We can dramatically increase campaign growth by infiltrating the media. The only change for this is a hard-core boycott/flak campaign against the networks who are most biased against us. I've sent this to dailypaul.com and posted it on the facebook group:
"We can do this by boycotting the media's corporate sponsors. If we can reduce total sales of a corporation by as little as 1-2% in a month, we can effectively force them to reconsider sponsorship of a network. If we can create even a slight negative impact over a whole business quarter, it'll have larger effects on stock prices. On the other hand, we can pledge to reverse-boycott sponsors of any network show that exposes Ron Paul in an honest, non-libelous way.
Here's the plan.
1) We make a call-to-arms of Ron Paul supporters to Tivo/DVR ABC, CNN, and Fox News from 5 - 10 PM. They skim the broadcasts, only to write down the names of national corporate sponsors.
2) We publicly address these corporations, calling for a complete boycott of their products, until they publicly inform of us of their discontinuation of sponsorship, which must be verified over the next week.
3) We publicly address ABC, FNC, CNN of what sponsors are dropping through our efforts, why our efforts exist, and what has to happen before we stop.
4) Ron Paul goes from 3% - 40% in polls.
I hear lots of talk of boycotting ABC, but not watching their shows doesn't do a thing. Their programming is tailored according to:
1) owner's wishes
2) income from sponsors
3) favorable relationship with government and sources of information
4) avoidance of flak campaigns (this is what our current efforts are...)
5) viewership (considered by sponsors as well...)
Attacking sponsors is the best thing next to actually buying them.
I'll start a website to organize it, although I think we can find someone better suited to doing that once the idea is out there.
Additionally:
"I would make a website, where those willing to boycott could sign up and supporters would send the product names in bad tv networks' commercials to the site.
We'd send a notice to the boycotted advertisers informing them of what we're boycotting and why, and what they'd need to do for us to stop. This would include a list of all the boycotters.
Once we get them to stop advertising, we contact that network informing them of why we're attacking their sponsors, and notify them what they need to do to stop us.
If we were to get a site up and notify all Paul supporters (which apparently doesn't take long), we'd have at least 20,000, and up to around 100,000 actual supporters, which is a sizeable market to any national corporation. Given the diversity of Paulites, we'd hit nearly all consumer markets.
As the boycott works, it grows, because it means more media coverage, which means more Paul supporters.
at the same time, we increase local media coverage by growth and activism, until we have a "tier-1" media campaign.
We may never get the coverage that the CFR boys (and girl) do, but if we can get > Huckabee coverage, we have a media platform that actually helps the campaign (no more "You can't win"/"This Week with George ass-packer" coverage).
Just think how many supporters we've gotten from debate coverage alone.
"We can do this by boycotting the media's corporate sponsors. If we can reduce total sales of a corporation by as little as 1-2% in a month, we can effectively force them to reconsider sponsorship of a network. If we can create even a slight negative impact over a whole business quarter, it'll have larger effects on stock prices. On the other hand, we can pledge to reverse-boycott sponsors of any network show that exposes Ron Paul in an honest, non-libelous way.
Here's the plan.
1) We make a call-to-arms of Ron Paul supporters to Tivo/DVR ABC, CNN, and Fox News from 5 - 10 PM. They skim the broadcasts, only to write down the names of national corporate sponsors.
2) We publicly address these corporations, calling for a complete boycott of their products, until they publicly inform of us of their discontinuation of sponsorship, which must be verified over the next week.
3) We publicly address ABC, FNC, CNN of what sponsors are dropping through our efforts, why our efforts exist, and what has to happen before we stop.
4) Ron Paul goes from 3% - 40% in polls.
I hear lots of talk of boycotting ABC, but not watching their shows doesn't do a thing. Their programming is tailored according to:
1) owner's wishes
2) income from sponsors
3) favorable relationship with government and sources of information
4) avoidance of flak campaigns (this is what our current efforts are...)
5) viewership (considered by sponsors as well...)
Attacking sponsors is the best thing next to actually buying them.
I'll start a website to organize it, although I think we can find someone better suited to doing that once the idea is out there.
Additionally:
"I would make a website, where those willing to boycott could sign up and supporters would send the product names in bad tv networks' commercials to the site.
We'd send a notice to the boycotted advertisers informing them of what we're boycotting and why, and what they'd need to do for us to stop. This would include a list of all the boycotters.
Once we get them to stop advertising, we contact that network informing them of why we're attacking their sponsors, and notify them what they need to do to stop us.
If we were to get a site up and notify all Paul supporters (which apparently doesn't take long), we'd have at least 20,000, and up to around 100,000 actual supporters, which is a sizeable market to any national corporation. Given the diversity of Paulites, we'd hit nearly all consumer markets.
As the boycott works, it grows, because it means more media coverage, which means more Paul supporters.
at the same time, we increase local media coverage by growth and activism, until we have a "tier-1" media campaign.
We may never get the coverage that the CFR boys (and girl) do, but if we can get > Huckabee coverage, we have a media platform that actually helps the campaign (no more "You can't win"/"This Week with George ass-packer" coverage).
Just think how many supporters we've gotten from debate coverage alone.
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