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Why Tea Partiers Are Boycotting Fox News
First it was the left turn after the election, then Benghazi coverup accusations. Activists have a list of demands for the conservative network, which some say is not as fair and balanced as I thought.
That is what a number of Tea Party activists are saying and they are organizing a boycott to protest the conservative stations coverage, especially what they view as the networks relative silence in investigating the attacks on a diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.
Particularly after the election, Fox keeps turning to the left, said Stan Hjerlied, 75, of Fort Collins, Colo., and a participant in the boycott. He pointed to an interview Fox News CEO Roger Ailes gave after the election in which he said that the Republican Party and Fox News need to modernize, especially around immigration. So we are really losing our only conservative network.
The three-day boycott lasted Thursday morning through Sunday morning, and is the second time this group of activists have gone Fox-free in an effort to steer the coverage. Organizers say a two-day boycott earlier this month knocked 20 percent off of the networks regular viewership. (A Daily Beast analysis of the same data showed that the boycott had little effect.)
A spokeswoman for Fox News did not respond to a request for comment.
A leader of the boycott, Kathy Amidon, of Nashville, declined an interview, instead directing The Daily Beast to a website, Benghazi-Truth. The website, a single-page, 23,000-word manifesto complete with multicolored fonts, supposedly incriminating videos of Fox Newss complicity in a coverup, and communist propaganda photographs, is kept by someone who identifies himself online as Proe Graphique, and who other members of boycott described as someone who works in New York media.
Why Tea Partiers Are Boycotting Fox News - The Daily Beast
First it was the left turn after the election, then Benghazi coverup accusations. Activists have a list of demands for the conservative network, which some say is not as fair and balanced as I thought.
That is what a number of Tea Party activists are saying and they are organizing a boycott to protest the conservative stations coverage, especially what they view as the networks relative silence in investigating the attacks on a diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.
Particularly after the election, Fox keeps turning to the left, said Stan Hjerlied, 75, of Fort Collins, Colo., and a participant in the boycott. He pointed to an interview Fox News CEO Roger Ailes gave after the election in which he said that the Republican Party and Fox News need to modernize, especially around immigration. So we are really losing our only conservative network.
The three-day boycott lasted Thursday morning through Sunday morning, and is the second time this group of activists have gone Fox-free in an effort to steer the coverage. Organizers say a two-day boycott earlier this month knocked 20 percent off of the networks regular viewership. (A Daily Beast analysis of the same data showed that the boycott had little effect.)
A spokeswoman for Fox News did not respond to a request for comment.
A leader of the boycott, Kathy Amidon, of Nashville, declined an interview, instead directing The Daily Beast to a website, Benghazi-Truth. The website, a single-page, 23,000-word manifesto complete with multicolored fonts, supposedly incriminating videos of Fox Newss complicity in a coverup, and communist propaganda photographs, is kept by someone who identifies himself online as Proe Graphique, and who other members of boycott described as someone who works in New York media.
Why Tea Partiers Are Boycotting Fox News - The Daily Beast
