The latest from Channel 13 — it’s not good business, my friends
In our dealings with Channel 13, they’ve been pretty cool, as a group, but here’s what we (we meaning various readers of this blog who have contacted the station) are getting now from station manager Chuck Samuels of Channel 13 WHAM:
Whatever happened to free speech? Are we now at a place where people will not listen to or even tolerate viewpoints other than their own?
Chuck Samuels
Vice President and General Manager
13WHAM-TV abc
13wham.com
Rochester, NY
585.321.2210
I was happy to play softall with these guys, they’re a local business to some extent and what not. But if he’s going to pull this kind of crap, the gloves are off.
Here’s that list of local advertisers again. Give them a call and tell them to yank their ads. And tell them the station needs to talk to Chuck Tell the sales manager ddiprosa@13wham.com that you’re doing this. Chuck Samuels: If you’re reading this, leave an apology/explanation in the comments, and we will happily delete this post.
Jack Davis
Email: Jack@JackDavis.org
Hillary Clinton
Phone: 585-697-0915
Email: rochester@hillaryclinton.com
Andrew Cuomo
call: (212) 425-1110
email: info@andrewcuomo.com
American Custom Exteriors and Interiors
customer_service@americancustominc.com
585-723-8072
Fuccillo Hyundai of Greece
Phone: (585) 720-9000
Frontier Phone
1-800-921-8101
Rochester Colonial
info@rochestercolonial.com
585-254-8191
Marketplace Chrysler
585-359-4900
City Mattress
info@citymattress.com
Corporate Telephone: (716) 681-8080
These two are probably national advertisers but I included them anyway:
K9Advantix
Contact:
Bob Walker
(913) 268–2577
bob.walker.b@bayer.com
Friendly’s
Phone: 1-800-966-9970
Wow–that’s unfortunate. I really expected more from him. This is one of the things that the right-wing war on truth (and science) has brought us: moral equivalence. On a matter like figuring out how 9/11 happened, we need all hands on deck examining the truth, not conservative fan fiction that takes our eye off the ball. They’re just not equivalent.
“Whatever happened to free speech? Are we now at a place where people will not listen to or even tolerate viewpoints other than their own?”
Can I assume that this is what the guy from Channel 13 is saying? If so the following comments apply.
Why are we upset when the US government pays for postive news to insert into Iraqi newspapers? You would think that with all the postive things happening over there the the Iraqi’s would be able to right their own postive stories.
Why are we upset when our government pays various columnists and pundits to support a postion? Armstrong Williams and no child left behind immediately comes to mind. There were others as well.
Why are we upset when corporations misrepresent themselves. Name them - Enron, Worldcom, Aldephia, Arthur Anderson, Unicol, Exxon, Tobacco etc… Does Free speech given them the right to say and do what they please? Aren’t there rules that apply here?
Truth is the US government is the public. Disney/ABC doesn’t own the airwaves, they are using the public airwaves through a license they aquire from the US government and through that license the public is served. As the collective public is government, we grant the license to Disney/ABC.
So this isn’t a free speech thing at all. It is a serving the public good and following the rules. The rules simply means providing the truth. The public good is ill served by rewriting history.
A good question to ask is why is a profit oriented business is giving up $40 million dollars to air this 9-11 “show”. Where there is smoke there is fire. What is really behind this?
Just sent Chuck an email. I am curious how he will respond.
[...] (2) Channel 13 Rochester had one of their ad analyses (”Fact or Fiction” they call it) where they slammed a Jack Davis ad as inaccurate. But one of the commentators was station manager Chuck Samuels, who openly shills for George Bush, as evidenced by the replies he sent our readers about “Path to 911″. I’ll put up a link to the story if I can find one. [...]