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The timing of Media Matters targeting Fox is purposeful. - Fox News is holding a meeting with

Posted: Mar 13th, 2019 - 7:29 pm In Reply to: Tucker Carlson has just become a must watch for me. - Cheap advertisers are like cheap labor,

advertisers at its New York studios today.

As Politico’s Jack Shafer noted last year, advertiser boycotts are based on the faulty notion that buying a commercial on television or an ad on a website implies that the company endorses the adjacent content when that usually isn't the case.

“Without boarding the slippery slope, we can see the media wreckage that will follow such a viewpoint should it become ascendant. Advertisers tend to be timid, overreactive, running from controversy and conflict, and in times of perceived crisis, their timidity spreads to publishers, which is bad for journalism. It’s easy to imagine today’s boycotts turning into tomorrow’s blacklist.”

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