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The MOST effective tool for combating TV censorship [1]
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Date: 2025-09-19
What is reported below IS the best method to fight the current administration’s efforts to curb dissent. Hit them in the pocketbook.
Longtime TV weatherman reveals 'effective tool' Americans have to stop Trump's censorship
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In a Thursday post to his official Facebook page, Dan Satterfield — who retired from Salisbury, Maryland CBS affiliate WBOC-TV in 2024 after 12 years at the station — acknowledged that he had been inundated with messages from people asking how they can best fight back against Trump's attempts to censor broadcasters. And he drew on his wealth of TV news experience to tell his audience that they already had a powerful weapon at their disposal – their phone. "The best way to complain that will have the biggest impact? See if you have a Sinclair or [N]exstar station in your area," Satterfield wrote. "2. Watch the local newscast tonight or some time this week. 3. Note the companies that bought tv adverts. 4. Call them and let them know you will boycott them until they quit supporting that media company." "Trust me. I worked in tv for 45 years. Nothing you do will have greater impact. Nothing," he continued. "This is a much more effective tool than cancelling Disney. We did cancel Disney but calling Joe’s Jeep dealership who is buying adds on the local [N]exstar station will have a BIG impact. Joe doesn’t need that grief. He will find another station to buy adverts on."
‘All politics is local’ is generally attributed to Tip O’Neill but it goes back to the 1930s in one form or another.
National protests are worthy and useful. But it will be at each local level where things will have the greatest impact.
In my local TV market, we have an ABC affiliated station owned by Sinclair that also provides weather reporting to the local FM radio news station. I’ll be sending emails and getting my friends to do the same based on the above.
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