Everyone Here Hangin' Tough Against ABC?

[Dinger]

Poll question: Everyone Here Hangin' Tough Against ABC?

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Haven't tuned in ABC in years.

So it's been easy.

[Dinger]

3. Good For You TCO!

It's proud of you I am!!!

[SaveOurDemocracy]

9. Total ABC/Disney boycott in this house ...

even the kids (teens) won't watch.

We are also new CITGO customers. :hi:

[Dinger]

14. That's Waaaay Cool

B-)

[Individualist]

24. Same here

Even though I'm a household of one. Day before yesterday I drove two miles farther than usual to fill my gas tank at CITGO.

[waiting for hope]

2. What is on ABC?

I have no clue - must be all those vile reality shows. Cable be my friend.....

[MannyGoldstein]

4. And Disney and Apple

I've successfully steered my kid away from Disney stuff.

Since Steve Jobs is the largest single shareholder of Disney (7%), I got my wife an iRiver MP3 player instead of an iPod for our anniversary.

Revisionist history is the very lowest form of lying.

[Dinger]

7. It Ain't Been Easy For A Packer Fan To Stop My ESPN Addiction Either!

Damn, it's tough I tells ya!

[SaveOurDemocracy]

11. character building ;o)

awwwwwwwww ... but ... WTG Dinger!! :pals:

[seabeyond]

5. so far i am the first to hit wimp yada yada,.... but, tues 9pm is ONLY

time i have turned on abc. i watch almost NO tv. but tues i watch boston legal. i figure it is a good hting since so often they are attacking or ridiculing the right with shatner

[seabeyond]

8. oh..... and NO disney. (disney didnt do pirates of carribean did they)

and no apple.

might have to be another ooops if they made pirates, but that would be the ONLY one

[Crunchy Frog]

21. Yes, they did do Pirates of the Caribbean.

Sorry. :(

[seabeyond]

33. bummer. hey.... i can illegal copy a CD from blockbuster and

hand out to all my friends so none of them pay for the movie.... that would show them right?

[Crunchy Frog]

41. Sounds good to me.

As long as people don't put money in their coffers, and so long as you don't get caught.:evilgrin:

[MsMagnificent]

6. They're dead to me

My first block ever on cable
& I ain't missing a single blessed thing :)

[sueh]

10. Still not watching ABC or related channels...

I have a BIG satellite dish system (and also am in the satellite business) and one of the joys about this is I can subscribe to a package of channels that does NOT have ESPN, ESPN 2, Disney, and Family Channel. My package was up for renewal last week and I enjoyed finding a package minus these channels:)) On another note I am pissing off some of my friends who watch the crap on ABC and want to tell me about the new shows they've seen. I've told them to not even bother telling me anything about these shows, not at all interested in them.

[kansasblue]

12. ABC lives again.... come on they broke the Foley story and...

now this...

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2506240&page=1

Electronic Voting Machines: Not Really a Cure to the Hanging Chad
Congress Hears About Electronic Voting Problems As Elections Approach

Where's the love!

[SoyCat]

13. Other--no television/no cable/no satellite (I don't like t.v.)

[EFerrari]

15. I wrote a statement of purpose for the boycott but was interrupted

by a family deal.

I want to put it up at one of those petition sites, but it isn't really a petition but a resolution.

Anybody got a suggestion or more experience with something like this?

:hi:

[EFerrari]

17. Link to draft of statement of purpose:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2178146#2178410

[Swamp Rat]

16. ABC free!

I haven't watched ABC since "Path To Bullshit Propaganda." :)

[Subdivisions]

18. Nope! I haven't had my television on ABC since the airing of

P29/11.

I sorely miss Extreme Makeover Home Edition because it's one of the few places where you can see humans caring about each other.

[EFerrari]

19. My bro is having a hard time because his three girls are Disney

addicts but he's working away at helping them 'dry out'. I'm proud of him, he's a single dad and it's hard for him to take on one more thing. :)

[Generic Brad]

20. Still hanging in there

I won't even watch their news clips on the internet.

[Crunchy Frog]

22. On permanent boycott

until such time as media ownership laws change, or they allow Michael Moore to present a 5 hour prime time documentary of his choice without commercial interruption, or something to that effect.

I appreciate that they broke the Foley story, but it's too little too late.

I am clicking on internet links. If people want to criticize that, then so be it.

[kaygore]

23. Hard as it is--Yes. Democracy means more than

Lost, Boston Legal, Desperate Housewives, and Grey's Anatomy. It is also made easier by not watching the new shows to begin with!

[lonestarnot]

25. What's ABC?

[pansypoo53219]

26. i don't watch any ABC

i gave ugly betty 5 min.
never again.

[Balbus]

27. Well, I did watch the Ohio State - Iowa game tonight...

But as soon as it was a blow-out I started my boycott again.

[WA98296]

28. ABC and Disney remain BLOCKED by Tivo here.

[ribrepin]

29. Hangin tough

Even though I miss the local news. It was the best in the Seattle area.

[hyphenate]

30. There isn't anything on ABC that I

care to watch, anyhow. Sorry--they're just not on my radar for shows of quality and enjoyment.

[ms liberty]

31. Wasn't watching them anyway n/t

[ms liberty]

32. dupe - twitchy fingers! n/t

[mnhtnbb]

34. Just say No to ABC here

[me b zola]

35. Hanging tough, baby!

It wasn't as hard as I thought to give up Grey's Anatomy & Boston Legal. When the fundies jumped all over Rosie O'Donnel I considered watching the view to lend support, but I resisted. :) Love you Rosie, but a gal has to live by her principles!

ABC & Disney are Dead to me! :bounce:

[never_get_over_it]

36. I never stopped watching

Boston Legal and Dancing with the Stars - when this subject was popular because of the path to 9/11 I asked several times - how my not watching two ABC shows when nobody knows or gives a shit whether I watch them or not could make one bit of difference - nobody was able to give me an answer

So I chose other and will be happily watching Boston Legal who bash the devil-in-chief's admin often (as a matter of fact on Tuesday they made a crack about the 1% doctrine) and also Dancing with the Stars - its really the only TV I watch - I enjoy it - and not watching it and denying myself a little happiness - will prove nothing to ABC or anyone else...

Now if someone can convince me that it matters or will accomplish something I am perfectly willing to rethink my position....

[SammyWinstonJack]

38. Boston Legal and Grey's Anatomy for me. I am not a Nielsen family

so what does it matter?

[Touchdown]

37. What's the goal? Forever? Foley story, Diebold?

Not good enough huh? You can't boycott something forever. It never works and it's just plain stupid. What do you want Disney to do? Few can answer that. Every media outlet does good and bad from time to time. One minute Comedy Central is next to God because of Daily Show, next their evil incarnate because of the GOP lovers' South Park. CBS is great when Dan Rather tells about Bush and AWOL, but Nazis when Katie Couric softballs Condoleeza. Disney may not have distributed Fahrenheit 9/11 but they DID finance the making of it.

I will venture to guess that those who say their "holding strong" never watch ABC, and are not Disney fans, or have children, period.

The Apple story is a non-story as this has been hashed out in a previous thread that Manny Goldstien started, and Manny wants to pretend that it never existed, as his ass was handed to him in it. Steve Jobs had nothing to do with PT9/11, has no say in green lighting anything, even if he's the biggest shareholder of Disney. Nobody but Manny and the standard Apple haters thought it was important. Manny used this silly non-issue as a non-sequitur to proudly proclaim that he's found Linux, and was seeking any reason to bash Apple, and evangelize (push his lifestyle on everyone else) on the 72 virgins of Linux ownership.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2177579

Tell me what you want Disney to do, and I'll join your boycott. If it's forever, then it's just a stupid boycott.

[Oeditpus Rex]

39. I don't know of an ABC show I'd want to watch

But if one comes along, I'll watch it.

I fail to see how "boycotting" a TV network that neither knows nor cares whether I watch has any effect on anything.

If you want to organize a live protest — picket a network headquarters or its affiliates, for example — I'll be there. But not doing something accomplishes little, if anything.

I also resent the tone of the second choice in this poll.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

40. I'm boycotting but I think we shoulda found more effective way ....

Something a bit more realistic. On the positive side, we did have an effect on Scholastic.

[RiDuvessa]

42. Honestly,

I'm not boycotting ABC because I don't think it matters. I think that one miniseries is not going to change the minds of all that many people. It's mostly only going to do what Fahrenheit 9/11 did. People who agree with it will watch it and say "Wow, they are right!" People who don't agree with it won't watch it. On the whole, the number of minds it actually changes will be minuscule. The only thing it really does is reinforce the views of the person watching it.

Anyway, you look at any network, you are going to find them showing something you don't agree with. You could have said that CBS was supporting the Christian Coalition when it was showing "Joan of Arcadia" or "Touched by an Angel." I could have decided to boycott CBS when they decided not to air the Reagan series. Generally, it's all going to even out.

Mostly, what it boils down to for me is that ABC has the right to broadcast movies that they think will earn ratings. We have the right not to watch. The best antidote for false speech is more speech. If someone starts to spout nonsense from that movie, then show tell them how it was wrong. In the long run, that's going to do more good then a boycott against Disney. I mean really, what exactly is it accomplishing now? I can't see how it's going to change ABC's policy now.

You can call me a hypocrite if you want, but I don't think I am, because to me, the miniseries was never a big issue in the first place.

[fujiyama]

43. No need for the most part

There's little I watch on the station, except maybe a little football.

However, I do look forward to the "Lost" season three premiere episode on Wednesday. But if it makes anyone feel better, it's over the air (through an antenna) and I saw the first two seasons through torrents, so they don't receive any money from me.

[VeggieTart]

49. Shit, I forgot about ESPN

Well, except for a little football, no ABC channels for me. I like my iRiver, but I wish it had more memory than just two albums' worth.

[TreasonousBastard]

44. I have no intention of joining this childish "boycott" and...

will watch any ABC show I want. There really aren't many I like, but I'm still gonna watch if I feel like it.

If I'm going to sacrifice my enjoyment of something, like "Boston Legal," it damn well better accomplish something, or what's the point? And a few people not watching isn't going to mean a bit of difference.

And what's this bullshit about Apple? Is Jobs a bad guy? Maybe he does have too much money, but what's the point of trying to take it away from him over a stupid movie everyone's forgotten about? Did he finance the movie? Did he have anything to do with it at all? Why punish Apple, which had even less to do with it?

Half the people here "boycotting" don't watch anyway, so where's the sacrifice there? Bragging about not doing something you don't want to do anyway isn't exactly a high point of honor.

[RiDuvessa]

46. Well said.

Especially your last point.

[tammywammy]

59. good post

You summed it all up better than I could.

I never stopped watching ABC. I loves me some Grey's Anatomy.

[Deja Q]

45. It's as much about the sponsors as it is the network

I virtually never watch network TV. But the sponsors pay for it.

I should be writing to Kraft and everyone else saying they should be sponsoring better television...

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

47. Other: Never Planned On Doing It To Begin With.

[cwydro]

48. just a question

but wasn't it ABC news that broke this Foley thing wide open?

[MoonRiver]

50. What's ABC?

Must be hanging tough cause that acronym doesn't ring a bell! :D

[Mutley]

51. I'll be watching Lost when it starts on Wednesday.

Color me a bad liberal, because I don't see how Not watching ABC will change anything. They won't even know the difference much less care.

[guinivere]

53. I'll agree with you there.

It's not going to make a big damn difference if you watch abc or not.
I'm not giving up Lost or Grey's Anatomy.

I marked Other. I am not a wimp, nor am I a hypocrit, and I most certainly do not consider myself a bad liberal.

[Mutley]

54. Good, we can be unpopular together.

:D

[Nutmegger]

52. I will never forget that piece of crap propaganda!

Never!

[fishwax]

55. other

I never joined the boycott. I watch football on ABC and ESPN, and I'll likely watch Lost when it starts.

[bigwillq]

56. I still watch ABC.

College football, the local news, Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune are on my local ABC affliate.
I have contiuned to watch those shows.

[bdamomma]

57. I haven't been a ABC viewer in a long time.

[Generator]

58. The Bachelor: Rome

is gonna be my downfall. We all have our breaking points.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

60. I never watch ABC.

Still enjoy Disney though.

[peekaloo]

61. I shall continue to watch 'Boston Legal'

because I like it.

any cracks about my loyalties and I'm sending 'The Badger' your way.