Remember a few months ago when there was a great hulabaloo about Glenn Beck, and how the left was going to force him off the air? Never mind.
I googled “boycott+glenn+beck” just now and got 541,000 hits. But lots of coverage (and probably donations to colorsofchange.org, the boycott organizer) seems to be all the left accomplished.
Four months after major advertisers abandoned Fox News Channel’s “Glenn Beck” show — as a result of Beck’s calling President Obama a “racist” — the network has seen little change in marketers’ media strategy toward the controversial program.
Beck’s ratings pull in hefty daytime audiences — 2.8 million viewers — and the show retains middle and small-level daytime advertisers, according to media executives.
They managed to force big name advertisers (companies who are particularly sensitive to PR pressure) off the program, but they were easily replaced by smaller advertisers. And Fox’s net income loss was tiny, because the big names just moved their ads to other programs on the FNC schedule.
December 1st, 2009 at 12:35 am
North Korean Defector Becomes Star Boxer in South Korea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCCMhYjeRWU
December 1st, 2009 at 2:37 am
Boycotts are made on principle not for financial reasons.
December 1st, 2009 at 3:31 am
Capitalism and democracy in simultaneous action. Both are ok with me.
December 1st, 2009 at 6:31 am
sarah palin is the best of the best I admire her more than any woman in history. I hope she will not run for president because I don’t think the USA has enough Godly people to vote for her and we need to get Obama and his czars out before he complety turns this nation into a global hell. I think Huckabee has a lot of potenial.
December 1st, 2009 at 7:34 am
What’s wrong with calling Obama a racist anyway? His record on race is awful. He even put a confirmed racist (believing that your heritage makes you superior if the very definition of racism) onto the Supreme Court. Add in all the stupid “teaching moments” he’s had and we’ve got a president with a very troubling view of the majority of Americans.
Republicans have thrown their own people under the bus for much less than the evidence we have on Obama.
December 1st, 2009 at 8:10 am
Boycotts usually are very ineffective and serve to make the boycotter feel better.
On the other hand, I would like to see Fox News clean up it’s act, ditch Beck and the others, and get back to reestablishing itself as a powerful news force. Going into the 2010 and 2012 elections, the nation needs a network that is not biased in favor of Obama. Why can’t Fox go back to “they report, we decide”. It seemed to work rather well and Fox was very credible as a result.
December 1st, 2009 at 9:16 am
I kind of like Beck and his conservative/libertarian mix.
December 1st, 2009 at 9:44 am
Those are remarkably condescending. Our Law Lecturer in Chief truly believes in his superior wisdom. But that’s nothing new for the power-grabbing leftist community: They are inherently convinced that they know better than everyone else.
That sense of hubristic superiority and entitlement to rule over us is dangerous for a number of reasons. Those who think they’re smarter than everyone else are easy marks for con artists, for one. Also, their inflated sense of self importance makes them callous towards others.
December 1st, 2009 at 11:27 am
Speaking of infotainment media, anyone see this latest scandal from Walt Disney Corporation involving everyone’s favorite Alaskan?
December 1st, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Hey MarkG,
She’s paying for this one herself. No taxpayer dollors involved.
December 1st, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Tenn,
Mark was being tongue in cheek.