"We the undersigned are sick and tired of ITV and Channel 5 giving her airtime and want her banned from all tv shows on your channels such as This Morning and The Wright Stuff.
Russia's defence ministry has previously suggested MH17 may have been shot down by a Ukrainian fighter jet, and state television gave prominent airtime to people who claimed to have seen a second plane in the sky.
Views like these get airtime at the expense of dissenting positions from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and everyone else as well.
The most recent analysis – Women Play Sport, But Not on TV: A Longitudinal Study of Televised News Media – showed that in 2009 the proportion of airtime devoted to women's sports "dropped precipitously to 1.6%, by far its lowest level in any year measured over the past two decades".
"Labour was angry about the focus on the SNP, the Tories regularly questioned our running orders and editorial decisions, the Lib Dems felt they weren't getting sufficient airtime, the Greens complained about being treated like a protest movement not a party," he said.
Dara O Briain joined the conversation, suggesting that any show that gives airtime to Sara Pascoe and Andrew Maxwell (as Howard's new one will) shouldn't be so loftily dismissed.
While everyone else went berserk, The Daily Show was able to take a step back and wonder whether it was right that an organisation such as CNN was filling up airtime with talk of black holes and Bermuda triangles.
Meanwhile, mischief-making backbenchers, including Simon Danczuk, were given ample airtime throughout Sunday with their calls for Miliband to step down.
The brutal realities of the world are that girl children of African origin and descent are not, by themselves, considered important, and Nigeria is still too-often dismissed as nothing more than a corrupt land filled with fraudsters and undeserving of any airtime.
That pesky voice that tells me it's OK to sleep in rather than get up and go for a walk, or that it's OK to skip an exercise class in order to go for a drink with friends – that voice gets way too much airtime with me.
Not to be outdone, Republicans and conservative groups are buying up millions of dollars of TV airtime, bashing his Democratic opponent, Alex Sink, as a backer of "Obama's reckless agenda", meaning above all Obamacare.There is a logic to such hardball tactics.
