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First it was the ‘left’ turn after the election, then Benghazi cover-up accusations. Activists have a list of demands for the conservative network, which some say is ‘not as fair and balanced as I thought.’

Is Fox News going soft?

That is what a number of Tea Party activists are saying, and they are organizing a boycott to protest the conservative station’s coverage, especially what they view as the network’s relative silence in investigating the attacks on a diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.

“PARTICULARLY AFTER THE ELECTION, FOX KEEPS TURNING TO THE LEFT,” said Stan Hjerlied, 75, of Fort Collins, Colorado, and a participant in the boycott. He pointed to an interview Fox News CEO Roger Ailes gave after the election in which he said that the Republican Party and Fox News need to modernize, especially around immigration. “SO WE ARE REALLY LOSING OUR ONLY CONSERVATIVE NETWORK.”

The three-day boycott lasted Thursday morning through Sunday morning, and is the second time this group of activists has gone Fox-free in an effort to steer the coverage....

The night of the first boycott, Fox News host Sean Hannity devoted a segment to the attacks called “Six Months of Deceit.” Organizers didn’t watch it - since they were boycotting the network - and said that it was too little, too late, anyway.

“We have seen FOX suddenly get very loud about Benghazi after the 1st boycott, but conservatives are conservative because they are not stupid,” the website reads. “We recognize, easily, loud noise which is low on substance. In other words, by whining loudly about Benghazi without the kind of hard-hitting investigative reporting that brought down Nixon over Watergate, what we are seeing from Fox, IMO, is smoke and mirrors; a trick, to fool us into dutifully genuflecting at their altar of their arrogant hosts who throw us crumbs with one hand while insulting us with the other. If we want Fox to get serious, we’re going to have to keep hitting them hard. And that is just exactly what we're going to do....”

Going without the conservative movement’s house organ, however, has proven to be no easy task for true believers.

“I am having withdrawal. I do like Fox News,” said Kevin Avard, a former state lawmaker in New Hampshire who is participating in the boycott. “I have been going to CNN, and to Headline News just to get some kind of fix. I usually probably only watch them once or twice a year.”

Hjerlied said that “if I want news, I go to Breitbart News and Drudge and I can find all the news I need, very quickly...”.

“I used to have Fox on all day long, and I probably watched maybe six hours last week,” he said. “THE MORE I LOOKED AT IT, I HAVE COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT FOX IS NOT AS FAIR AND BALANCED AS I THOUGHT....”

Donnie Farner, 48, works as a chimney sweep in central Pennsylvania and runs a website, Proud Conservative, which sells right-leaning memorabilia like “Liberals Are Friggin Idiots” T-shirts and bumper stickers that read “Ten Out of Ten Terrorists Recommend Voting Democrat”.

He said staying away from Fox News, and in particular its website, is harder than he realized....He...instead relies on Glenn Beck’s website The Blaze to stay informed.....

Among the demands the protesters have is that Fox News “be the right-wing CBS News: to break stories, to break information, and to do what news organizations have always done with such stories:

* BREAK POLITICIANS,

* THAT THE NETWORK HAVE AT LEAST ONE SEGMENT ON BENGHAZI EVERY NIGHT ON TWO OF ITS PRIME-TIME SHOWS;

* THAT FOX SIMILARLY DEVOTE INVESTIGATIVE RESOURCES TO DISCOVERING THE TRUTH OF OBAMA’S BIRTH CERTIFICATE; AND

* THAT THE NETWORK CEASE STRIVING TO BE “FAIR AND BALANCED.

“WE NEED FOX TO TURN RIGHT,” said Hjerlied