"One question that has been settled this election cycle is that the people who work for the main stream media are nothing more than democratic party operatives with a byline.
Believe nothing they write or say, ignore them, turn them off and buy nothing from the companies that advertise in their publications or on their shows!"
I was sent this on Facebook, I'm not sure who originally wrote it. Mainstream media usually means: CBS News, CNN, ABC News, Fox News, MSNBC, New York Times, Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times.
Most of these are owned by larger corporations so you have to boycott the parent company and all subsidiaries, right? And that quote calls for a boycott of any business that advertises on them.
CBS News is owned by CBS, so if you boycott CBS you have to boycott
CBS television and its 14 stations
CBS radio and all of its 125+ stations
All CBS online including Last.fm and CNET
Simon & Schuster and it's various imprints
The CW, Showtime, The Movie Channel, FLIX and SET
CNN is Time-Warner. I'm not sure I have time to list everything they own, but it includes everything from cable channels, movie studios, magazines (including D.C. Comics).
ABC News is Disney. If you thought Time-Warner had a long list, Disney's is almost double.
Fox News obviously Fox and Rupert Murdoch owns a shitload of media also.
The Washington Post Co. owns a handful of print media and television stations, as does the New York Times, and the L.A. Times is a Tribune Company which owns media, print, radio and internet outlets.
So the person calling for this boycott is basically telling you no matter how small a business is, if they advertise on one of the assets owned by the above companies, don't buy from them. Don't buy anything from your uncle that advertises his hardware store on local station WKBD in Detroit because that station is owned by the mainstream media.
Are you starting to see how ridiculous this boycott sounds?
Believe nothing they write or say, ignore them, turn them off and buy nothing from the companies that advertise in their publications or on their shows!"
I was sent this on Facebook, I'm not sure who originally wrote it. Mainstream media usually means: CBS News, CNN, ABC News, Fox News, MSNBC, New York Times, Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times.
Most of these are owned by larger corporations so you have to boycott the parent company and all subsidiaries, right? And that quote calls for a boycott of any business that advertises on them.
CBS News is owned by CBS, so if you boycott CBS you have to boycott
CBS television and its 14 stations
CBS radio and all of its 125+ stations
All CBS online including Last.fm and CNET
Simon & Schuster and it's various imprints
The CW, Showtime, The Movie Channel, FLIX and SET
CNN is Time-Warner. I'm not sure I have time to list everything they own, but it includes everything from cable channels, movie studios, magazines (including D.C. Comics).
ABC News is Disney. If you thought Time-Warner had a long list, Disney's is almost double.
Fox News obviously Fox and Rupert Murdoch owns a shitload of media also.
The Washington Post Co. owns a handful of print media and television stations, as does the New York Times, and the L.A. Times is a Tribune Company which owns media, print, radio and internet outlets.
So the person calling for this boycott is basically telling you no matter how small a business is, if they advertise on one of the assets owned by the above companies, don't buy from them. Don't buy anything from your uncle that advertises his hardware store on local station WKBD in Detroit because that station is owned by the mainstream media.
Are you starting to see how ridiculous this boycott sounds?