Perhaps you’ve heard of Disneys’ ownership and apparent sponsorship of conservative hate radio flagship station KSFO whose talk show hosts include the vile Melanie Morgan and the excrable Lee Rogers. If you want the details of this story please read Mike Stark’s diaries at Daily Kos, here, here, and here. The short version: Disney owns KSFO which employs radio talk show hosts who like to urge joke about the elimination (i.e., murder or death) of liberals, democrats, journalists and progressives.
So what can you do to stop Disney from promoting these lunatic, hateful and violent comments by the jerks at KSFO? It’s easy, really.
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First, google bomb them. Just post the links to the following articles and audio files about KFSO (here’s another link), Lee Rogers (mp3 file — just add http:// when you type in the link: www.callingallwingnuts.com/spocko/theyhateliberals.mp3) and Melanie Morgan (mp3 file — just add http:// when you type in the link: www.callingallwingnuts.com/spocko/pelosibullseye.mp3) in any blog post or comment you make.
Also take blooger Spocko’s advice, the man who started this campaign:
What can you do?
1. As El Gato Negro suggested, let’s distribute the audio clips of violent rhetoric and hate speech to multiple locations on the internet so that the ABC/Disney lawyers will have to find and send cease and desist letters to ISPs with stronger policies than the nice people at 1&1.
2. Crank this up around the blogosphere, if you have a blog link and post about this.
3. Let’s see if anyone in the mainstream media cares. Sadly they have a hard time writing about people who want them dead. I would think that at least the PUBLISHERS and MANAGEMENT at the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Associate Press would want to at least defend their own journalists and photojournalists. To date only the LA Times has called Morgan out for accusing them of photojournalist misconduct…
Some members of the press HAVE covered this. When Joe Conason at Salon did a story about Morgan and KSFO he got called a hack by Morgan. When Todd Milbourn of the Sacramento Bee did a story about Move America Forward he got called a liar by Morgan.
4. Donate to groups who would defend bloggers, journalists and others that Morgan, Rogers and Sussman attack. Specifically I’m recommending you donate money to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Committee to Protect Journalists , and Media Matters.
You can also support the journalists who are doing their jobs and are threatened with death from talk radio hosts.
5. Write the advertisers of KSFO. I have a list of SOME of the advertisers who advertise on KSFO. Drop me a line at spockosemail @ gmail.com and I’ll send you a link to an updated list.
As always, be polite, let them know what they are supporting and how it is impacting their brand in your eyes. They often times have their own stated values that they want to maintain, you may want to ask if their corporate values align with what is being said on KSFO (often times the hosts are the VOICE of their brand in the Bay Area, so it’s not just the fact that their ad is run right after some violent hate speech, but that the person who is reading their copy is the person who is spewing the violent rhetoric.)
I’m open to other ideas too.
I’d like to thank everyone who has written letters to advertisers, especially PTcruiser and BP. Thanks Blog-Integrity folks for the forum, and special thanks to El Gato Negro.
LLAP,
Spocko
The list of KFSO and Disney advertisers can be found here.
Have fun making Mickey Mouse howl!
Steven D
