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syringis

(5,101 posts)
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 09:03 AM Jun 2018

At least one major advertiser drops Fox News' Ingraham over migrant comments

Between June 4 and 15, IAC was Fox News host Laura Ingraham’s second-biggest advertiser, according to Kantar Media, running 13 ads for HomeAdvisor. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

IAC won’t run spots for HomeAdvisor and Angie’s List after the host likens detention centers to ‘summer camp.’

At least one major advertiser has dropped Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show in the wake of her comments on Monday about immigrant children separated from their parents. With advertising time on the conservative daily talk show down since Monday night, it’s possible that other companies have also bailed on “The Ingraham Angle.”

The media and internet company IAC will no longer be running ads for HomeAdvisor or Angie’s List on the show, an IAC spokesperson confirmed on Thursday. The day after Ingraham’s statements, David Hogg, a survivor of the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, called on advertisers, including IAC, to boycott Ingraham, a reprise of the highly successful boycott campaign he launched against her in April, after she insulted him on Twitter.

During her show on Monday night, Ingraham described the detention centers for immigrant children separated from their parents on the Mexican border as “essentially like summer camps,” further comparing them to “boarding schools.”

Between June 4 and 15, IAC was Ingraham’s second-biggest advertiser, according to Kantar Media, running 13 ads for HomeAdvisor. The company had already stopped airing ads for Match.com after Hogg’s previous boycott campaign.

A Fox News spokesperson said the network was unaffected by any loss in advertising resulting from Ingraham’s latest comments.

“There’s been no impact on our business, and new advertisers continue to opt in for our powerful prime-time lineup,” the spokesperson said.


https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/21/laura-ingraham-fox-news-advertisers-664281


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At least one major advertiser drops Fox News' Ingraham over migrant comments (Original Post) syringis Jun 2018 OP
Stupid Heartless Twit.. She learned nothing from David Hogg. Cha Jun 2018 #1
Yeah Gothmog Jun 2018 #2
Advertisers Should Be Dropping Fox News In General.... global1 Jun 2018 #3

Cha

(297,317 posts)
1. Stupid Heartless Twit.. She learned nothing from David Hogg.
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 09:07 AM
Jun 2018

I had to look up IAC.. Thank you to them.

Mahalo, syringis

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