Liberals Going After Fox AdvertisersJul 27 04:08 PM US/Eastern
By DAVID BAUDER
AP Television Writertry { insert_digg_btn('world_news'); } catch(e){}NEW YORK (AP) - Liberal activists are stepping up their campaign against Fox News Channel by pressuring advertisers not to patronize the network.


MoveOn.org, the Campaign for America's Future and liberal blogs like DailyKos.com are asking thousands of supporters to monitor who is advertising on the network. Once a database is gathered, an organized phone-calling campaign will begin, said Jim Gilliam, vice president of media strategy for Brave New Films, a company that has made anti-Fox videos.
The groups have successfully pressured Democratic presidential candidates not to appear at any debate sponsored by Fox, and are also trying to get Home Depot Inc. to stop advertising there.

At least 5,000 people nationwide have signed up to compile logs on who is running commercials on Fox, Gilliam said. The groups want to first concentrate on businesses running local ads, as opposed to national commercials.

"It's a lot more effective for Sam's Diner to get calls from 10 people in his town than going to the consumer complaint department of some pharmaceutical company," Gilliam said.

Some of videos produced by Gilliam's company compile statements made by Fox anchors and guests that the activists consider misleading, such as those that question global warming.

Representatives for Fox News Channel, which is owned by News Corp., did not immediately return calls for comment.

Home Depot has not had an unusual number of calls, said spokesman Jerry Shields, and the home improvement chain will not change its advertising strategy.

"We're not in the business of censoring media," Shields said. "We need to reach our customer base through all mediums available."

Groups like the Sierra Club have targeted Home Depot because they believe it's inconsistent for the company to promote environmentally friendly products while advertising on a network that has questioned global warming.

The groups seem particularly angry at Fox's Bill O'Reilly, who has done critical reports on left-wing bloggers. On July 16, O'Reilly said the DailyKos.com Web site is "hate of the worst order," and sent a reporter to question JetBlue Airways Corp. CEO Dave Barger about the airline's sponsorship of a gathering run by DailyKos.

He'll never ride on JetBlue again, O'Reilly said.

MoveOn.org is campaigning against Fox because it says the network characterizes itself as a fair news network when it consistently favors a conservative point of view, said Adam Green, the organization's spokesman.
"We're not trying to silence anybody," Green said. "Rush Limbaugh has a right to be on the air—he admits his point of view. Fox doesn't."

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Hooray, fuck fox news. They are right wing speak period. People that watch that crap are sick in the head and full of hate. I never see a positive thing on Fox, just how fucked up the democrats are and how the repukes get everything right, pathetic.

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You must never watch Fox then. They are conservative, sure, but they aren't towing the line for Republicans.

This isn't surprising. The Left wants to suppress opposition and free speech wherever they are in the world.

Ha ha ha ha, who put the patriot act into play, who's tapping our phones, who is making it illegal to protest the war, Ha ha ha ha ho ho, the democrats, yeah right. you've definently been watching too much fox news.

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Faux News is the BOMB. Not.

so true, medman..so true.

Thankfully my kids aren't duped by the Dupya and his media War Machine...

"day of judgement God is calling
underneath the WAR PIGS crawling
begging mercy for their sins
Satan laughing spreads his wings...."

Can someone explain why CBS retains even one scintilla of credibility after the Dan Rather travesty?
And yet, Fox is the worst News network in the universe?
What is the Fox equivalent of Dan Rather's meltdown?....Rather is a NEWS man, whereas most of the perception of a right wing bias comes from the OPINION shows on Fox.
Substantial difference, IMO!

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Is that the best you can do to counter fox bullshit, Rather. At least he admitted he had questionable material even though most of us know the premis the Bush never bothered to show up at his national guard station was probably true enough. Just goes to show how trivial repukes are. Come on now and tell me what a terrific job your hero Dubya is doing, HA ha ha ha ha ha, get over it, Fox is a lying bunch of Rupert Murdoch puppets, for all I know they may be robots,~LOL~.

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You should realize that blaming the other side doesn't disprove what I said. Not directly addressing a point and pointing the finger elsewhere is a sign of weakness. Go to ultra-liberal Europe and say something bad about non-indigenous Europeans, or question the "official version" of the Holocaust, and then call me from your prison cell after they lock you up for it.

1. The Bush administration put the Patriot Act into place, Med. As a result, INTERNATIONAL phone calls have been monitored and terrorist acts have been foiled.

2. My phone isn't being tapped. Your phone isn't being tapped. My friend's phones aren't being tapped. Your friend's phones aren't being tapped either. See #1 above.

3. It is still legal to protest the war, Med. Using violence to protest the war isn't, and has never been.

Stop with the George Soro's talking points and use your head for a change.

Vi

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