Keep the Media OFF/TV! Olberman, Matthews the rest...they've reneged

[KoKo]

and there's a "Lock Down."

Don't be suckered into their "back and forth" announcements about covering the Campaign Problems...Just "tune 'em out and keep working to make sure that Vote Fraud...or "Glitches" are exposed.

It will be a "cold day in hell" before the media reports anything favorable to us.

But, they love to keep us "guessing" it seems with these "on again...off again" reports.

The MEDIA today .......most of it works for Corporations. They Love Bush...they aren't going to give us Shit...so get over it. We are dead to them. They have low ratings but don't care..because they have millions of dollar contracts.

Just like our CEO's....they don't have to have their performance rated they just have to "shill for Bush" to get paid. :-(

[graywarrior]

1. Thanks. I hate them. I won't watch them.

[KT2000]

3. You are right

they have given us crumbs to keep us tuning in - only to be smacked down with another swift boat diatribe etc.
they are really playing and that has to stop.

[hollywood926]

2. I agree...I get annoyed every time I hear...

someone say "I just saw ____ on CNN." Why are you watching CNN??? These are the hacks responsible for getting this loon re-elected and not questioning a damn thing he has done from day one.

Go ahead. Keep watching them. Nothing will ever change.

[Ducks In A Row]

4. It's really sad about Olbermann because he was the fair one

too bad he didn't want to risk his job.

Hey Olbermann, it's not so bad being unemployed once you get ued to it.

[KoKo]

9. He might pull through...but it's all about ratings and salary and putting

"fingers in the wind to see which way it's blowing" the way "Tweety" does.

But, that was before the Chimp declared himself the Ruler of Rome (America). We need to know that even folks who are with us in heart and spirit...have to make money and have their "careers" on the line for the big bucks they make with their media contracts.

They have littl loyalty to us...when the "Ratings" go down...they will listen a little...When the ratings are "non-existent" the Advertisers start to balk and they will listen more.

It remains to be seen if the "supposed half of the USA who "supposedly voted" for Chimp can drive the spending that the Advertisers demand when they "buy time" on these shows to "hump their stocks and sell their wares" to unsuspecting "half of America."

I'm keeping it TURNED OFF...I'VE HAD ENOUGH...they aren't going to sucker me one more time! :puke: to the Corporate Whore Media who chases after Fox News ratings instead of creating ratings of their own based on "BALANCE."

[Pepperbelly]

5. I'm watching the Simpsons ...

and C-SPAN and the internets for news.

[Cleita]

6. I mostly have been watching the Sci-fi Channel.

It makes more sense to me than the news these days.

[caledesi]

7. My "cable shows" have been blacked out since Nov 3rd. The

only exceptions are:
Keith Olberman
Frontline
Now

[West Coast Democrat]

8. This is the media's response to the fraud story:

Poll: Voters Relieved by Decisive Election

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=536&e=6&u=/ap/20041108/ap_on_el_pr/election_ap_poll


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They're pushing stories like this, the "moral issues" story and the "mandate" stories.

[Samantha]

10. Do you mind if I ask how you know Oberman reneged?

The story was on his website when I left work one hour ago. I sent the link to a co-worker. Maybe something has been posted here today that I have missed. Just asking (and I am going to go check the threads now).

[KoKo]

11. Samantha it's been "back and forth" all day. So, I don't trust any of it

right now. If any DU wants to watch it...I'm sure they will post if it was good back here on DU. I won't turn it on.

Good Luck if you decide to watch...I just won't.

[librechik]

16. story still up on main page at MSNBC COuntdown

"where does this tin-foil story belong?"

[flordehinojos]

12. It will be a cold day in hell before I watch CNN, MSNBC, & other news

channels again.

I am reading books, visiting the internetS and watching Paula Deen's Southern Cooking, Ellen DeGeneres, TMC or AMC ... anything BUT the news channels.

I HOPE enough people are doing the same. I hope their ratings goDOWN!

:)

[tridim]

13. I simply don't get it

Regardless if they believe the charges, this fraud thing is still news. When there is news, they're supposed to report it.

[Eloriel]

17. Uh, those were the old rules, the ones from "the good old days"

Not the new rules that started under George Bush the 2nd's first reign.

[KoKo]

19. Look up Nazi's and Third Reich...Google it.. it will give you the answer

to what you say...if you still don't believe that Americans could turn against each other..Google search: Civil War.

:shrug:

[Shopaholic]

14. Keith's doing the story--

I just got my Countdown Newsletter-it was titled, "Did your vote count?"

[KoKo]

21. Well...give us what he said...is it what you know from reading here or is

it a "snip and a kiss?"

[KoKo]

23. Did Keith give us a reson to tune back in? .................?????? (eom)

[Rose Siding]

29. You should really read this thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2644674

;)

[high density]

15. I'll watch whatever I want

Thank you. All this boycott talk is starting to sound like some sort of cult.

[KoKo]

18. Absolutely...do what you want...but don't deny me my right to support

those of us who know what the "MEDIA" (Medusa) is all about...

But, don't come whining here when Tweety or the rest, aren't talking about this Election. Do you see or hear what I'm saying, here?

[sonicx]

25. calm down. nobody here is watching tweety. Olberman is a quality show

and was never being boycotted. and if people want to watch Tweety and whine, there's really nothing you can do about it.

[deacon]

20. Starve The Beast n/t

[KoKo]

22. Read DU.....and the rest...then we need ESCAPISM...I don't find it on TV..

have to go into my VHS/DVD file...to find something that is "tangible."

[sonicx]

24. Olberman is a good guy. he was never being boycotted.

[Pallas180]

26. OLBERMAN JUST DID A GOOD JOB ON THE RIGGED VOTING

EVEN MENTIONED RIGGED...

SO COOL IT ON OLBERMANN KOKO

BEV MAY NOT HAVE GOTTEN ON PERSONALLY -

SOME OTHER GAL DID, AND SO DID CONYERS ON INVESTIGATING THE VOTING

[Beam Me Up]

27. I turned off my TV after 2000 FRAUD and DO NOT MISS IT ONE BIT

I absolutely DETEST the emperor of smirk * and did so long before he was INSTALLED in the White House the first time. Every time I saw his face on the TV I would start throwing things at it. Finally, after the selection, I'd had it. NO MORE TV FOR ME. I made that promise to myself and I've kept it.

Because I'd ALREADY begun to get my information from various lists and groups and sources such as here at DU, I WAS ANTICIPATING A 9/11 TYPE EVENT. I didn't know 'what' precisely was going to happen but it was OBVIOUS to me that this country was being slowly nudged toward a more blatantly fascist society. Barbed wire around high-schools "to protect the children" (read: get them used to being in detention under constant surveillance) was one big tip off to me. The war on 'some drugs' was another--and the way that was leading toward further and further disenfranchisement of communities of color.

So, it had already become clear TO ME that their (right wing fascist) ultimate agenda was TO CREATE CONDITIONS THAT WOULD LEAD TO THE UTTER DESTRUCTION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. It was clear to me that they would need an 'event' of some sort to actualize their agenda. In the years leading up to 2000, I'd already watched how 'terror' was being played to us. WACO, the Murrah building, the first WTC bombing and others--all this was 'lead up' and preparation for 9/11.

On the actual day of 9/11 I broke my promise and watched on TV as the horror unfolded. But I knew from the first moment that what I was watching was a SPECTACLE, a murderous spectacle, being performed for the sole purpose of moving this society toward a fascist and militarist footing.

And now here we are. They stole an election in 2000, in 2002, and again in 2004. Now many of you are beginning to see what I have been seeing all along. OUR GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN HIJACKED BY A BUNCH OF FASCIST THUGS. This is not an overstatement.

The question is, what are WE going to do about it? And by "WE" here, I do not mean only those of us here on DU. We DUers are the fortunate ones. At least many of us have SOME idea what the hell is going on. The real WE that I question is the people of the United States--all of us. Because, believe it or not, WE are all in this together. Either we come to terms with the unprecidented situation in which we find ourselves and bring about a change that can only be considered REVOLUTIONARY from the point of view of 'business as usual' or we do not. One thing I am sure of, ONLY ABRUPT SOCIAL CHANGE CAN SAVE US NOW. No more waiting till the next election cycle. Get it: THERE WILL LIKELY NOT BE ANOTHER ELECTION CYCLE IN THIS COUNTRY. And even if there is, if we do not have control of the electoral system and can not verify the election, and if we do not have a media that reports accurately what is going on IN OUR NAME, then what is the point of having an 'election' at all?

I'm ranting and I apologize. I'm just sick to death about all this. We have SO MUCH POTENTIAL FOR A BETTER WORLD. Why or why are we letting these CRIMINALS rough-shod us into a future that only THEY want--and even they can't seriously want it.

BMU

[thedailyshow]

28. true. that's why i watch the dailyshow!

[KoKo]

30. Kick.....