March 18, 2003
TV Activism
Much of the last week was spent compiling a database of local ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, and PBS affiliates.
There are still plenty o' gaps, but it's now online, and ready for download (in plain-text form). Once downloaded, one can use it to find contact info or generate lists of contact e-mails, fax numbers, phone numbers, or snail-mail addresses for pretty much any local teevee affiliate (or group of affiliates) in the country.
As most Americans receive their news from local television, we oughta let them know that we want, at this urgent hour, more substance and fewer waterskiing chipmunks, in our newscast.
Posted by Eddie Tews at March 18, 2003 02:16 PM
Comments
The problem is that even if they scrap the fuzzy bunny story and show more "substance" it quite often is so filled with mis-information as to be essentially useless. I'm lucky enough to be able to watch a nice mixture of CBC, BBC, and American news and from what I see the slant is to favour the current Shrub activity and selectively report on the rest. The problem I guess is what do we do to avoid poorly informing the uninformed? -- Posted by: Mitch on March 19, 2003 10:44 AM