"Liberals Pressure Fox News Advertisers"

[GreenPartyVoter]

NEW YORK (AP) - Liberal activists are stepping up their campaign against Fox News Channel by pressuring advertisers not to patronize the network.

MoveOn.org, the Campaign for America's Future and liberal blogs like DailyKos.com are asking thousands of supporters to monitor who is advertising on the network. Once a database is gathered, an organized phone-calling campaign will begin, said Jim Gilliam, vice president of media strategy for Brave New Films, a company that has made anti-Fox videos.

The groups have successfully pressured Democratic presidential candidates not to appear at any debate sponsored by Fox, and are also trying to get Home Depot Inc. (HD) to stop advertising there.

At least 5,000 people nationwide have signed up to compile logs on who is running commercials on Fox, Gilliam said. The groups want to first concentrate on businesses running local ads, as opposed to national commercials.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20070728/D8QLFIB80.html

[Lost4words]

1. This is Wonderful! Fox might understand $$ are involved.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Yeah, I was surprised to see it was being covered at all

[Annces]

3. I found a comments page on this by conservatives

very funny

http://www.topix.net/forum/news/blogs/TUN4S7N1IQ4VHK6FU



"Of course the liberals don't want conservative voices being heard, just the liberal ones, even though they claim to be so very inclusive. Yes, they are inclusive, as long as you endorse their point of view. As a conservative, I watch my rights to voice my opinions on things I view as wrong being more and more constrained while the liberals seek more freedom to not only voice their opinions but restrict voices like mine being heard. What a bunch of cowards! ""

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Well, my irony meter just got pinned down.

[MissWaverly]

5. Hey, we like conservatives who don't persecute us

But when you are using the airwaves to persecute us by making us targets that is something else.

:-)