You know, maybe we need to send some emails too..

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I get so tired of these special interest groups geting what they want just by enough people making threats. Maybe it's time for us to start setting up some email campaigns of our own and encouraging our traffic to send stuff to the various companies/representatives whatever. I would bet that there would be more people willing to say that they won't boycott something then those that hit the button to automatically send email threatening to boycott something.

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/nov/05112207.html

Family Advocacy Group Succeeds in Pulling 91 Advertisers from Playboy TV Show

TAMPA, November 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Florida family advocacy group’s e-mail campaign has succeeded in deterring 91 companies from advertising on Playboy’s “Girls Next door” television show, but the group cautions that the battle is not over.

“This severe loss of advertisers appears to have influenced the Entertainment Channel (E!) to reduce the number of times the program airs each week from 20 to six,” said Florida Family Association Executive Director David Caton. “Fourteen episodes representing seven hours of air time have been cut from this show. Your emails to advertisers have influenced a 70% reduction in the number of times this pornographic show airs each week.”

On a related note, I had seen this last week and reading the one I posted above brought it back to my brain

http://www.suntimes.com/output/roepe...ws-roep17.html

News item: Of the 23,547 complaints filed with the FCC in July, 23,542 came from the Parents Television Council, which provides handy online complaint forms for members who aren't comfortable thinking for themselves.

So in the entire country, only five individuals took it upon themselves to complain to the FCC in July. Guess that means 99.9 percent of the population believes in regulating their own viewing and listening habits, rather than letting the government decide. Awesome.