I got more responses from journalist when I cc'd my email to another interested party.
There was a journalists in Iowa who quoted a politician in his report but also in the same report quoted an erroneous fact about Dean. I wrote to him, but also cc'd my response to that politician -- to inform him that this journalist had misquoted Dean. The journalist wrote back immediately trying to cover his butt in front of this politician.
The point of the matter is that before you call for an all out boycott of sponsors --- it may be just as effective to cc'd the sponsors your emails and letters to CNN, MSNBC, CBS, FOX etc. ect.
When these news outlets go to renew their ad contracts they always paint a rosy picture of their corporation -- there is no one there telling these sponsors that people really hate these outlets.
At least, if a sponsor shows up to renew a contract and has one thousand emails and letters in their hands of people upset with the network...I bet these networks would change their tune.
So let the sponsors hear the other side of the story...the networks never feel they need to change because they assume that no one else will contact their sponsor with alternative information.
If someone wants to start a database of news outlet and their sponsors it would be very helpful.
Every letter or email to the media really should be cc'd to their corresponding sponsor. The letters don't even have to be warning of a boycott, just the truth that as a media outlet they are not serving their viewers.
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