Why Mickey Mouse Sucks

ABC used to be a respectable television network with decent entertainment shows and a very worthy news organization. All that has changed while under ownership of the Disney Company. ABC, which is fast becoming a sleazier network than FOX, has sunk to previously unattained depths of dishonesty and disrespect for the American viewing audience. A short time ago, they aired a fictional account of events leading up to 9-11 and passed them off as the "truth." Now they have added two other reasons that America needs to remove them from their media dials:

Reason #1

ABC shut down blogger who criticized violent rhetoric on one of its radio stations

In 2006, a blogger named Spocko began spotlighting inflammatory rhetoric common to several talk radio hosts on KSFO, an ABC Radio-owned station in San Francisco. Spocko compiled a litany of examples on both his weblog, Spocko's Brain, and in numerous letters to corporations advertising on KSFO. He noted that KSFO hosts had claimed to have put "a bull's-eye" on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), advocated hanging various New York Times editors, called for the murder of millions of Muslims, and so on. This letter-writing campaign apparently got results, as major advertisers such as MasterCard, Bank of America, and Visa reportedly pulled their ads from the station.......

ABC Inc., a subsidiary of the Disney-ABC Television Group, apparently issued a cease-and-desist letter targeting Spocko and his blog for copyright violation...... The letter demanded that the owner of the site "remove the content immediately." Soon after, according to Spocko, his Internet service provider shut down his blog.

In the past year, Media Matters for America has documented several inflammatory statements by KSFO hosts Melanie Morgan and Brian Sussman (here, here, and here). On his blog, Spocko featured numerous additional examples by these and other KSFO personalities, such as Lee Rodgers and Officer Vic. Spocko also wrote to KSFO's corporate sponsors calling their attention to these statements......

Reason #2

Glenn Beck becomes ABC contributor
CNN Headline News and radio talk-show host Glenn Beck will join ABC's "Good Morning America" as a regular commentator, ABC News said Tuesday.

Beck's radio show can be heard on 232 radio stations and XM satellite radio, and his television offshoot has boosted the ratings for CNN Headline News, where it airs twice each evening.

"Glenn is a leading cultural commentator with a distinct voice," said Jim Murphy, senior executive producer of "Good Morning America." "At times, he is the perfect guest for many of the talk topics we cover on morning news programs."

Apparently, in the minds of ABC and Disney, hate mongers and right wing nutzoids parade around as “leading cultural commentators” while hatred, racism, and advocation of murder are worthy of protection to prevent loss of advertising revenue.

Pitiful - and they should be ashamed.
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