Multiple Companies Pull Ads From Laura Ingraham’s Show After Host Mocked David Hogg (UPDATED)
Following Laura Ingraham criticism of a survivor of the Parkland school shooting, multiple companies have decided to pull their ads from her primetime Fox News show.
Earlier this week, the Fox News host went after student gun control activist David Hogg by mocking him for not getting accepted by some of the colleges to which he applied. Ingraham’s Twitter shade drew significant outrage from those who accused her of slamming Hogg personally rather than expressing disagreement with his political position.
Hogg responded to Ingraham by calling for a boycott against the biggest businesses who run ads on her show. Nutrish was among those Hogg called out, and the Rachael Ray-created pet food brand decided to take their commercials off Ingraham’s show.
We are in the process of removing our ads from Laura Ingraham’s program.
— Nutrish (@Nutrish) March 29, 2018
UPDATE: 1:30 p.m. EST: TripAdvisor has also decided to drop Ingraham.
??? TripAdvisor Dumps Laura Ingraham ???
“In our view, these statements focused on a high school student, cross the line of decency. As such, we have made a decision to stop advertising on that program”https://t.co/J49sKg1uFe pic.twitter.com/50K0OBZKjA
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) March 29, 2018
UPDATE: 1:45 p.m. EST: There goes another one:
NEW: @Wayfair joins Nutrish and TripAdvisor in removing ads from Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show. https://t.co/wEJ7LCtfbQ
— Andrew Kirell (@AndrewKirell) March 29, 2018
Ingraham took to Twitter on Thursday to apologize for her tweet…let’s see if that does anything to stop the bleeding.
UPDATE: 3:52 p.m. EST: *Narrator’s voice* It did not:
And now @Nestle kinda joins in ditching Ingraham: “We have no plans to buy ads on the show in the future.” https://t.co/1bC4q1aWn2
— Andrew Kirell (@AndrewKirell) March 29, 2018
UPDATE: 7:21 p.m. EST: Hulu is pulling their ads too:
We’d like to confirm that we are no longer advertising on Laura Ingraham’s show and are monitoring all of our ad placements carefully.
— hulu (@hulu) March 29, 2018
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