Remember the brief joy of defeating Sinclair's wacko decision to play that anti-Kerry doco in October? The power of the boycott, and the media coverage of how twisted the right-wing noise machine can be?
Do it again. By 2006, I want us to have made major progress tearing down the major pillars of the right wing media. Fox. Drudge. Sinclair. Newsmax. It's time to go on the offensive.
First prongs of the battle plans after the jump.
- Rev up the Sinclair boycot again. We can't wait until they get ideas in their heads again. Assault their advertisers, pummel their stock, make them a takeover target for Soros.
- Time to boycot Drudge's advertisers. I've seen Verizon Wireless there, and now see Best Western. These are major companies advertizing on a well-known purveyor of lies and gossip, and an obvious right-wing hack. We need to set up a "Boycot Sludge" page, starting with Verizon and Best Western, and do the research needed to make a list of his advertizers and other funding. Drive this guy out of business.
- Attack the Fox contradiction. Somehow, the GOP base of moralists that love Fox News don't notice the amazing contradiction that the network version is a major perveyor of slimy broadcast television (as is FX, the cable outlet). Explicit oral sex on Joe Millionare. Fraud on Big Fat Obnoxious Boss. Drug abuse on 70s Show. I'm for artisitic freedom and there are some great shows on Fox, but we need to drive down Faux News's viewership. Time for a coordinated attack of LTEs, blog posts, etc. that highlight that Fox is causing the very moral decay that its Fox News base loathes.
Ok, those are the first three prongs of the attack. Finish the job with the Sinclair outpost. Take out the Drudge sniper. Begin the seige on Fort Faux. If there is interest, I'll keep this series going with more diaries down the road with updates and more battle plans. Toss in your ideas as well.
Let's do it. Take 'em out. The future is now.