Showing posts with label glenn beck loses advertisers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label glenn beck loses advertisers. Show all posts
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Glenn Beck Needs To Lose More Than Just Advertisers!
Glenn Beck is the ultimate far right propagandist who has made an art out of presenting paranoia as actual information that people can use.He called President Obama a racist because he is quite knowledgeable in that area,being that Beck actually is a bigot!
That's why I'm glad that Glenn Beck has lost some advertisers because of his insane rhetoric.Kudos to them!It's just too bad that he hasn't lost his show yet.But since he is over at Fox News,they won't pull his show until the ratings sink.
Here's more on this story from Reuters:
"Some of the nation's biggest advertisers are distancing themselves from Fox News host Glenn Beck after he called President Obama a racist during a July 28 broadcast.
Geico has pulled its ads from Fox News Channel's "The Glenn Beck Program." Lawyers.com, which is owned by LexisNexis, also has vowed not to advertise during the program, according to Color of Change, an African-American online political organization that has been urging advertisers to stop supporting the show.
Additionally, Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance and SC Johnson all said their ad placements during the broadcast were made in error and that they would correct the mistake.
The controversy stems from Beck's comment that President Obama is a "racist" with "a deep-seated hatred for white people."
Geico spent more than a half-billion dollars on ads last year, according to the Nielsen Co. It spent more than a quarter-billion dollars in the first half of 2009.
A Fox representative noted that Geico is dropping its ads from the show but was quick to note that it was shifting dollars to other programs. "The advertisers referenced have all moved their spots from Beck to other programs on the network, so there has been no revenue lost," the rep said.
Beck's show pulled in an average of slightly more than 2 million viewers for each of its 19 telecasts in July, according to Nielsen."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here.
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