They won't step down because of this editorial. It will take a lot of people contacting ABC to make them back down. And contacting them may not be enough. Economic action might be necessary, and time is of the essence.
Also, let CNN and the other networks know. I doubt NBC will report it, because they did the same thing to Mike Gravel, but maybe the other networks, maybe C-Span, or National Public Radio, will. Contact whoever is on airamericaradio today. Call your local talk radio host, whether right or left wing. This is a non-partisan issue.
Some contact info for Disney:
Lowell Singer 818-560-6601 (Investor Relations) or
Jonathan Friedland 818 560 8306 (Corporate Communications).
TWDC.Corp.Communications@disney.com.
Here's the link for the ABC contact page. And make sure to contact your local affiliate. Talk to the producer on duty. It won't hurt to contact local advertisers on the local affiliate too. A few concerned phone calls from them can be as influential as a thousand calls from a viewer, and it can take just one email or phone call from a viewer to spur a phone call from an advertiser.
Democracy is far too fragile and precious to allow corporations to tamper with it. This is another example of why corporate personhood should be illegal and corporations should be totally banned, as they were for scores of years of US history, from influencing elections.
Please take a few minutes to make a call or send an email. If you find better, or additional contact info, please post it as a comment.
Ron Paul Supporters-- ABC considered banning Ron Paul. IF you believe in democracy, get in on the action here and let ABC and disney and their advertisers know this is just not acceptable, even if they gave Ron Paul a pass. And get the word to Ron Paul he should speak out for his fellow candidates.
Update from an OpEdNEws correspondernt Deborah Emin at Kucinich Headquarters in New Hampsire:
I am... in the Kucinich campaign headquarters and the news of his being targetted the way ABC is doing along with the way the Des Moines Register has done is also happening in Texas too.
Kucinich is not being allowed to participate in the Texas primaries because he will not sign a loyalty oath that he will support the Democratic candidate for president. He and Willie Nelson are going to court about that too.
He is also going to sue the FCC about the ABC exclusion. It is a shame that the whole electoral process is being thrown into this type of legal wrangling. I mean it is just such an incredible comment about our whole electoral system.
In a few minutes I am going to be interviewing Melissa Etheridge about the refusal of ABC to include Dennis tonight.
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