Progressive Democrat Issue 52: MEDIA ACTIVISM II
Here is a new action (Nov. 2005) regarding Fox News:
On November 8th, 2005, Bill O'Reilly publicly advocated a terrorist attack on San Francisco.
From the November 8, broadcast of Fox News' The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly:
O'REILLY: "Hey, you know, if you want to ban military recruiting, fine, but I'm not going to give you another nickel of federal money. You know, if I'm the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium, and I say, 'Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military
recruiting, you're not going to get another nickel in federal funds.
Fine. You want to be your own country? Go right ahead.'
"And if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to
do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in
America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up
the Coit Tower? Go ahead. "
Everyone knows that this is just one more horrible, disgusting comment by Bill O'Reilly. But this time he is advocating outright terrorism against an American city. There is a campaign to nail O'Reilly for this comment. Here is a Daily Kos diary on the subject.
In particular, people are writing the four sponsors of O'Reilly's
program that day demanding that they pull their advertising. I
participated in this. Here is a followup Daily Kos diary that includes
some responses from advertisers, though most of the diary isn't too
informative.
So far the response from the advertisers has been to either gleefully
support O'Reilly or to say "Oh, we just advertise on his show, we don't
endorse what he says." The former deserves an all out boycoatt and the
latter is lame as can be. Hence I come to this list to spread the word
on this issue. Here's the key info:
According to O'Reilly's website, his corporate sponsors are:
* Equifax
* Life Quotes, Inc.
* EmigrantDirect.com
* Tempur-Pedic
Equifax is one of the "Big Three" credit reporting agencies. I sent an
email to their Media Relations contact, David Rubinger
seems to contradict the fact that O'Reilly claims their sponsorship. It
is still worth writing them. If they feel the heat for their past
sponsorship, it will dissuade them from advertising again on the Radio
Factor.
Life Quotes, Inc. appears to be part of Quotesmith.com, Inc., which
runs www.insure.com, a "comprehensive online customer insurance
information service that caters to the needs of self-directed insurance
shoppers." The two contacts that I sent an email to are the Vice
President of Sales, Brian Gibson, and the
Executive Vice President and COO, William V. Thomas
to complaints. That should make them a primary target of a boycott. If
you want to go further on this one, here is a list of executives of
Quotesmith.com. Complaints to them may have more effect than complaints
to LifeQuotes.
EmigrantDirect.com is a subsidiary of Emigrants Savings Bank. I could
not find any contact information other than their main helpdesk
Emigrant Bank has not responded to
complaints.
Tempur-Pedic is the miracle NASA mattress people. I sent my email to
them at Tempur-Pedic is claiming that
they are innocent little advertisers who don't care about the content
of the shows they advertise on. Which is turning a blind eye and is not
acceptable.
Please email these folks today and add your voice to those calling for
advertisers to stand up to O'Reilly's calls for terrorist attacks on
America. You can also contact O'Reilly's boss and demand that the Radio
Factor (O'Reilly's show) be pulled from the air because of it's
advocacy of a terrorist attack on San Francisco:
Shane Coppola
shane_copp@westwoodone.com
Please spread the word on this one. Remember how well we did against
Sinclair Broadcasting a year ago. We can make an impact here as well.
On November 8th, 2005, Bill O'Reilly publicly advocated a terrorist attack on San Francisco.
From the November 8, broadcast of Fox News' The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly:
O'REILLY: "Hey, you know, if you want to ban military recruiting, fine, but I'm not going to give you another nickel of federal money. You know, if I'm the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium, and I say, 'Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military
recruiting, you're not going to get another nickel in federal funds.
Fine. You want to be your own country? Go right ahead.'
"And if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to
do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in
America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up
the Coit Tower? Go ahead. "
Everyone knows that this is just one more horrible, disgusting comment by Bill O'Reilly. But this time he is advocating outright terrorism against an American city. There is a campaign to nail O'Reilly for this comment. Here is a Daily Kos diary on the subject.
In particular, people are writing the four sponsors of O'Reilly's
program that day demanding that they pull their advertising. I
participated in this. Here is a followup Daily Kos diary that includes
some responses from advertisers, though most of the diary isn't too
informative.
So far the response from the advertisers has been to either gleefully
support O'Reilly or to say "Oh, we just advertise on his show, we don't
endorse what he says." The former deserves an all out boycoatt and the
latter is lame as can be. Hence I come to this list to spread the word
on this issue. Here's the key info:
According to O'Reilly's website, his corporate sponsors are:
* Equifax
* Life Quotes, Inc.
* EmigrantDirect.com
* Tempur-Pedic
Equifax is one of the "Big Three" credit reporting agencies. I sent an
email to their Media Relations contact, David Rubinger
seems to contradict the fact that O'Reilly claims their sponsorship. It
is still worth writing them. If they feel the heat for their past
sponsorship, it will dissuade them from advertising again on the Radio
Factor.
Life Quotes, Inc. appears to be part of Quotesmith.com, Inc., which
runs www.insure.com, a "comprehensive online customer insurance
information service that caters to the needs of self-directed insurance
shoppers." The two contacts that I sent an email to are the Vice
President of Sales, Brian Gibson
Executive Vice President and COO, William V. Thomas
to complaints. That should make them a primary target of a boycott. If
you want to go further on this one, here is a list of executives of
Quotesmith.com. Complaints to them may have more effect than complaints
to LifeQuotes.
EmigrantDirect.com is a subsidiary of Emigrants Savings Bank. I could
not find any contact information other than their main helpdesk
complaints.
Tempur-Pedic is the miracle NASA mattress people. I sent my email to
them at
they are innocent little advertisers who don't care about the content
of the shows they advertise on. Which is turning a blind eye and is not
acceptable.
Please email these folks today and add your voice to those calling for
advertisers to stand up to O'Reilly's calls for terrorist attacks on
America. You can also contact O'Reilly's boss and demand that the Radio
Factor (O'Reilly's show) be pulled from the air because of it's
advocacy of a terrorist attack on San Francisco:
Shane Coppola
shane_copp@westwoodone.com
Please spread the word on this one. Remember how well we did against
Sinclair Broadcasting a year ago. We can make an impact here as well.
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