The Washington Post reports that Apple, along with a couple hundred other advertisers, are boycotting Glen Beck’s Fox News daily 5 o’clock program:
More than 200 companies have joined a boycott of Beck’s program, making it difficult for Fox to sell ads. The time has instead been sold to smaller firms offering such products as Kaopectate, Carbonite, 1-800-PetMeds and Goldline International. A handful of advertisers, such as Apple, have abandoned Fox altogether. Network executives say they believe they could charge higher rates if the host were more widely acceptable to advertisers.
As noted, in Apple’s case, the boycott extends to all Fox News programming, which shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone.
That said, although I’m neither a progressive nor conservative, I have unbridled contempt for Beck, and his bitterly divisive words and antics. Thereupon, I was a Carbonite affiliate until right now — they’re gone.
So, although I have done a search and replace for their ads, etc, if you find any Carbonite links or ads on this site, drop me a note in the comments of that post and I’ll be sure to expunge the offending material.
Where do you stand?
http://fairerplatform.com/2010/03/apple-boycotts-fox-over-becks-bigotry/
