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BeatingRush 5 - 22 Mar 2012 - Main.ShakedSivan
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| | I know it's not much, but here's a link to a reddit thread with a list of all the companies (along with contact information) that had ads on his show yesterday:
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/qk2u6/do_not_let_up_here_are_the_companies_that/ | | | Why is organizing such a dirty word? Is it just too hard to do? Is our generation better at mobilizing for "Hope" than against attacks on women? | |
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< | I've had "causes" here and there, but I cannot claim to be a die-hard activist for anything. This is a scary thought: if a lawyer is to be an advocate, then why not an activist? Why aren't students at CLS, like me, more moved to do something if that's what they've supposedly dedicated their careers (and a $250K) to doing? | >
> | I've had "causes" here and there, but I cannot claim to be a die-hard activist for anything. This is a scary thought: if a lawyer is to be an advocate, then why not an activist? Why aren't students at CLS, like me, more moved to do something if that's what they've supposedly dedicated their careers (and $250K) to doing? | | | Anyways, I can identify four simple things here: | | | 3. Everyone, including shareholders and executives, cares about some woman somewhere.
4. You and I consume things every day. | |
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< | If reaching out to companies that sponsor Limbaugh's show, voicing dismay that their company would finance a man who defames a woman, does not work, speaking with money generally does. Would the treat of American women boycotting a company send a message? Companies like AOL, Allstate, Sears, Citrix, and Legal Zoom got the message pretty quickly. I bet they all must have some women on their board of directors. Or fathers, or brothers. | >
> | If reaching out to companies that sponsor Limbaugh's show, voicing dismay that their company would finance a man who defames a woman, does not work, speaking with money generally does. Would the threat of American women boycotting a company send a message? Companies like AOL, Allstate, Sears, Citrix, and Legal Zoom got the message pretty quickly. I bet they all must have some women on their board of directors. Or fathers, or brothers. | | | Aside from scheming of a social media backlash and somehow boycotting an outdated internet service, there are legal avenues of remedy. The FCC, which "regulates interstate communications by radio," welcomes consumers to file complaints. Consumers can file informal complaints through the internet for, among many things, "unfair, biased, illegal broadcasts." I am not sure how much traffic FCC's website can handle, but I imagine that if enough people file complaints in a day, it would catch encourage the FCC to act. By the way, the chief of the Enforcement Bureau that handles complaints at the FCC is a female African-American lawyer. | | | All of the FCC information can be found at this (surprisingly) snazzy government website: http://www.fcc.gov/topic/complaints
Any takers for a mass-FCC-complaint movement? | |
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> | -- ArleneOrtizLeytte
[Added Arlene's signature to distinguish posts- Shaked on 22 March 2012]
I actually really dislike it when advertisers pull from controversial programs. This is perhaps especially true when it's someone like Rush Limbaugh, who's schtick has been around for years and who has said far worse in the past. Certainly his sponsors could not have been surprised that he'd say something obnoxious.
Corporate pressure and political correctness is one of the ways in which free speech is severely restricted in our culture. Limbaugh may be an odious bully, but unpopular speech is the kind that has to be protected; popular speech rarely needs defenders.
For more on this see this clip from Bill Maher's show. Also see Bill Maher's op/ed in today's NY Times, "Please Stop Apologizing."
-- ShakedSivan- 22 Mar 2012 |
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