As many of you know, one of the largest problems for the Democrats is a dearth of friendly media, and an abundance of hostile media. This is a problem that needs to be corrected before we can make much headway into breaking the Republican stranglehold on our government.
A solution came to me as I read
this story regarding the extremist Christian right's tactics to destroy any public support for the gay community. Namely, boycott advertisers for any media group that continually lies about the Democratic party or refuses to call the Republicans on their lies, and let them know about it.
For this plan to work, we would need to keep track of which networks give people like Frist, Santorum, and of course the members of the Bush administration a pass, and then track their sponsors. Someone relatively high up in the left would then need to contact a representative from these companies, or possibly the press, to announce a boycott threat. And then we'd need to call for a boycott.
The first part of the plan is relatively easy to implement. For now, we could simply concentrate on the worst and most obvious target - Fox News. Collecting a list of sponsors is also trivial.
The most difficult parts would be to contact the offending companies and then calling for a boycott.
I don't know if this idea has been advanced here before, but I can't think of any quicker way to reform the media than this. Comments welcome.
Edit: Looks like
this idea isn't original. Still, a good idea.