Thread: Pro-amnesty groups want to ban us from media debates

Amnesty Proponents Launch Campaign to Shut Down Debate!
Please Act Now to Ensure Our Voices are Heard!

Having lost last year's epic legislative battle over the Bush-Kennedy
amnesty bill, pro-amnesty forces are regrouping and launching an
all-out campaign to censor the media and stop the debate over
true immigration reform. This attack on the media should not
come as a surprise. Having failed at every turn to win the immigration
debate on the merits, pro-amnesty groups now have little choice but to
try to shut it down. WE NEED YOUR HELP TO ENSURE THAT OUR VOICES ARE
HEARD AND THAT FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS PRESERVED!

As part of this campaign, La Raza and other amnesty proponents are
specifically targeting corporate executives at CNN, MSNBC, and FOX and
are asking them to ban representatives from pro-enforcement
organizations such as FAIR and NumbersUSA from the airwaves. This
amounts to nothing more than an attempt to censor the media and
control what points of view the American public can hear. To read more
about these attacks on the media, see this Associated Press
article.

FAIR is urging all members, activists, and friends to take action
immediately to counter this attack on the media!!!! Please contact the
media executives listed below and tell them how important it is that
both sides of the immigration debate are presented on the airwaves.
Tell them organizations like FAIR and NumbersUSA represent millions of
Americans who want our immigration laws enforced. Please use the
email, fax, or phone numbers below to respectfully share your
opinions.

This alert is of critical importance!!! Right now, media outlets
continue to give voice to the millions of Americans who want true
immigration reform. However, if media executives do not hear from you,
the only voices they will hear are from amnesty proponents!!! Let them
know that your opinion matters too!!!

CNN
Mr. Jim Walton
President CNN Worldwide
1 CNN Center
Atlanta, GA 30303
Fax 404-878-1727
Email: jim.walton@turner.com

Mr. Jonathan Klein
President CNN U.S.
1 Time Warner Center 5th Floor
New York, NY 10019
Email: jonathan.klein@cnn.com

Mr. Richard Davis
Executive Vice President of News Standards and Practices
1 CNN Center
Atlanta, GA 30303
Fax 404-827-5453
Email rick.davis@turner.com

Viewer Response Line/Comments
Call 212-275-7800 ask for Viewer Response Line


FOX NEWS
Mr. Roger Ailes
Chairman and CEO
1211 Avenue of the Americas *corrected*
New York, NY 10036
Email roger.ailes@foxnews.com



Mr. Bill Shine
Senior Vice President Programming
1211 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
Email bill.shine@foxnews.com


Mr. Brian Lewis
Executive Vice President Corporate Communications
1211 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
Fax 212-819-0816
Email brian.lewis@foxnews.com

Public Feedback
Yourcomments@foxnews.com

MSNBC
Mr. Phil Griffin
Senior Vice President of News
30 Rockefeller Plaza 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10112
Fax 212-664-2264
Email phil.griffin@nbc


Sample Email:

Dear Mr. (name of executive),

You have probably heard from amnesty proponents and special interest
organizations asking your network to not allow groups such as the
Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and Numbers USA to
be allowed on air as guests. As a viewer and as a concerned
American wanting to here both sides of the immigration debate, I
strongly object to these McCarthy-like tactics designed to silence the
voices of longstanding, credible organizations fighting for meaningful
immigration reform.

Immigration reform is one of the most important issues of our
time. It deserves broad media attention and a vigorous, robust
national debate. And, while disagreement is a perfectly
acceptable part of this public policy process, shutting down debate
through censorship, intimidation, and baseless allegations is not and
never will be acceptable to me, nor should it be acceptable to media
organizations that pride themselves on being independent. I
cherish living in a nation where our First Amendment rights allow
Americans to hear all sides of all issues.

The Federation for American Immigration Reform is the largest and
oldest immigration reform group in America. Over the course of 30
years, FAIR has testified before Congress over a hundred times, and
has appeared on your network and others on a weekly basis offering
fair, practical and effective solutions to our immigration problems.

By attempting to dictate who may and may not appear as guests on your
network, pro-amnesty special interest organizations are doing nothing
less than attempting to silence their largest threat - groups that
they disagree with and who represent the vast majority of
Americans. I urge you to resist this coordinated campaign to
stop the debate.

Sincerely,

(your name)

Please everyone, e-mail all of the above executives. We can't let ethnocentric groups like La Raza try to shut down our free speech and our voices: the voices of the majority of American citizens!

Please join in on the new action alert at:

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-106336.html

Those groups are tripping all over our Constitution . Killing Freedom of Speech with help from the ACLU is just what Corp America wants .

Done!

I'll help on this too (Just now got here... )

MSNBC
Mr. Phil Griffin
Senior Vice President of News
30 Rockefeller Plaza 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10112
Fax 212-664-2264
Email phil.griffin@nbc.com

im sure you left out that .com on the email address by mistake, right??? LOL

I'll get on this later on today after I finish with W's alert.

More divide and conquer coming home to roost.

Just got through sending in my faxes to these people.

In response, Gilchrist called the National Council of La Raza a racial supremacist group that "dwarfs the combination of Black Panthers, KKK, American Indian Movement and Asian gangs."

I think Gilchrist accurately described what I think of La Raza and LULAC as well.