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Another Ad Boycott At Fox

TheBigA said:
It's not a free speech issue. The first amendment doesn't apply to advertisers.
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Actually you are wrong on that. There is a body of jurisprudence which holds that commercial speech IS
protected free speech. It's been decades since I studied that in college, but I could try and locate some cases for you.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
Actually you are wrong on that. There is a body of jurisprudence which holds that commercial speech IS
protected free speech. It's been decades since I studied that in college, but I could try and locate some cases for you.
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That's not what I meant. You should read the article to which I was responding. What I meant is that she has freedom to speak, and the advertisers have the freedom to drop their ads. Her free speech doesn't guarantee that others won't take offense and pull their ads. Her comments completely ignored that she made an abusive comment about a minor. The fact that others saw her speech as bullying has nothing to do with the first amendment. She has the freedom to ruin her career if that's what she wants to do.
 
What it amounts to is that there are plenty people in the public forum on both the left and right that need to learn when to keep their mouths shut more often.
 
Silkie said:
The First Amendment is a double-edged sword as it were.
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If you've ever visited a dunking booth at a carnival, that's the first amendment in action. The guy in the booth taunts the audience, and the audience throws the baseball and dunks the guy in the booth. No one gets sued.
 
Ace Hardware is back to having ad's on Laura's show on Fox News from the article taking a few tweets none were to happy about it. The article is on huffington post I saw it on yahoo.
 
Megatron said:
Ace Hardware is back to having ad's on Laura's show on Fox News from the article taking a few tweets none were to happy about it. The article is on huffington post I saw it on yahoo.
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Ace only pulled their ads so they could not get chewed out during the heat of the controversy, but they thought the heat died down, but nope, heat is still as strong as day one.
 
Laura's back and, after a time, some of the advertisers will be back as well.

Mercifully, the media coverage of David Hogg seems to be abating.
 
umfan said:
Laura's back and, after a time, some of the advertisers will be back as well.

Mercifully, the media coverage of David Hogg seems to be abating.
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Looks like David Hogg hinting at another boycott sometime this week wonder if it will Fox News host Sean Hannity or I hope it's that crazy Alex Jones surprise he's still on the air online and ad companies having ad's on that infowars or whatever Jones has called the website.
 
https://deadline.com/2018/06/laura-...n-fox-news-twitter-reaction-video-1202413091/

Laura Ingraham named in another rant this time its on the Children of refugees/migrants whose parents came "Undocumented"

Fox News Channel host Laura Ingraham has come under fire for comments she made on The Ingraham Angle on Monday, calling immigration detention centers for children, “essentially summer camps.” Ingraham’s show faced an advertiser boycott in April after she took to Twitter to mock Parkland survivor David Hogg. On the heels of the “summer camps” quip Monday night, some on Twitter were using the hashtag #boycottlaura.

On her program, Ingraham said, “As more illegal immigrants are rushing the border, more kids are being separated from their parents and temporarily housed at what are, essentially, summer camps.” (See video below, the “summer camps” comment comes at around the 2.30 mark.) Ingraham added, “The president is doing what we should have been doing all along, prosecuting all border crashers.”

Ingraham was discussing Donald Trump’s controversial ‘zero tolerance’ on immigrants entering the country illegally. POTUS had spent his Monday morning Tweet-storm blaming Democrats for his administration’s policy to separate children from parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. It was recently revealed that nearly 2,000 children were taken from their families and placed in detention centers between April 19 and May 31, after the policy was announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in April.

Over the weekend, millions of people shared the gone-viral photo taken by photographer John Moore, of a two-year-old girl crying and screaming while a U.S. border agent detained her mother.

Ingraham used air-quotes to emphasize her point Monday, “Liberals have seized on the ‘separated children’ and turned the entire image into a political weapon, attempting to emotionally manipulate the public perception of immigration enforcement.”
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But for Ingraham doing rants is normal and also people like her have to look good in front of the presidents audience.
 
Never liked Ingraham. Radio related note. In 2003 her radio show changed syndicators. I believe her show went from the old Westwood One to TRN - Talk Radio Network. Anyway her show was being cleared in Connecticut by Buckley Radio's Talk of Connecticut (WDRC 1360/Hartford, WSNG 610/Torrington, WWCO 1240/Waterbury, and WMMW 1470/Meriden). When she changed syndicators The Talk of Connecticut dropped her show. Then a small suburban talk station - 990 The X picked her show up. A few months later The Talk of Connecticut wanted the show back and was claiming market exclusivity. 990 The X had to drop it. The syndicator claimed 990 The X didn't ask for market exclusivity, which was a lie. For a couple of weeks it was on The Talk of Connecticut and 990 The X. She came to Connecticut and it was sponsored by The Talk of Connecticut, but 990 The X sent someone there as well.
 
These 'boycotts' are doing nothing but driving up her ratings. She made the OVERALL Top 20 shows last week. Not cable shows, the real Nielsen Top 20.
 
David Hogg went after Laura Ingraham again but this time ad companies didn't bail on her like 20 did when she mocked David Hogg not getting into his colleges he wanted to. Which to me David wanted Laura Ingraham fired it is like you give anyone a little they take an inch and they are embolden to keep doing what they are doing. Which I'm getting sick of David Hogg wish his 15 minutes of fame would come to an end sometime soon.
 
https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/bri...tter_2018062216&s_id=5b11b32bf543e61eab1fd9e5

And Another update on this

Fox News Channel host Brian Kilmeade is explaining a comment he made earlier on Fox & Friends.

In a discussion about family separation at the U.S.-Mexico border, Kilmeade said, “These are not…like it or not, these aren’t our kids. Show them compassion, but it’s not like [President Trump] is doing this to the people of Idaho or Texas. These are people from another country.”

“Of course I didn’t mean to make it seem like children coming into the U.S. illegally are less important because they live in another country,” Kilmeade said later. “I have compassion for all children, especially for all the kids separated from their parents right now. Nobody wants to see children in these circumstances and glad they are on their way to being reunited with their parents.”

A couple hours later on her MSNBC show, Stephanie Ruhle went after Kilmeade, saying, “I want to point something out to our colleagues over at Fox & Friends. I don’t think there’s anyone who is saying a life of a child in Idaho or Iowa means less than someone on the other side of the border. And if you are so worried about how every American child is treated, think about the money that is being blown, spent, flushed down a toilet for this political theater. If you want to address income inequality, take the tens of millions of dollars going to this self-created crisis, and put it toward income inequality, put WI-FI in rural areas, workforce development programs, improving the education system.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/f...ropriate-remarks-report/ar-AAzhE4d?li=BBnbfcL

Here is an Update

Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott reportedly warned network producers that they are responsible for addressing inappropriate on-air comments in the wake of recent controversial statements made on Fox programming.

Politico reported Wednesday that Scott met with producers of some of the channel's top shows to tell them to get a handle on their hosts and guests. She reportedly told the employees that they are in charge of protecting the Fox News brand.

Scott, who took over as CEO earlier this year, delivered the message via video conference, Politico reported. Sources told the news outlet that the meeting was an unusual step.

A Fox News spokesperson said in a statement that Scott "regularly leads executive and editorial meetings and she expects accountability from her senior staff, which is what all good leaders do."
Fox News programs have produced multiple controversial statements in recent weeks, particularly in the wake of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy, which led to the separation of migrant families.

Laura Ingraham said on her show earlier this month that the detention facilities being used to hold migrant children are "essentially summer camps." She later noted that The San Diego Union Tribune had compared the camps to "boarding schools."

Attorney General Jeff Sessions appeared on Ingraham's show the same night and pushed back against those who compared the policy to Nazi Germany, saying Nazis were trying to keep Jews from leaving the country.

The network reportedly suspended former Trump campaign adviser David Bossie this week after he told a black guest on "Fox & Friends" that he was out of his "cotton-picking mind."
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