davidinalameda
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Fri Dec-03-04 11:28 AM
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received this email today--hope it's not a dupe post
"LET'S SEE THE STOCKS PLUMMET--->
If you, too, have had enough with the FOX news channel, please read below. This action will make your voice heard while simply choosing not to watch the station can not.
I have decided to make a political statement. I called my Satellite TV provider and asked them to remove Fox News from my television. Since the election I have wanted to stick my head out of a window of a tall building and shout I can't take it anymore but I soon came to realize that there is a better and easier way to send a message to Rupert Murdoch and his blathering bunch at Fox News and that was to simply make them disappear from my life.
I called my cable TV provider and had Fox News deleted from my television. It was simple I called the Repair Department at Comcast and said I wanted to be Foxless in America. I then wrote an email to the following: Reed Nolte VP Investor Relations for News Corporation (the parent company of Fox News) at rnolte@newscorp.com and Brian Lewis, Senior VP Corporate Communications for Fox News at brian.lewis@foxnews.com and to top it off I copied rmurdoch@newscorp.com . I told them that I cannot take the Fox distortion and biased presentation of the news any longer and that they ought to inform their sponsors that there are millions like me. I can't tell you the immense satisfaction I gained from becoming Foxless in America.
I am asking you to follow me in this protest and let it be heard by all that want to control what we all see and hear. This could be a way to have your voice heard-Become Foxless in America. We can start a movement if each of you send this email to all the others you know who are fed up with Fox News."
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MousePlayingDaffodil
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Fri Dec-03-04 11:38 AM
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1. If you don't want Fox on your satellite channel lineup . . . |
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. . . why not simply create a "favorites" list and not include them? That's what I do to cull out those channels (e.g., shopping channels, religious channels, etc.) that I don't want showing up on the channel guide.
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davidinalameda
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Fri Dec-03-04 11:53 AM
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3. but it's good to contact the cable company directly and let them know |
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if they get enough complaints, maybe they'll just drop Faux
it's all about the bottom line and when Faux pisses enough of their customers off, they might think twice about carrying them
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MousePlayingDaffodil
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Fri Dec-03-04 12:03 PM
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5. Mere complaints, no matter how many they get, won't do it. |
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Neither the cable providers, nor DirecTV nor Dish Network, will give a rat's ass about customers mouthing complaints about their carrying Fox News, so long as those mouthing the complaints continue to be customers.
Now, if you call to tell them that you're canceling your service, and that you're doing so because they carry Fox News -- and enough people do the same thing -- then you might get somewhere. But why should one expect that mere complaints, that don't affect the providers' bottom line, would have any effect whatsoever?
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Fri Dec-03-04 11:59 AM
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4. Do that track on blocked channels on satellite? We have |
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satellite. I don't really understand what they level of tracking they do on that system.
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AmandaRuth
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Fri Dec-03-04 11:47 AM
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2. kick for you and your good work |
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personally, i just canceled cable altogether, and when they call and call and call, I tell them that when progressives dems get a "public relations" news station, I will happily sign back up.
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