So everyone knows about the despicable Ayers ad, and that CNN and Fox are not airing it. And that Sinclair Broadcasting Group is. It is a small group, but it owns stations in these areas, including PA, OH, and many others.
Those Kossacks who were around last election, in the midst of the Swiftboat attacks, no doubt remember the massive boycott dKos members organized at the time. We all collaborated and contacted a huge list of advertisers -- local and national -- for each station, and politely but firmly contacted those advertisers informing them of our boycott and why, and the stations themselves. And I believe divested stock etc.
We almost bankrupted SBG. I think we drove their stock down to a few dollars per share, via the advertiser pressure. We can do it again!
Follow me to the other side....
Last time we did not bankrupt SBG -- but our pressure did result in them airing a much-abbreviated version of the Swiftboat "news" -- which totally pissed off the Swifties.
Right now SBG's stock price is only at $10/share. With an organized boycott as we did last time, with the sea of passionate youth (read: money), we can kill this thing now.
As I was not involved in the organizing last time, only grunt work doing research and emailing, is there anyone around who was? Who would be willing to get the ball rolling?
Do we have archives posted somewhere with lists of advertisers that simply need to be updated/modified? At least this time a lot of the footwork has already been done, and we have experience.
If (hopefully) we do an even more organized effort en masse, we all need to recruit non-Kossacks to the effort. So who's with me? More to the point -- how many and which of you will step up to the plate to help organize? I will gladly do whatever is needed, I just don't know how it was organized last time.
Speak truth to power!