Hit the newspapers, networks and cable stations where it hurts. Letters to editors and phone calls to networks have proven useless, so let's take down those circulation numbers and Nielsen ratings. A boycott by every Democrat in America is the only way to get news put back into the newspapers. Stop using these tools of the government.
If it wasn't for the internet and so called "Left Wing Activist," the Downing Street Memo" would have never been revealed. While the effort to sweep this historic document under the rug has been mostly a success, we can change the way corporate news deceives America through solidarity. If we, the politically active stop paying for this cover up, then the politically inactive will hear the truth.
If you have a subscription to a daily, call them this morning and tell them to stop delivery. Tell them the reason you never want to read their paper again is the fact that yesterday's hearing on the Downing Street Memo wasn't on the front page. Tell your paper that whatever picture made the front page Rep. John Conyers and his letter with five hundred thousand signatures being turned away at the White House Gate was the only photo that deserved front page coverage.
Send a letter to the networks and instead of begging them to cover this issue. Just tell them you are finished with their product. Watching Cable News is an act of treason because when you turn it on they make money. If we cut their ratings in half and get vocal as to the reason why we no longer watch, America has a chance.
The Steep Cuts Proposed for Public Broadcasting is probably the reason yesterday's little basement hearing that indicted the murderous scumbags in the White House didn't make "All Things Considered." But since it is suppose to be public radio, do what I did, call up and get back your membership money. Losing government money may scare the honchos at NPR but that is just a trickle compared with all of our donations.
From the very first appearance in American Media, The Downing Street Memo was billed as "old news." Meanwhile, the search engine Technorati that specializes in blogs, list 6,512 post matching the phrase "Downing Street Memo" An editorial in today's Washington Post that tells us "The memos add not a single fact to what was previously known about the administration's prewar deliberations. Not only that: They add nothing to what was publicly known in July 2002." This has become the grand excuse of newspaper editors and network executives. It doesn't wash. The issue isn't too much coverage. The issue is accountability.
Watching television news or paying for a newspaper is supporting the burial of the truth. If these people start having trouble getting money from advertisers because of a steep fall off in their product, then and only then, will news comeback to our newspapers and televisions. At this point in American Journalism, one in three Americans still believes there were W.M.D.'s in Iraq. We have lost our Fourth Estate. In an era of "Big Corporate Media" the American people have lost the fundamental right, through a free press, to penetrate and criticize the workings of our government.