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Sanity -> RE: Fox News Boycott responses (2/16/2010 6:42:39 AM)
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When your ideology is reduced to trying to get the government to force others to air your talking points for you, your cause is probably a lost one. And as far as having the FCC regulate what goes over the air at FOX NEWS, good luck with that - because FOX NEWS doesn't go out over the airways.
Its a CABLE network. [sm=doh.gif]
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ORIGINAL: samboct
Like many things about our government today-the failure of the FCC to regulate can be traced back to Reagan's mantra that "government is always the problem." Prior to Reagan, the FCC had a responsibility to police the airwaves and to make certain that stations broadcasting aired opposing viewpoints. In other words, you could have some imbecile like Glenn Beck on, you just had to balance it with I don't know- a Kate Sawyer? (I don't watch TV news- my news seems to come from this board and the NY Times and Science magazine- I think I have a warped view of the world.) This would prevent some of what's happened today, the partisanship in US politics because people don't even have to listen and aren't cognizant of the opposing viewpoint. Oh, there have been vitriolic debates in the past because the news always has a slant, but perhaps the debates were more informed? It's one thing to disagree on the interpretation of events, its another to deny their existence.
Can anyone point to a concrete difference between Fox news and one of Julius Streicher's rags of the third Reich? Because as far as I can tell, they're both propaganda masquerading as news with heavy support by the wealthy.
In terms of Stranger Than's comment that liberal and conservative viewpoints have the same IQ.. Well, probably not true. The smartest profession I know of are scientists (I'm a dumb one.) and their politics is heavily tilted liberal- I think the distribution (from Science magazine) is 85/15. Note that these numbers don't include engineers and are largely made up of Ph.D.s. So the popular perception that eggheads are liberals has a vein of truth to it.
In terms of Sanity's viewpoint-excuse me? Corporations don't respond to the threat of jail readily, they just lawyer up. If you want to hurt a corporation, hit them in their bottom line. I can't stand Walmart for a variety of reasons ranging from labor practices to the shoddy goods they sell. My solution- don't walk through their front doors. When enough people do this- it has an effect. Exxon needed an ad campaign to deal with the fallout from the Valdez, and did their business ever fully recover? How about Nestle being tagged as a baby poisoner? The biggest problem with the boycott is that its not targeted enough. Pick the major three or four advertisers on Fox Propaganda network, picket them, take out ads in other places and make sure that they are highly visible. Laundry lists of too many advertisers doesn't do anything the threat is too diffuse.
Sam
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