Boycott Media for 7 days

Back in the late sixties, I was immersed in fighting bussing in Pontiac Mich.
The Pontiac newspaper, (I think it was called the Free Press) was as leftist back then as the newspapers are today. We only got the black or left side of the bussing fight.
I was one of the original organizers of a group called “NAG” or National Action Group, eventually headed up by Irene McCabe. We COULD NOT get our side of the issue in front of the complacent masses. We went door to door, trying to get the word out that bussing was going to happen, but we were not believed. People laughed at us. We had regular meetings to plan strategies but at the most, we would get about 20 people to show up. All thought that the idea of bussing was so ridiculous that it could not happen. They believed that the courts would rule against it!
Well, as you know, it did happen! The following meeting, (after the judicial decision to allow bussing), became a frenzy of hundreds of concerned parents showing up at our little meeting place. There was no room for so many angry citizens! We needed to find a larger meeting place but it was too late!
There were fights in the mixed schools, angry parents, mobs, attacks on us and attacks in the schools against our children. It was awful and the newspapers made it sound like a racial situation instead of an issue of putting our little children on a bus and sending them miles from their homes. Not many couples had 2 cars back then, so if your little one got sick or forgot lunch, too bad.
My husband and I rented our home based on the school system and the fact that I could stand at the end of our block and watch my baby girl walk to kindergarten.
NAG got so frustrated at the lack of news on our side of the issue that we took drastic steps. We boycotted the newspaper. The word spread like wild fire to stop the paper until they agreed to tell our side on the front page. We also picketed and many would not cross the picket line.
After about a week or two, (that was a long time ago and my old brain just can’t remember specific details), the newspaper came to NAG and asked what we wanted to get the presses rolling again. We said we wanted equal time with the NAACP and black leaders.
(By the way, some of the “leaders” back then, arousing anger and attacks were Dick Gregory, Bill Cosby (!) and Martin Luther King!)
The newspaper caved to our demands and put a dividing color line down the center of the front page, (I cannot remember if it was red or green) and put both sides of the issue and we released the boycott.
The reason I am relating this story to you is to let you know the value of a boycott. I think we would cause a major problem for our local newspapers if we put our subscriptions on vacation-hold for 7 days, November 23-November 30th. Just think, that is during the biggest advertizing time of the year! Remember, November 27th is the biggest shopping day of the year!
Many people, including my husband, enjoy the sports and local events so they do not want to stop their local newspapers for good but maybe if we hurt them at a crucial time they would wake up to the unfairness of their left wing agenda and start vetting lefty’s that the Pompous POTUS is surrounding himself with. Maybe the thrills up their legs at the sight of him would send shivers down their spines when all advertizing went away!
Please, put your news papers on vacation for just seven important days, November 23rd through November 30th!!!!
Hmmm, lets add ABC,NBC,CBS AND CNN!!!!!!!