first.

It could be resolved by the a.m. for all we know.

[jwirr]

99. And therein lies the problem. Big Ed, Rachel and LO'D do not deserve

to be boycotted.

[Earth_First]

7. Can I still watch 30 Rock & The Office via Hulu?

:shrug:

[taterguy]

11. Do you want to save Keith or not?

He's depending on you

[NYMdaveNYI]

27. Give it a week... Nt

[David Zephyr]

9. K&R.

Kick.

[RamboLiberal]

10. K&R - I'm boycotting 8PM

[jwirr]

101. That I will do.

[Ilsa]

12. Done. I just switched off Countdown and turned to PBS. I have DirecTv,

so you bet they are getting real numbers.

I didn't know about this until the evening news.

[me b zola]

14. I turned them off and plan to keep them off

Rachel should call in sick today anyway.


Solidarity

[LynneSin]

16. So you're going to screw over Rachel, Ed and Lawrence too?

:shrug:

[me b zola]

23. I'm not screwing over anybody

Comcast is screwing us all. I can't imagine Rachel showing up tonight, you know with that nasty bug thats going around and all. Lawrence doesn't air on Fridays. As for Monday, I'll have the week-end to think about it.

[NYMdaveNYI]

26. Rachel's email is [e-mail], tell her to hold out too (nt)

[LynneSin]

103. That's the person we should be protesting

I need to figure out how to unload Comcast without running back to Verizon

[sabrina 1]

52. If they would screw Keith, they will screw Rachel, Ed and Lawrence

before too long.

When Republicans were in power the last time, MSNBC did the same thing. Started firing all their progressive hosts and reporters.

They fired Donahue, who had the top rated show at the time.

They fired their star reporter, Ashley Banfield when she told the truth about the war in Afghanistan.

They wanted to 'go righter than Fox' because they thought that was the way the wind was blowing at the time.

Now, the Republicans are back, and here we go again.

Rachel is smart enough to know if they got rid of Ashley Banfield, she better watch what she says from now on.

If the French can stop the country from functioning in order to stop the government from raising the retirement age, the least we can do here to preserve progressive voices on the media, is simply turn it off until they get the message.

[awoke_in_2003]

80. +1000. nt

[CLANG]

78. Nobody except Keith is getting screwed

The other shows tanking will be correlated to the Keith/MSNBC boycott and they won't be held responsible.

As I told Phil fucking Griffin, I'll start watching MSNBC the moment Keith is back on the air.

[rhett o rick]

87. You go right ahead and support the overlord's. SHRUG yourself. nm

[HereSince1628]

15. !

[crazylikafox]

17. k&r

[Jamastiene]

18. K&R

[crazylikafox]

19. Here's a starter list of NBC shows - please feel free to add

o me
o 30 Rock
o America's Got Talent
o The Apprentice
o Biggest Loser
o Chase
o Chuck
o Community
o Dateline
o Days of our Lives
o The Event
o Last Call | Carson
o Late Night | Fallon
o Law & Order: Los Angeles
o Law & Order: SVU
o Movies & Specials
o The Office
o Outlaw
o Outsourced
o Parenthood
o Saturday AM/qubo
o Saturday Night Live
o School Pride
o Tonight Show | Jay
o Undercovers

[taterguy]

21. The A-Team!

[Enthusiast]

85. I won't turn on a single one. nt

[geekgrrl]

20. What about hitting their sponsors with a boycott??

That would certainly hurt!!

BRING BACK KEITH!

[NYMdaveNYI]

24. Or at least the ones who run ads during Countdown...

Let's start with that, send them emails and tell them to pull their ads from Countodwn

[ixion]

22. k/r

[MinM]

28. k-r

[pipi_k]

29. Um, excuse me for asking this, but....

Unless there's some sort of tracking device or people are reporting to some central entity keeping tabs on such things, exactly HOW does not watching a certain network help or hurt anyone?

Really.

Does anyone actually believe that a couple of dozen (or even a couple of hundred...best case scenario) people on an internet discussion board can influence a giant corporation/network?

Honestly, there are times when I think I've fallen into the black hole of the Twilight Zone around here...

sigh...

[NYMdaveNYI]

36. Not watching is not the WHOLE operation, we’re going to complain to NBC repeatedly also nt

[pipi_k]

38. Again....

who is this "we"?

A couple of dozen DUers?

Or maybe a few thousand people around the country?


I guess people have short memories. Back in 2004 when John Kerry was running against W, the ABC network was planning on showing an extremely inflammatory program invented by those sleazy Swift Boat assholes.

I remember how outraged people were...threatening ABC and its affiliates with all sorts of things...not going to ever watch their channels again...complaining to sponsors, etc.

You know what happened? They laughed at us and did what the hell they wanted.

I'll bet the same thing happened after the Dan Rather debacle, too.


Hey, if it makes you all feel better to express outrage, then go wild. Just don't be surprised if it doesn't make a shred of difference.

[NYMdaveNYI]

39. Rachel just acknowledged our phone calls and emails ... nt

[pipi_k]

41. Shows she's got good manners...

and, to be honest, that's as far as I believe it's going to go.

But if it gives you all an outlet for your rage, then go for it.


No doubt there will be some new outrage to get all foamy-mouthed about next month.

[NYMdaveNYI]

42. HuffPost exploded, Chris Hayes boycotted guest-hosting, the PCCC has a formal petition, trust me...

We here on DU are just fans in the stands.

[nadinbrzezinski]

50. It used to be the Nielsens

so you could see that.

These days YOUR cable system tracks all you watch... lovely thought.

So yes, they know up to the minute what is being watched and what is not.

Why do you think we have moved from Weekly demographics... Nielsens had to get the data, to DAILY demos.

Dime on dollar that today's demo for the eight O'Clock show was LOWER.

[Bluenorthwest]

59. That is so very not true

They do not track all you watch, I wish to hell they did, I'd be making more money. In the biz, since I was a kid. This is my bread, butter and roof. The difference in the speed of Neilsen reporting has to do with the way the information is gathered now, which is no longer a physical log being mailed in, it is electronic. Just like this message, it will post instantly. Imagine DU by mail! That is the difference.
I read the paranoia based 'they track it all' stuff with amusement. I wish. Many of us wish. They wish, for that matter. It is simply not the case at this point in time.

[pipi_k]

65. They actually sent me the logs...

[Common Sense Party]

73. I mailed my log in. This was three or four months ago.

[pipi_k]

62. I don't have a cable company...

I have satellite.

Also, and just very coincidentally, I'm sitting here looking at the envelope containing the TV diaries sent to me by....The Nielson Company.

Second time in ten years.

Because, presumably, they want to know what we're watching here, because, also presumably, they can't tell what we're watching here.


And...another fly in the pie...unless these cable and satellite companies have little cameras hooked up to their equipment to spy on people in their homes, they don't have a clue as to whether someone is actually watching the TV or whether it's on and people are not even paying attention to it.

That's how things operate at my house. The TV is on all day, but most of the time, nobody is really sitting down actively watching it.

If they're keeping track of what channels are on without taking something like that into account, then the data they think they have is absolutely wrong.

[CLANG]

79. At least 175K signed the petition. DU isn't that big!

Make that 219K as of this minute.

[Enthusiast]

86. So just what do you suggest

as a course of action?

[kenfrequed]

89. He doesn't

After all, even the bother of writing a few emails, making a call or two or writing snail mail would be effort. It is far easier to disabuse of any notion that anyone cares about anything any of us say.

I find it ironic that anyone on a political website, particularly a progressive leaning democratic one, would attempt to convince us that our opinion and our power as people does not matter.

[greenmutha]

37. "A couple of dozen"...

"couple of hundred...best case scenario"

Really?

Maybe you should check this out:
saveolbermann.com

It has over 110,000 signatures as of this writing.

[pipi_k]

40. And you know what?

Even if it gets up to 200,000 these people...the networks...know that Americans have very short attention spans.

People will sign the petition, then forget.

Unemployment...shitty health care...people with health problems...foreclosures...other personal problems.

You don't really believe that people going through personal problems or tragedies are going to remember...or CARE...next week that they signed this petition, do you?


A bunch of people might sign that petition today, then find themselves out of a job next week and not give two shits about Keith Olbermann.

That's just reality.

[nadinbrzezinski]

51. It is their daily AVERAGE demographic

you poo poo any civil action, don't you?

[pipi_k]

60. No, I just poo-poo the ones...

that don't make any sense.

I've been around for a while, and I've seen the many calls for boycotts of various people, things, places, and institutions.


Most, if not all, of them have been pointless in the long run and have accomplished very little, if anything, besides making the boycotters feel like they have control.

It's all as stupid as it was when the RWers boycotted all things French when France pissed people off during the early days of the Iraq war.

Then Congress very STUPIDLY renamed "french fries". Remember that? "Freedom fries".

Remember when the RW crazies decided they were going to boycott all things Disney over some idiotic issue involving so-called "family values"?

That was some time ago. I don't see where the Disney Corp. went down the tubes because of it.


This whole thing is ridiculous. Keith Olbermann signed a contract. He violated one of the terms of the contract and now has to deal with the consequences. It's not about his "Constitutional right" to donate. It's about the fact that he could donate but had to consult with his employers first. How difficult is that?

He was wrong to violate the terms of a contract he signed. I'm not going to waste my time defending someone who doesn't have clean hands.

But if that sort of thing makes someone else feel better, then go for it.

[Enthusiast]

93. Oh bullshit! nt

[xocet]

96. Are you against unions, too? You would be a terrible organizer. n/t

[NYMdaveNYI]

45. yup (nt)

[awoke_in_2003]

Dupe. nt

[awoke_in_2003]

81. Most get MSNBC...

(actually all) via cable or satellite. The numbers are easy to track- don't need in home meters like airwave TV.

[proud patriot]

31. I was at work all day Came home turned on MSNBC

like I awlways do . reached over turned on the Computer thinking to myself huh where's
big Ed . The Computer booted up and I open the internet DU being my homepage , My Jaw
hit the Floor thought wait It's Not April Fools .. Micheal Moore slammed Mathews was he
on Keith's show no it was Lawrence's show WTF ! Growing anger as I continued to read .

I Turned the TV OFF I turned my cable box to another channel then turned it OFF ! I signed
the Petition Some lady On facebook is trying to tell me that Keith Hates Women and I explain
to her that Keith bashes both sexes equally It's Republican hypocrisy that he despises. I tell
her I watch his show 2 times a night and that I have not once been offended by him . She tells me
I'm wrong . GOOD GRIEF

This American Woman stands with Keith Shoulder to Shoulder :patriot:

It's feels good to be among Friends here pledging to do the same :patriot:

[NYMdaveNYI]

33. No joke: today was the first....

day in about 5 weeks I was able to find the time to sit down, chill, and watch Countdown in its entirety, and wouldn’t ya know it, he’s been pulled.

[pacalo]

32. Not watching.

[greenmutha]

35. I'm not watching either!

:mad: FUCK MSNBC :mad:

[elocs]

43. I'm watching. I don't need to boycott to empower me or make me feel good about my choices.

There's nothing wrong with doing something that makes you feel good about your choice, but unless a boycott is local and focussed it is likely not to be effective.

[NuclearDem]

44. I'm watching Rachel tonight...

...then I'm turning off MSNBC.

[BurtWorm]

46. Easy for me.

I wasn't watching MSNBC before the suspension either.

[Iggo]

47. Rec this thread if...?

Jeez.

[sabrina 1]

48. K&R for Keith Olbermann

[Liberty Belle]

53. Expand to boycott GE, parent company of NBC - & TELL THESE COMPANIES YOU ARE BOYCOTTING!

It's not enough to just not watch. If you're not part of the Nielsen ratings they'll never know. Contact them and tell them. Contact GE's investor relations VP and say GE's stock will be tanking soon because of this boycott and you're concerned.

Own GE stock? Call you broke and ask to sell it and divest of any mutual funds that include GE -- then email investor relations to tell them why you sold your stock.

Contact sponsors and advertisors on Olbermann's show. Thank them for sponsoring it and ask THEM to apply some pressure!

Tell them you don't want to see a non-liberal take over the show and would not buy products of anyone advertising on it if that happens. Ask them to urge MSNBC to put Olbermann back on.

[WA98296]

54. K&R

[BlancheSplanchnik]

55. no cable here, so actually I've never seen MSNBC

but I'm K&Ring anyway!!!!!!!!!!!

[Snellius]

56. Comcast already cut MSNBC years ago

No need to boycott MSNBC. Comcast cut it from its regular lineup years ago. just before the presidential elections. It would like nothing better than to see it gone. The only way is for everyone on MSNBC to walk but they seem more worried about the money and their so-called careers. Comcast is going to sack them all anyway.

[Bluenorthwest]

61. I have Comcast with MSNBC and always have

As do many on this thread.

[NYMdaveNYI]

66. What are you talking about? I have Comcast, and I watch MSNBC from dawn to dusk. nt

[Zax2me]

57. What if Keith doesn't want to come back after all this?

It is possible...

[NYMdaveNYI]

67. Possible, but illogical....

Phil Griffin, as much as there is a rift between himself and Keith, knows he cannot cut him from the primetime lineup; Countdown has carried the network on its shoulders since 2003, and if it gets pulled because Keith gave a couple thousand bucks in donations, –– something Scarborough gets away with –– the network’s ratings will plummet further into the abyss.

[aikoaiko]

58. I support MSNBC lifting the suspension....

but I'm still watching MSNBC and NBC and using my GE products.

[Carolina]

63. K&R K&R K&R K&R K&R!

[HughMoran]

64. IF they don't reinstate him, THEN I won't watch

I think there's some messed up priorities on this boycott.

[lbrtbell]

83. No, you don't understand boycotts

You do them to pressure people to take action. You don't do them after action has already been taken, because that's too late.

[HughMoran]

102. I think we're being manipulated

That's what I think.

I'm not going to make a fool out of myself until all the facts are in.

I signed he petition, but participating in a ineffectual "boycott" isn't something I plan to consider until more information is in.

[Goldstein1984]

69. When the TV was on, it was usually on MSNBC

We watched a few episodes of Criminal Minds yesterday, but the TV hasn't been on much, and MSNBC hasn't been on the TV at all, since we learned Olbermann was suspended.

I miss Rachel Maddow.

[Richard D]

70. K & R

Another on the voice of boycott. (Sorry Rachael, I'll miss you.)

[Broken_Hero]

71. I barely watch anyways, so its rather easy....:) nt

[Common Sense Party]

72. ALL RIGHT! ANOTHER BOYCOTT!!!!

This will change EVERYTHING.

:rofl:

[felix_numinous]

74. Yes, and say we would do the same for Rachel,

and other liberals in the media. Haven't we had enough? They are trying to get away with dragging the media back to Bush years, before MSNBC allowed any liberal commentators. Keith Olbermann was the first, and he has been pissing off the right for many years. He has successfully taken down many of them.

[AzDar]

75. K & R

:kick:

[barbtries]

76. all right.

of course i boycott all cable tv except the shows i watch on netflix or hulu. or the daily show or rachel, which i enjoy while getting ready for work in the morning. do i have to quit her too? :(

[davidwparker]

77. I'm not watching. I've given them to Friday to announce

he is coming back. Otherwise, I remove that tier from my DishNetwork, since I'm paying for that tier just for MSNBC.

The money saved will go towards Hartmann and Malloy podcasts. (Already get Randi and Mama.)

Solidarity.

[prodigals0n]

82. Might just as well remove NBC and all its affiliates from my cable package

Because I'm not watching any of it until Keith Olbermann is back on the air -- with Phil Griffin giving him a public apology on the very first show, and then doing the network and the viewers a favor and resigning on the spot.

I know. I know. But I can dream.

[Enthusiast]

84. I refuse to watch.

I won't even watch current You tube clips of MSNBC. Sorry, Ed, Cenk, Rachel, O'Donnell and Ratigan.

[lobodons]

88. Easy to Boycott MSNBC on the weekends!!

and all of the prison type shows. It will be hard come Monday though. :(

Griffin, you SUCK!!!!!!

[ProgressiveLiberal]

90. Anyone outraged about continuing torture and misbegotten war by this administration?

Or the discontinuation of all extended unemployment benefits the end of this month?

Because if you're going to take the time to sign an internet petition for Keith you might want to take an additional few minutes and fire off a letter or make a phone call to your Congressman/Senator and/or the President about the above.

Keith is great and I'm a fan and all but there are a few more pressing issues in the country that you might want to spen some time and outrage on as well is all I am saying.

[droidamus2]

91. I just wish

I wish I could boycott MSNBC over their treatment of Keith Olbermann but unfortunately due to my economic situation I had to cut back on the number of channels I am getting from Dish Network (I know I probably should have canceled it completely) so I no longer get MSNBC.

[idrahaje]

92. Although being Keith and knowing his view on things

probably would disapprove... but then again George Washington didn't want to be president and look how he turned up.

It is our free speech to turn MSNBC off. Or NBC, etc

(ahem does that mean nobody's going to be buying the Knight Rider dvd's?? )speaking for a son of mine :P

[toddwv]

94. I watched Maddow's comment on Friday.

Haven't been back since and I'm changing my main news website from MSNBC to another website.

[southern_belle]

95. I'm in!!! no problem

with that! :eyes:

[xocet]

97. K&R

[Drunken Irishman]

98. Ha. No. Sorry. My internet, phone and cable all runs through Comcast...

But I'll happily help in spirit.

[The Wielding Truth]

100. K&R