UPDATE: BOYCOTT THE MSM IF THEY CORONATE ON 6/7!

UPDATE:

Sooo, one minor detail that I failed to take in consideration is that many of us already boycott the MSM. Whoops, so that wouldn't work for us, would it? But I wonder if we are just the few? I wonder about the rest of the Sanders supporters?

In any event a really good suggestion was given in a response to this diary on 'Kossacks for Sanders' by Knotlookin, that I would like to copy:

But I am already "boycotting" corp owned compromised msm lol. Haven't actually watched msnbc or cnn for almost 2 months. In fact I only watch my local news and only to find out what's happening locally and mainly to watch the local weather report. Smile
Instead of preparing for the coordinated June 7 pronouncement that her had won... PREEMPT that move. Tweet that it's a false flag attempt to end The primaries before cali finishes voting... DO IT TODAY.
a boycott won't change anything but relentless ridicule about the upcoming 6/7 media ploy will make people simply ignore it. Do'it on every social media outlet you use. Smile

So, I would like to get behind this suggestion:

Tweet that it's a false flag attempt to end The primaries before cali finishes voting... DO IT TODAY.

Can someone come up with a good hashtag and actually start this?

Thanks for all your thoughtful responses. So, we may have to readjust how we do some preemptive work against this, but some pre-emptive work should be done.

The Tweeting idea sounds good to me, what do you think?

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(original diary)

ACTIVIST ALERT!

We cannot allow the MainStreamMedia, in collusion with the DNC and the Clinton Campaign, to disenfranchise voters on June 7 and to subvert the whole Democratic Convention Process and Superdelegate votes, (actual not presumed,) by announcing pre-emptively that Clinton has won EVEN BEFORE ALL THE VOTES ARE CAST ON THE WEST COAST!

There is a mad rush to coronate Hillary before any more bad news arrives, however we must stand together as Sander’s supporters and STOP this blatant theft of the election.

We need to send a strong message to the MSM that we will not tolerate such a blatant interference in the electoral process by the fourth estate whose job it is to report and investigate not propagandize. They are attempting to subvert Democracy and we must not let them. Their corporate paymasters are attempting to buy this election. And we must not let them.

We have something they want: clicks and tuning into their tv shows… Ratings are their gods… that is the power we have. We must exercise that power and soon and strongly to send the message that they cannot strip us of all electoral power. This is as important and the march on the DNC, because it represents the voice of the voters who have been repeatedly cut off this election cycle.

BOYCOTT MSNBC, AND/OR ANY MEDIA OUTLET THAT CORONATES ON 6/7 and show them what the consequences will be if they try to steal our vote.

Shaun King has made it plain in his tweet:

“Shaun King: Anyone who "calls the election" on June 7th, be it the Clinton campaign or television networks, is knowingly and deliberately going against the very rules of the party.”
https://www.facebook.com/NYDailyNews/posts/10153502492022541

He further writes that “Clinton and media outlets are still counting superdelegates in voter tallies, despite pleas from DNC exec”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/election/king-clinton-media-counting-sup...

Even though the vote is less than a week away, Please spread this word and let us not let the MSM get away with stealing this election. Please twitter, facebook, email, etc. etc. this. Please send it to any outlet that will get it exposure. Please send it to those groups who are doing the March on the DNC. Please send it to your grandmother, uncle…. whatever.. just share this idea, please!

BOYCOTT MSNBC, AND/OR ANY MEDIA OUTLET THAT CORONATES ON 6/7 and show them what the consequences will be if they try to steal our vote.

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I don't watch any corporate media on TV.

Edit : Not even the local news. They put on a Bernie media blackout for most of the campaign, and if they did mention him, it was just like 10 seconds compared to 3 minutes for Hillary. And this is in a major media market with millions of viewers. And they've lied about the delegates.

Problem is with dvrs, I record a show let's say on ABC, then the tv is on the abc channel until I manually change it or it switches to record a show on CBS.

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Pricknick's picture

five years ago. Put up a home made antenna and spend my money on better things.

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Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.

Alphalop's picture

but a boycott alone won't totally do it.

We need to start writing their advertisers like crazy.

Look at the amazing work FlushRush did in such a short time with a relatively small group of hard core supporters.

We can do the same damn thing to the media outlets, we just gotta hit them where it hurts.

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"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me

tourniquet's picture

i haven't watched any US-mainstream news on television in at least a decade, and i have no idea why i'd visit any of their websites when the bbc covers everything here.

in fact, i think the last time i watched any tv news was on sept. 11th 2001, and maybe a couple of days after. it became clear to me how the ooze-markets were going to milk sept. 11th for all it was worth, across the board.

it seems like that's been their business model with everything since then. disgusting.

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GIANT ALL-CAPS SIG

and I recently dumped the boot licking blog of daily krap...if I hear one more rant front that lunatic kos I'll going to vomit, Hope I find what I am looking for here!

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mjsmeme's picture

that need to be boycotted. The MSM has had no trouble so far ignoring what they don't want us to see. The protests at the CNN headquarters never saw daylight on the mainstream media, nor did those thousands of Bernie or Bust postcards mailed out a couple of weeks ago that went to all the major media headquarters. Mess with their $$ stream and they may pay attention. It took a while but the boycott of Rush Limbaugh's sponsors has had a very positive effect on diminishing his media clout.

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Alphalop's picture

I basically just duplicated your thoughts...

Great minds I guess. Wink

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"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me

Thaumlord-Exelbirth's picture

doesn't go far enough. We need to see "Flush Rush" levels of boycotting and protesting of the MSM. That means going after their sponsors. They will not give a single damn if they piss us off, so long as they're raking in hordes of cash from advertisers and sponsors alike. As soon as their income has a hiccup, they will freak out.

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Alphalop's picture

Maybe someone should reach out to the people that formed FlushRush to ask for support for this initiative?

I think it is a brilliant plan, but honestly it would require a level of organizing that I just am not capable of anymore.

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"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me

riverlover's picture

Going after advertisers, more meanigful message, would take a national Do Not Buy strike. How un-American.

Does anyone else self-identify as not a joiner? That has been me, all along. Now it matters, but I am not sure what I could commit.

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Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.

I don't really boycott MSM, I merely don't access them. TV via internet. Seems you have to view to see who sponsors.

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There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.

riverlover's picture

Hi, ghotiphaze. Ain't life grand? I am trying to figure out how to get my daughter's e-sig into a PDF. OMG, way different than 20 years ago.

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Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.

Alphalop's picture

They link all the information for the various sponsors so you have a "One Stop Shop" for determining who is sponsoring what.

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"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me

mjsmeme's picture

It looks like they sell cars, all kinds of drugs, and sometimes Koch Bros bs about how good they are for the environment (which everyone should be boycotting already http://www.inspirationgreen.com/koch-brothers-products.html). Maybe targeting lots and lots of smaller advertisers could have some impact; but its not the gold coins or fake vitamins sellers here, which could be a problem with this strategy.

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I think it's ironic that the more you abuse the corporate media the more they side with you. Trump holds press conferences to tell reporters how much he hates them, and Hillary refuses to hold press conferences at all. Both of them have gotten tons of help from corporate media all during the campaign.

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"We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."

Don't watch the corporate brain washing machine anyway.

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Beware the bullshit factories.

Shahryar's picture

to be entirely truthful I do look in the windows of bars that have Oregon Ducks football on their sets so I can find out the score.

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like this one:

As you may know, some boycotts have coordinated outreach going on directly to MSM via a postcard bombing campaign.

And for personal survival reasons, I've been boycotting msm/tv since Bush years, heh heh Wink

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