04-07-05 America to Dateline: Tell the Truth Now!

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Blogfest 2005 - Apr 7, 2005

- America to Dateline: Tell the Truth Now!
by Mark Faulk


www.faulkingtruth.com/Articles/BlogFest/1034.html

It's time to put the pressure on. I've had a number of emails from our activists suggesting ways to voice our displeasure with GE, Dateline, and NBC over the postponement of the Stockgate scandal segment originally scheduled for this Sunday, April 10, and then cancelled by the "powers that be". Judging from producer Sharon Hoffman's statement to Dave Patch that the "revised schedule is in the hands of her superiors", I firmly believe that this is a corporate decision. This is politics as usual, plain and simple.

This clearly doesn't have a thing to do with the death of the Pope, Terry Schiavo, or Prince Ranier, in my opinion, and the fact that they would use the deaths of three individuals as an excuse for failing to do their moral duty is reprehensible. If it WAS about the so-called "very busy news cycle" of the past week, then why air a fluff piece (an interview with "American Idol" Ruben Studdard) instead of a hard news story with international repercussions?

According to the synopsis of their ten-year anniversary show "A Decade of Dateline", the reason Dateline has been so successful is because "Dateline's format gives it the flexibility to air hour-long interviews and in-depth examinations of individual subjects, multi-part investigations and follow-ups that stretch over weeks or months". This is exactly what I suggested to them last June: run the stock market scandal story, and then give us "multi-part investigations and follow-ups that stretch over weeks or months". Now, I'd be happy if they would just give us the truth!

This is a four-tiered attack on GE, Dateline, and NBC:

1) Bombard all three entities with emails voicing your opinion (and flood NBC with phone calls at 212-664-4444, ask to be connected to Dateline), put it in YOUR WORDS, but feel free to include links to any of our articles. I have no problem with taking the heat from wherever it might come. Let them know that you will boycott NBC, Dateline, AND General Electric if they do not respond to our concerns and re-schedule the cancelled Dateline Stockgate segment immediately!

Here are people who need to know how they've abandoned Americans everywhere:

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2) Post this information EVERYWHERE, on stock message boards, chat rooms, emailouts, and always add: PASS IT ON! There is power in the internet, it's time to use it.

3) Boycott Dateline NOW, until they re-schedule the Stockgate segment!

4) Flood your local NBC affiliates with phone calls and emails as soon as Dateline begins on Sunday at 7 pm ET, ridiculing them for airing a fluff interview with American Idol Ruben Studdard instead of a news story about the financial terrorism of tens of millions of people.

They have dropped the ball on this one, and it's time to make them pay. Time to get busy, and let them know who they truly represent. And that's the Faulking Truth. PASS IT ON!

Here are four articles to link to message boards, add to emails, and send to everyone you know:

"Dateline, NBC, and GE: LET THE BOYCOTT BEGIN!"
www.faulkingtruth.com/Articles/LettersToEditor/1011.html

"America to Dateline: Tell the Truth Now!"
www.faulkingtruth.com/Articles/BlogFest/1034.html

"Dateline Stockgate Update: POSTPONED YET AGAIN!"
www.faulkingtruth.com/Articles/Investing101/1023.html

"Time to Boycott GE, Dateline, and NBC?"
www.faulkingtruth.com/Articles/CommentaryToo/1028.html