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John,

Join Robert Reich and Demand Cable Companies – including Comcast, Charter, Xfinity and Cox – Take Dangerous Disinformation Off the Air Now!

To this day, Fox “News” continues to lie about the 2020 election, the January 6th insurrection, Covid vaccines, the transgender community, gun laws, and violent crime just to name a few.

All of it despite Fox agreeing to pay Dominion Voting Services a punishing $787.5 million to settle a defamation lawsuit that had already exposed the lies and misinformation were known and approved by executives at the top, including Fox billionaire owner Rupert Murdoch.

The reality is Fox “News” isn’t actually a news channel at all.

It’s a dangerous and divisive spreader of disinformation campaigns and if you subscribe to cable TV -- even if you never watch the channel -- YOU are helping fund it!

That’s because all the major cable companies actually pay Fox something called “carriage fees.” It’s guaranteed revenue and helps create their 35 to 40% profit margin. In fact, most of their money comes from these fees making Fox one of the few TV channels that doesn’t care about commercials. Even if Fox lost all of their advertisers, they would still be profitable.

But that could all change, if we act fast. These carriage fees are up for renegotiation right now and with the shocking revelations that came out of the Dominion case and the still ongoing Smartmatic defamation lawsuit, Fox is in a significantly weakened bargaining position.

If the cable companies hear from customers in big enough numbers, they could decide to treat Fox like every other cable news channel and not pay any more carriage fees moving forward. They could decide to offer a Fox-free cable bundle for those of us unwilling to subsidize right-wing disinformation.

They could decide to stop the spread of lies altogether and completely deplatform Fox now.

To be clear, this type of pressure has worked before. Last summer, grassroots pressure got Verizon and DirecTV to stop streaming the One America News Network -- completely deplatforming another right-wing propaganda outlet that helped spread the Big Lie about the 2020 election. Let’s make sure Fox is next.

Join Robert Reich and Demand Cable Companies – including Comcast, Charter, Xfinity and Cox – Take Dangerous Disinformation Off the Air Now!

Cliff

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Cliff Schecter

President, Blue Amp Action

Amplify Good

Blue Amp Strategies
1776 Mentor Ave. #411 | Norwood, Ohio 45212
513.438.0171 | [email protected]

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About BlueAmp Action:

We cannot sugarcoat the current situation. Right-wing authoritarianism, defeated by a worldwide coalition during WWII, was only in hibernation. Over the past decade it has infected democratic societies--including ours. It is as simple as it is terrifying: What we do now will define the future of our country and world.

We at Blue Amp Action are dedicated to liberal, open societies, where reason and science are applied to solve our problems; where civil rights--including voting rights!--are protected for all. We fight for these values every day. Speaking up on our platforms, raising the voices and the political prospects of liberal pols and pundits.

And savvy grassroots activists like you know, just like we do, that we can’t stop watching the people we help elect: after the elections, we have to keep organizing support for the policies we like and pushing back against the ones we don’t.

When the public tunes out between elections and the only people our elected officials hear from are the paid lobbyists of wealthy corporations, our government stops being accountable to the needs of ordinary families.

Democracy never sleeps, and neither can we.

So we ask that you support our work, so we can continue to engage in this fight every moment of every day. So our kids grow up in democracy, not dystopia.

Thank you for your support for all we do! Please follow Cliff Schecter on Twitter @cliffschecter, or subscribe to The Takedown with Cliff Schecter on YouTube, to keep up to date with this battle for the heart and soul of our country.

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