The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Finally! Olbermann Calls For Quarantine of Assasination Promoting Fox News


    So what to do? Your boycotts mean little. Since you are already here you are not watching Fox News Channel. Advertiser boycotts are also of limited value, most make barely a dent in the company. Besides which, an advertiser in this economy which found its sales boosted by an association with malaria, would start breeding mosquitoes.

    If there is a solution, it is perhaps an indirect boycott. It has probably been your experience (as it has been mine) that stores, bars, restaurants, waiting rooms - often show Fox News on their televisions. Don't write a letter. Don't make a threat - just get up and explain: If they will not change the channel, leave the place, and say (calmly) why it is you are taking your business elsewhere. If you know a viewer of that channel, show them this tape. Or just the tape with the attacks on Dr. Tiller, which set the stage for his assassination.

    Fox News Channel will never restrain itself from incitement to murder and terrorism, not until its profits decline, when its growth stops. So not so much as a boycott here, but as a quarantine - because this has got to stop!

    Keith's segment tonight moved me to post this clip to help his quarantine along. Please feel free to email this clip to any and all business that, in your experience, regularly show Fox News. Please also send to anyone of your acquaintance that regularly watch that domestic terrorist network.

    Media Matters and Brave New Films have been working diligently for years, trying to expose Fox for what it is.

    I do not want to be an advocate that squashes free speech. But there is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Fox has gone very much past that line so many times. I agree with Keith - this has to stop!