Are the Dems boycotting cable news?

[John_H]

I mean, this can't be that bad can it? Nobody, not the chairman, not the candidate was able to get a single person on TV to respond? The networks would not let a Dem on to respond in light of what they did in our convention?

I just can't believe it?

[Cha]

1. I thought I saw where Ron Reagan was on

msnbc much earlier..Where is Terry McAulliff?

[jean]

4. McAuliffe commented on the purple heart bandaids - don't know in

what context, if it was via media or just picked up at the convention

[bossfish]

2. Are they being invited to go on?

I expect to see Terry M on immediately after Shrub's address on Thursday. I know I saw Gillespie at the DNC.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. Yah you'd figure after Ed Freaking Gillespie was one of the "commentators"

on the Dem convention... Not watching much TV, are there ANY Dem partisans covering this on cable or network?

[goodhue]

5. It's pretty amazing, the total absence of center left commentators that is

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. WE should be boycotting cable news

if we aren't already. The only thing that keeps me from going completely berserk over their unbelievably biased "reporting" is the knowledge that only a very small percentage of the population actually watches cable news. But they truly, truly suck.

[GimmeDANEger]

7. One thing I never understood ....

What's the point of boycotting a television station when you aren't in a Nielsen household? I know watching it may be strenous, but we need to watch the enemy so we can know the enemy.

[DaveSZ]

8. I don't watch Fox or CNN

I do watch MSNBC and CNN headline news sometimes.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Because it's too demoralizing.

I agree in theory with the need to "know the enemy," but I get so angry and disheartened when I see the blatant bias of almost all cable news "reporting" that I've had to turn them off -- for my own sanity. To do a true boycott with economic impact, you'd have to cancel your cable service and/or boycott their advertisers.

[Only Me]

12. The FCC just heard, a few weeks ago about cable and satellite aversion to

ala carte programming (was on c-span) for more customer friendly lower rates. In otherwords, the future is pick your own
programming. If we pick selective programming we will only buy what we are interested in watching. We all know everything is about money and big business. I say boycott them now, give them a taste of what it could be like if and when the customer is truly in charge
of what we watch. The distributors will only carry what the customers want. And the stations run because you and me buy the products that they are selling in those time slots. Hinder sales and they'll listen.

[John_H]

13. Unless the cable companies can tell what people are watching

or not watching via some digital cable technology i'm not aware of, we have to contact advertisers to tell them we're boycotting the shows/stations they advertise on.

[Only Me]

14. I have written CNN and MSNBC and got no response.

The way that it stands right now I don't think the cable companies really care. I agree the only way, right now, is to contact the companies that buy airtime on these cable/regular networks and tell them we are not watch ANY of that channel because of .,.,.,.
Just missing that program doesn't really cut much into their sales. Advertiser, Bayer (example only) may run advertisement many times aday on that same station. IMO, its cut out the whole station or nothing. And I TOTALLY agree we must contact these advertisers and tell them.

[atre]

15. Actually...

The method of collecting Nielsen ratings has changed. Now, if you are a sample household, you wouldn't know it.

[GimmeDANEger]

16. How can they legally monitor your viewing without permission? n/t

[Only Me]

9. I don't watch Fx, Fox, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, or any programming from any

of them. I watch Dan Rather Evening News on CBS very rarely. I don't watch any programming on that channel either. Internet news only.

[senseandsensibility]

10. Yes!

I am!