Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Repost From DailyKos.com
UPS drops ALL Fox advertising, Not Just Glenn Beck!! Updated with email to UPS
by smileycreek
Mon Aug 24, 2009 at 09:52:38 AM PDT
Rich Hallabran, spokesman for UPS Stores, said
today he has not only temporarily halted buying ads on the Glenn Beck
Show but also on the Fox News Channel altogether as reported by AP Television writer David Bauder
Congratulations to Color of Change
for a boycott that has successfully driven 33 companies away from the
odious and racist rantings of Glenn Beck! Beck is returning from
vacation to even fewer advertisers than when he left!
UPDATE: You can send UPS a thank you email at customer.service@ups.com
And while you're at it, please urge them to make this temporary move a permanent one!
- smileycreek's diary :: ::
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This is personal for me. As a business owner I
receive several shipments a week from UPS, and I've been badgering them
relentlessly by email, giving them a deadline of September 1st before I
move to FedEx and make my vendors move with me. It wasn't a hollow
threat, either, inconvenient as such a move would have been. I've
never been part of a successful boycott before!
And now, not only UPS but a total of 33 companies have joined the boycott, including Clorox, CVS, and Sprint.
While the UPS move is "temporary," UPS is still the first company to
remove their advertising from Fox News altogether, instead of just
directing that ads be placed in other advertising slots.
I've never watched Glenn Beck myself (shudder) but I understand that the UPS logo is shown introducing his show.
The fallout from advertisers may well spill over into other controversial cable news shows.
The shows present a dilemma for advertisers, who usually like a
"safe" environment for their messages. The Olbermanns, Hannitys,
O'Reillys, Maddows and Becks of the TV world are more likely to say
something that will anger a viewer, who might take it out on sponsors.They also host the most-watched programs on their networks."This is a good illustration of that conundrum," said Rich Hallabran, spokesman for UPS Stores.
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