Several blogs have covered the recent airing by a local FOX affiliate of a fluff piece pumping up White Supremacist cite stormfront.org.
Think Progress has a transcript and video:
It's a web site with everything from dating advice and homemaking threads, to discussion boards that focus on news that white activists want to know. Stormfront.org is a web site founded on the belief that the white race is a dying race.
One member says, "we really are just white folks that deeply care about preserving a future for our progeny."
There are more than 65,000 members, and since Stormfront started in 1995 there have been more than 2,000,000 posts. Members live in all parts of the world, with close to 3,000 in and around South Carolina.
And it gets worse from there.
In comments on one of the Think Progress threads, one reader has a suggestion:
I wonder how FOX Carolina, whose phone number is (864) 288-2100, would feel if people around the country started flooding them with angry phone calls?
I'm also curious how they would react to people e-mailing their reporters at the following e-mail addresses:
diana.watson@foxcarolina.com
michael.smith@foxcarolina.com
tami.birckner@foxcarolina.com
kevin.holden@foxcarolina.com
jennifer.phillips@foxcarolina.com
jillian.simmons@foxcarolina.com
jamie.guirola@foxcarolina.com
lidia.stmark@foxcarolina.com
Their General Sales Manager, Terry Conway (phone: (864) 213-2117, fax: (864) 297-0728, email: terry.conway@foxcarolina.com) might also be curious to hear people's opinions about how their coverage of white supremacists could effect advertising revenues.
I'd like to add a few contacts to this list. FOX Carolina competes with local ABC, NBC and CBS affiliates. No doubt these affiliates would love to embarass their competition with a news story about FOX's love affair with the KKK. You can contact the affilates' assignment editors at the following e-mails:
ABC: Mike Thornhill, news@wlos.com
CBS: Russ Bradley, assignmentdesk@wspa.com
NBC: Kim Deal, kdeal@hearst.com