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The 2008 Boycott Fox News Campaign

The 2008 Boycott Fox News Campaign

Target:
Fox News Network and Fox News Network Advertising Sponsors
Sponsored by: 
By taking action to Boycott Fox News and their Advertisers, you are taking an important stand in restoring journalistic integrity to Fox News.  In fact, you will be in the good company of concerned individuals who believe that Fox News should be "fair and balanced" instead of "biased and manipulative."

A great many Americans feel that Fox News has engaged in the intentional deception and manipulation of information in order to influence the actions and behaviors of their viewers.  One example is Liz Trotta's gaffe that suggested Sen. Obama should be "knock[ed] off."  A second is when one their reporters suggested that Sen. Obama's "Fist Bump" was some type of terrorist body language.  In the second example, the reporter is the only one to mention terrorist; the guest speaker does not make this association.  These assertions and statements are unfounded and unacceptable.

So, take action and join the boycott!

Your Commitment:
  1. Sign the 2008 Boycott Fox New Campaign
  2. Avoid purchasing products or services from Fox News Advertisers
Optional Steps:
  1. Write Fox News to inform them of your intentions
  2. Write four (4) different Fox News Advertisers to inform them of your intentions
FOX News

1-888-369-4762 (Press # 4 to leave complaint)
1211 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY 10036
Or e-mail your comments to yourcomments@foxnews.com

Partial List of Fox News Sponsors

Bayer Corporation
Corporate Communications
100 Bayer Road, Building 4
Pittsburgh, PA 15205
phone: 412 777-2000

Busch Gardens
Post Office Box 9158
Tampa, FL 33674
Phone:888 800-5447

Circuit City
9950 Mayland Drive
Richmond, VA 23233
Phone: 804 486-4000

LazBoy Furniture
1284 North Telegraph Road
Monroe, MI 48162
Phone: 734 456-2005

Marriott Hotels
10400 Fernwood Road
Bethesda, MD 20817
Phone: 301 380-3000

Nikon
1300 Walt Whitman Road
Melville, NY 11747-3064, U.S.A.
Phone: 631 547-4200

PetMeds
1441 SW 29th Ave
Pompano Beach, FL. 33069
Phone: 800 738-6337

Pfizer (Viagra)
235 East 42nd Street
NY, NY 10017
Phone: 212 733-2323

Proctor & Gamble(Head & Shoulders)
The Procter & Gamble Company
P.O. Box 599
Cincinnati, OH 45201-0599
Phone: 513 983-1100

Ramada Hotels
1910 8th Avenue, N.E.
P.O. Box 4090
Aberdeen, SD 57402

Miralus(RenewIn)
2710 Thomes Avenue, Suite 700
Cheyenne, WY 82001
Phone: 877 373-3436

Sandals Resorts
Unique Vacations, Inc.
4950 SW 72nd Avenue,
Miami, Florida 33155
In North America, call toll free:
Phone: 888 SAN-DALS

Sanofi-Aventis (AmbienCR)
55 Corporate Drive
Bridgewater, NJ 08807-5925
Phone: 908 981 5000

Smart Balance
115 W. Century Rd Suite 260
Paramus, NJ 07652
Phone: 201 568-9300

Tempur-Pedic
1713 Jaggie Fox Way
Lexington, KY 40511
Phone: 859 514-4757

TransUnion
Post Office Box 2000
Chester, PA 19022

Johnson and Johnson Healthcare Products (Visine)
P.O. Box 726
Langhorne, PA 19047-0726
Phone: 800 494-4855

By taking action to Boycott Fox News and their Advertisers, you are taking an important stand in restoring journalistic integrity to Fox News.  In fact, you will be in the good company of concerned individuals who believe that Fox News should be "fair and balanced" instead of "biased and manipulative."

A great many Americans feel that Fox News has engaged in the intentional deception and manipulation of information in order to influence the actions and behaviors of their viewers.  One example is Liz Trotta's gaffe that suggested Sen. Obama should be "knock[ed] off."  A second is when one their reporters suggested that Sen. Obama's "Fist Bump" was some type of terrorist body language.  In the second example, the reporter is the only one to mention terrorist; the guest speaker does not make this association.  These assertions and statements are unfounded and unacceptable.

So, take action and join the boycott!

Your Commitment:
  1. Sign the 2008 Boycott Fox New Campaign
  2. Avoid purchasing products or services from Fox News Advertisers
Optional Steps:
  1. Write Fox News to inform them of your intentions
  2. Write four (4) different Fox News Advertisers to inform them of your intentions
FOX News

1-888-369-4762 (Press # 4 to leave complaint)
1211 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY 10036
Or e-mail your comments to yourcomments@foxnews.com

Partial List of Fox News Sponsors

Bayer Corporation
Corporate Communications
100 Bayer Road, Building 4
Pittsburgh, PA 15205
phone: 412 777-2000

Busch Gardens
Post Office Box 9158
Tampa, FL 33674
Phone:888 800-5447

Circuit City
9950 Mayland Drive
Richmond, VA 23233
Phone: 804 486-4000

LazBoy Furniture
1284 North Telegraph Road
Monroe, MI 48162
Phone: 734 456-2005

Marriott Hotels
10400 Fernwood Road
Bethesda, MD 20817
Phone: 301 380-3000

Nikon
1300 Walt Whitman Road
Melville, NY 11747-3064, U.S.A.
Phone: 631 547-4200

PetMeds
1441 SW 29th Ave
Pompano Beach, FL. 33069
Phone: 800 738-6337

Pfizer (Viagra)
235 East 42nd Street
NY, NY 10017
Phone: 212 733-2323

Proctor & Gamble(Head & Shoulders)
The Procter & Gamble Company
P.O. Box 599
Cincinnati, OH 45201-0599
Phone: 513 983-1100

Ramada Hotels
1910 8th Avenue, N.E.
P.O. Box 4090
Aberdeen, SD 57402

Miralus(RenewIn)
2710 Thomes Avenue, Suite 700
Cheyenne, WY 82001
Phone: 877 373-3436

Sandals Resorts
Unique Vacations, Inc.
4950 SW 72nd Avenue,
Miami, Florida 33155
In North America, call toll free:
Phone: 888 SAN-DALS

Sanofi-Aventis (AmbienCR)
55 Corporate Drive
Bridgewater, NJ 08807-5925
Phone: 908 981 5000

Smart Balance
115 W. Century Rd Suite 260
Paramus, NJ 07652
Phone: 201 568-9300

Tempur-Pedic
1713 Jaggie Fox Way
Lexington, KY 40511
Phone: 859 514-4757

TransUnion
Post Office Box 2000
Chester, PA 19022

Johnson and Johnson Healthcare Products (Visine)
P.O. Box 726
Langhorne, PA 19047-0726
Phone: 800 494-4855

Dear Fox News,

We urge you to return to the standards of journalistic integrity and stop your campaigns of intentional manipulations and biased reporting.  Your recent segments where Ms. Liz Trotta suggested that Sen. Obama be "knock[ed] off" and the segment with Ms. Hill suggested that Sen. Obama's "fist bump" was a terrorist gesture is unacceptable.

We believe that your news organization can play a major journalistic role in the American landscape.   However, this role will require that you change your policies and live up to your tag line of "fair and balanced."

Thank you.
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We signed the "The 2008 Boycott Fox News Campaign" petition!
# 129:
8:53 pm PST, Dec 4, Anthony Michael Carr, Oklahoma
I will not become affiliated or in any way involved with Fox News and its supporters/sponsors. My resolution is this: To cut bias media out of my cable bill. Fox News is very bias and does not contain factual proof behind anything stated on the network. Fox News is only a network containing opinion, and does not provide coverage containing factual evidence for "cause and effect." Unless you boycott and tell your cable/satellite company that you don't want to pay for this excretion, you will be billed for their "service".
# 128:
9:25 pm PST, Nov 24, Sheila Jackson, Virginia
I am sick and tired of people like Bill O'Reilly spurring their poison. I will never any items adverstised on that station.
# 127:
10:33 am PST, Nov 24, Helmut Kayan, California
I am open minded and watch fox from time to time. "Fox fair and balanced" it is not.
# 126:
4:12 am PST, Nov 17, Stephen Beban, New Zealand
Please; no longer legitimise and attract attention to the Grand Old Propoganda network, FAUX news, and it's fairly unbalanced conservative agenda. Boycott its manipulative inculcation of misinformation to restore journalistic integrity by favouring neutral, legitimate networks with professional objectivity. Thank you.
# 125:
6:19 pm PST, Nov 12, Josh Thacker, Kentucky
Fox News promotes Right Wing propaganda which is often divisive, racist, and homophobic. Fox News is simply niche marketing that plays to a base of uneducated and bigoted people.
# 124:
7:55 pm PST, Nov 8, Michael Aldrich, Virginia
Sean Hannity is the most biased and hateful person in media today. I refuse to watch Fox News because you keep him employed.
# 123:
7:45 pm PST, Nov 8, S. Ford, Virginia
FAUX News does nothing but spew hatred! Three of the biggest hateful bigots are Rush,Sean;and Bill. FAUX is far from being Fair and Balance when it's obvious on a daily/nightly basis that you strickly support the Republican Party! My God, look at your newest members, Huckabee and Karl Rove. FAUX News is a joke and very transparent!
# 122:
9:38 pm PST, Nov 7, Robin Colbert, Oklahoma
Fox News is anything but News! They spew hate, bigotry, intolerance, sexism, etc… and propagate their biased tort as “news”! Companies that spend money advertising on this channel should be held accountable for allowing this “Hate News Channel” to continue their manipulation of America!
# 121:
10:24 pm PST, Nov 6, Donna Heath, Tennessee
I find what passes for "news" on FNC, both partisan and dishonest. You are not a legitimate "news" channel, but a "mouthpiece" for the White House and right wing nutters. Bill O"Really, Sean Insanity, Rush Gasbag-all hate mongers who appeal to the "base"...indeed, the lowest, and most base extremists. Mark Foley, Larry Craig, and Ted Stevens were all noted as Democrats per your "news" channel-an intentional lie. You, along with McCain, ran a pure "fear and smear" campaign against Obama. That you pander to hate mongers like Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter speaks volumes as to your intent and agenda. Your "token" Democrat, Alan Colmes, is a weak representative-and no doubt-intentionally so. I truly feel soiled after only a few minutes of your supposed "news" channel. Sadly, your representatives don't have the good grace or journalist integrity to be ashamed of the pitiful, hateful, partisan baloney you try to pass of on the viewing public. I'm more than happy to participate in the Fox "news" boycott and will be e-mailing your advertisers with my complaints.
# 120:
3:35 pm PST, Nov 5, Name not displayed, New York
I am disgusted with Fox News brainwashing ways in making people into bigots and putting fear into change that is good for this world. And smearing people and their love for war, hate and fear. Bad news is that the person that lives with me loves Fox News and actually started to get brainwashed and started to become almost bigoted now due to them. So it almost makes my boycott weaker. Fox News either needs to truly get fair and balanced or it should get off the air.
# 119:
5:46 am PST, Nov 5, Keith Williams, Florida
I am constantly discussed at the tactics of this arrogant "NEWS" organization, they are part of the problem of why America sucks. This entire network needs to ne removed. Listen to the voice of America. Boycott Fox News and their sponsors and let them know why!
# 118:
10:23 am PST, Nov 3, Nancianne Chastain, Connecticut
I am really tired of all the bull that Fox News put out. Easy boycott for me. Time to get honest with the news. Stop the propaganda.
# 117:
10:39 am PDT, Oct 29, Name not displayed, Florida
This past year your station has demonstrated sexism, racism and homophobia. I will continue to boycott you and your advertisers until you change your shameful ways of delivering the news. And yes I used to watch FOX News from 2000-2005, until it became beyond tolerable where you wouldn't even ask questions of what is now the worst administration in our lifetime.
# 116:
9:37 am PDT, Oct 28, Name not displayed, California
I was especially disturbed by John Moody's blog "Moment of Truth" where Fox was more than ready to jump on the Ashly Todd bandwagon without waiting for the facts to surface. This was nothing more than an execuse to plant the seeds of racism and division. Shameful journalism! Advertiser's money will be better spent elsewhere.
# 115:
6:46 pm PDT, Oct 26, Timothy J Whalen, Louisiana
I am appalled that Fox has the audacity to allow this EXTREME right wing activist on their show much less give him his own airtime to spread his right wing radical views and radical ideals. I am willing to make a donation to have this man removed from TV all together. Get rid of this radical!
# 114:
1:44 am PDT, Oct 21, Can Atik, Turkey
# 113:
7:01 pm PDT, Oct 19, Sean Larkin, New York
# 112:
3:34 pm PDT, Oct 18, Karla Mcduffie, Virginia
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# 111:
2:46 pm PDT, Oct 17, Carlos Esquivel, California
Fox News is not about journalism, it's about manipulation.
# 110:
7:48 am PDT, Oct 17, Troy Kramer, Colorado
Fox news is a Republican news organization and having a journalism degree I can recognize severely slanted journalism in an instant.
# 109:
6:49 am PDT, Oct 17, Kirsty Elliott, United Kingdom
# 108:
6:32 am PDT, Oct 17, Rachel Sherman Pauta, New York
# 107:
4:34 am PDT, Oct 17, Sarah Lafferty, United Kingdom
I do not look to news TV presenters to force-feed me their opinions. I expect journalists to report facts and trust me to draw my own conclusions. Fox is biased, lazy populist rhetoric that I find insulting, offensive and an abuse of journalistic integrity. I reject Fox it's parent company, it's affiliates and its sponsors.
# 106:
1:26 am PDT, Oct 17, Kennith rock Johnson, Texas
# 105:
12:49 am PDT, Oct 17, Name not displayed, California
# 104:
12:21 pm PDT, Oct 16, Name not displayed, California
# 103:
10:54 pm PDT, Oct 15, Linda Jordan, Washington
You are abusing the right to use a public infrastucture to deliver news to the public. I will continue to write to your sponsers and urge them to discontinue advertising on FOX news, and I will personally boycott those companies and their products who do.
# 102:
4:16 pm PDT, Oct 15, Riel Phillips, California
Fox News has an obvious bias towards the Republican party and it needs to be addressed. No longer will we allow fox news to manipulate the media and encourage this bias!!
# 101:
3:35 am PDT, Oct 15, Kevin Smith, North Carolina
Un-American!!!
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