Proposed Mainstream Media Battle Plan
ABC, NBC/MSNBC, CBS, CNN all have a weakness. They are for-profit subsidiaries of for-profit businesses. And as businesses, they are suffering mightily from their own ideological war against free enterprise. Moreover, they are helping to pull their parent companies down and building public antagonism toward their parent companies. We need to help them enjoy the fruits of their labors, even as we endeavor to spare the rest of the American economy from them.
How? We need to build a list of the advertisers on these networks, and publish them on the web. Then people can know which businesses are providing economic support to the war on free enterprise, and take their business elsewhere. Over time, this will result in diminishing revenue to the mainstream media, and they should applaud our “socking it to the rich”. If we also write or email their advertisers to inform them of our decision to take our business elsewhere and explain our reasoning, that will help expedite the process.
We should certainly write to the top executives and members of the Board of Directors of the companies that own these major networks, and let them know we do not appreciate their company aiding and abetting the war on free enterprise. And boycott their products as well. Westinghouse owns CBS. Time Warner owns CNN. ABC is owned by Walt Disney and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. My understanding is that Disney theme parks are expecting a bad year, because of the economic malaise that their network news has helped produce. NBC/MSNBC is owned by General Electric. This past week GE had to reduce their dividend to investors by 68%, thanks to the economic downturn that their own network subsidiaries have worked hard to promote and continue to promote for ideological purposes. We’re sure that the corporate CEO’s of Avon, Proctor & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Conoco-Phillips, J.P. Morgan Chase Bank & Penske who all sit on the Board of Directors at GE, are either unhappy about the results that GE’s network subsidiaries have produced for their own companies, or are comatose. After thirty years in the corporate world, my bet is that the leaders of these companies are not comatose. Maybe at some point they will grow a pair and decide that maybe the GE dog should wag the NBC/MSNBC tail for a change. And maybe get rid of some fleas.
I am slowly but surely compiling and working my own list of key contacts, and would certainly appreciate your contribution to the lists. These lists need to be available to the general public, so that we can all contact the Corporate CEO’s and members of the Board of Directors. When even ultra-blue Democrat Warren Buffet starts whining about a 96% drop in quarterly net income, when the Democrat Party architects of the sub-prime mortgage disaster start public vilification of the architects of corporate America, trying to manage their businesses, overruling their Board of Directors and determining their compensation, all at the applause of a growing “looter class” mentality, it is time for corporate America to wake up and give a good, hard tug on the leash.
I am thinking that on this and other conservative sites we need to establish a Media Governance group that shares contact information, best practices, sample letters and other resources for the purpose of breaking through the insulation that surrounds the ultimate owners and managers of the mainstream media, awakening them to the damage that their own subsidiary is doing to them, regaining control over the leftist media elite, and returning the Fourth Estate of government to its proper role as an independent and objective provider of information to a self governing public. We can leverage the research of other groups that have documented the bias and abuses of the media, and be the messengers that get that information delivered to the people who can and should do something about it.
White House infurated by Mainstream Media
Sends thugs out to silence "Tea Party" instigator CNBC
CEO of General Electric becomes chief of goon squad.
April 16, 2009 --
THE top suits and some of the on-air talent at CNBC were recently ordered to a top-secret meeting with General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt and NBC Universal President Jeff Zucker to discuss whether they've turned into the President Obama-bashing network, Page Six has learned.
"It was an intensive, three-hour dinner at 30 Rock which Zucker himself was behind," a source familiar with the powwow told us. "There was a long discussion about whether CNBC has become too conservative and is beating up on Obama too much. There's great concern that CNBC is now the anti-Obama network. The whole meeting was really kind of creepy."
One topic under the microscope, our insider said, was on-air CNBC editor Rick Santelli's rant two months ago about staging a "Chicago Tea Party" to protest the president's bailout programs -- an idea that spawned tax protest tea parties in other big cities, infuriating the White House. Oddly, Santelli was not at the meeting, while Jim Cramer was, noted our source, who added that no edict was ultimately handed down by the network chieftains.
CNBC flack Brian Steel confirmed the get-together, but insisted: "The dinner was to thank CNBC for a job well done in our in-depth reporting throughout the financial crisis. As far as our coverage is concerned, we are built for balance and we are unabashedly pro-investor."
Our source retorted: "That is complete bull[bleep] . . . they didn't invite a lot of people to [the meeting]. There were many staffers who were working 24/7 during the crisis who weren't asked to attend, even Santelli, who was a big star for the network during those weeks. Why not?"
In addition, the insider said: "News of the meeting is starting to leak out and people are contacting a number of the on-air people to ask if they've been muzzled by GE."
General Electric owns MSNBC, CNBC and NBC. It was bad enough that GE permitted its mainstream media subsidiaries to help promote the current economic climate of fear that has undermined our economy, in order to help elect the presidential candidate they wanted, and to create an opinion climate in which his radical agenda could be railroaded through Congress. This climate has forced their GE parent to reduce its stockholders' dividends by 68%. GE stockholders have suffered more economic damage from their own mainstream media subsidiaries than they ever have from competitors.
Now, GE has gone beyond simply tolerating the intolerable, letting a subsidiary sabotage the prosperity of the entire company with all its stockholders, business partners and employees.
They have become the active accomplice of the Obama administration to silence its critics. They have willingly become a political thug.
It is time to respond to the new General Electric by boycotting all of their products, from their wind turbines right down to their light bulbs. It is time to write to their Board of Directors telling them exactly why they are being boycotted. It is time to light up their switchboard with complaints. It is time to demand the resignation of Jeff Immelt, and the divestiture of MSNBC, CNBC and NBC. This proud company was the graduate school of American business under Jack Welch, Jeff Immelt's predecessor, and under Jeff Immelt GE has become the protector of the leftist mainstream media and is now becoming the goon squad to force it even further to the left. And to silence the opposition, Chicago style.
Friends Don't Let Friends buy from GE.
The email address for the GE Board of Directors is: Directors@corporate.ge.com
The phone number for the GE Board of Directors is: (800) 417-0575 Mobile (203) 373-2652
The address for the GE Board of Directors is: 3135 Easton TurnpikeFairfield, CT 06828
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