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kimbutgar

(22,868 posts)
Sun Jul 7, 2024, 06:59 PM Jul 2024

If an enough of us decide to boycott msmbc and cnn this week because of their negative President Biden

Do you think they’d notice? I am not watching any of these channels next week and only watch FSTV and ABC Evening News because I like to see what’s going on in the world. Otherwise no msnbc for me !

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If an enough of us decide to boycott msmbc and cnn this week because of their negative President Biden (Original Post) kimbutgar Jul 2024 OP
All network tv is off limits in my house. I do t know why people are giving ratings onecaliberal Jul 2024 #1
I've already decided to not watch. I am a old time Ninga Jul 2024 #2
I'm with you Ninga! Those dems in congress calling for Joe to step down are getting calls from me tomorrow. BComplex Jul 2024 #9
No TV for me right now, no MSM jmbar2 Jul 2024 #3
The CEOs of MSM are already seeing their error BigmanPigman Jul 2024 #4
Thx for sharing! So important PortTack Jul 2024 #6
Did that 11/9/2016. I only watch msm occasionally. 33taw Jul 2024 #5
I think there are lots of people whose lives would greatly benefit from doing anything other than watching cable news tritsofme Jul 2024 #7
No. TwilightZone Jul 2024 #8
I'm not sure how many people even watch cable news these days GenThePerservering Jul 2024 #10
I am ONLY watching Lawrence on MSNBC Desert grandma Jul 2024 #11
I moved to Britbox XanaDUer2 Jul 2024 #12
For one week? Nope. Mariana Jul 2024 #13
I always start small and advance to not watching at all kimbutgar Jul 2024 #16
CNN already has very low ratings JI7 Jul 2024 #14
Lets find out how low can they go. LisaL Jul 2024 #15
I think an organized boycott could have an effect! senseandsensibility Jul 2024 #17
Meh, their audiences are already dying Sympthsical Jul 2024 #18
This message was self-deleted by its author Blue Idaho Jul 2024 #19
I am boycotting selected programs such as Ayman, Andrea Mitchell, Katy Tur and Chris Hayes LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2024 #20
I'd have to start in order to quit. usonian Jul 2024 #21

onecaliberal

(35,366 posts)
1. All network tv is off limits in my house. I do t know why people are giving ratings
Sun Jul 7, 2024, 07:01 PM
Jul 2024

To Trump supporters.
The media's Anti-Biden noise isn't an accident:
- CNN: CEO Trump donor
— ABC: CEO Trump donor
— CBS: CEO Trump donor
— MSNBC: CEO Trump donor
- Washington Post: owner Jeff Bezo
- Wall Street Journal: owner Rupert
Murdoch
— New York Times: CEO Trump donor
- New York Post: owner Rupert
ALT doch

Ninga

(8,521 posts)
2. I've already decided to not watch. I am a old time
Sun Jul 7, 2024, 07:05 PM
Jul 2024

activist, starting in the 70s protesting and marching against the Vietnam War. The last time I took to the streets was Jan 2017 to protest Trump. Not watching msnbc/cnn is easy peasy. I’m spending tomorrow contacting Adam Shiff and other D’s speaking for Biden to withdraw.

BComplex

(8,937 posts)
9. I'm with you Ninga! Those dems in congress calling for Joe to step down are getting calls from me tomorrow.
Sun Jul 7, 2024, 07:20 PM
Jul 2024

But I'm also going to be contacting all the MSNBC management and pundits who have gone off the rails trying to lose this election for Joe. Everyone but Joy Reid (and kind of Lawrence O'Donnell )has gone to the dark side, and they're going to get an earful. We should also contact their advertisers, and let them know they are about to lose a huge viewership if they don't quit this "fire Joe" nonsense. They suddenly think MSNBC is The Apprentice? I changed channels not to watch that Apprentice crap, too, before it ever started.

I know bullshit when I see it.

BigmanPigman

(52,133 posts)
4. The CEOs of MSM are already seeing their error
Sun Jul 7, 2024, 07:10 PM
Jul 2024

in judgment when their greed got in the way of their agenda. Ha!

People ARE turning TV ⁰stations off and canceling subscriptions. I have been reading comments on You Tube and every time I see a video about Biden being too old 99.99% of the comments support Biden and express hatred of the MSM. That never happens on You Tube but it has been happening and I have been checking the feedback. This is good!

tritsofme

(18,136 posts)
7. I think there are lots of people whose lives would greatly benefit from doing anything other than watching cable news
Sun Jul 7, 2024, 07:16 PM
Jul 2024

all day and night.

TwilightZone

(27,238 posts)
8. No.
Sun Jul 7, 2024, 07:19 PM
Jul 2024

DU is a niche website. There aren't enough of us to make a difference, plus a lot of DUers hate-watch MSNBC and CNN so they can complain about them, particularly the former.

GenThePerservering

(2,401 posts)
10. I'm not sure how many people even watch cable news these days
Sun Jul 7, 2024, 07:21 PM
Jul 2024

and it makes me wonder if they're trying to gin up some numbers with all of this rubbish.

Desert grandma

(1,040 posts)
11. I am ONLY watching Lawrence on MSNBC
Sun Jul 7, 2024, 07:26 PM
Jul 2024

Otherwise I will be getting news from PBS and watching lots of Dateline, 20/20 and 48 Hours episodes. I am calling all of our congressional reps tomorrow to thank them for standing by our President.

kimbutgar

(22,868 posts)
16. I always start small and advance to not watching at all
Sun Jul 7, 2024, 07:36 PM
Jul 2024

I can always get better news from the late night comedians Colbert and Meyers and Kimmel ( but he’s on vacation).

Though their comedy shows are more truthful reporting than the MSM news.

Sympthsical

(9,940 posts)
18. Meh, their audiences are already dying
Sun Jul 7, 2024, 07:43 PM
Jul 2024

I don't mean people are turning it off.

I mean their audiences are literally dying.

In ten years, we're going to get Tucker Carlson's Frontage Road Corn Haulers followed up by Katy Tur's Constitutional Visitors. She's not saying the founders were aliens - but they were aliens.

What will follow is probably online venues that allow people to self-curate and hermetically seal themselves in echo chambers that are even more ironclad than the ones that exist now. People think Fox and channels like it are bad now? Oh ho. It's going to get much worse.

The 30s and 40s are going to suck in this country politically. Because people will know even less than they do now, but they will be even less aware of it.

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