A lot has been said about the 9/11 propaganda flick ABC is preparing to air, but all of the potential remedies suggested so far fall way short, in my opinion. The form-based "email to the corporation" (which I've done by the way) is especially lame.
If this ABC travesty is going to be stopped it has to be done from the inside out. Given the limited time before airing, it has to be people inside ABC choosing not to air this crappe as-is. Toward that end, the only way I see to effect that change of heart is to raise awareness, and a ruckus, within ABC itself.
We need to cause a groundswell within ABC and the way to do that in the time allowed is through email. Every major corporation lives and dies by email these days, and everyone, including the guys on the loading dock, have email addresses.
Suggestions so far have been to contact just the 'very (self) important people' within ABC who have already been identified - including their PR guy. Those few individuals will tune their spam filters and the blogosphere will disappear as if it had never existed. That's doubly true when you use a form-submission at a leftie web site. I can almost guarantee that mail from thinkprogress.org and democracyinaction.org are auto-deleted at the ABC mail server already.
No, we need to contact everyone@abc.com. C-level execs, PR hacks, producers, writers, mailboys, board members, secretaries ... I am not recommending either a mail-bomb or DDOS attack (both of which are or should be illegal), but a considered, and personal (not automated) appeal to the only group of people who can get this done - the employees of ABC.
Do you really think that any number of emails to George Mitchell is going to get this job done? I don't. But unlike our fearless leader, I've worked, and I know that if every manager at every level has a bunch of direct reports who are pissed off about something the company is doing, then that's going to get C-level attention very quickly.
Companies are groups of people, and at some level the group has to consent to the actions of the entity or the entity ceases to function. This is one of the dangers that keeps CEOs awake - the idea that the troops will, for whatever reason, simply stop believing and then stop marching.
I would note, for the record, that ABC's email system appears to use the simple firstname.lastname@abc.com email address system. Any simple firstname/lastname directory of abc folks would thus be automatically an email directory. I've already emailed some abc folks, get me the directory and I'll tell the rest of them what I think about this.
My humble opinion: The rabid right has prevailed by being hair-trigger, vocal and tenacious. If we are unwilling to do what it takes to win, then we should all just, as Rummy would say, "sit down and shut up" because the struggle is over.
As they say on talk-radio - I'm a first-time, long-time. Let me know what you think. Anyone care to cough up an ABC internal directory?