Comments | aldous: Air America Radio, Blacklisted

aldous

Air America Radio, Blacklisted

Nov 01, 2006 10:52

That moderate viewpoint has just been shown to be WAY too generous of us. A memo, dated October 25th, 2006 shows a VAST array of some of the top-spending advertisers have stated that they will not allow their ads to be aired on Air America, thus robbing it of its attractiveness to stations that want to run AAR programming.

In the memo, sent ( Read more... )

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bernmarx November 1 2006, 17:55:00 UTC

67 is Philip Morris, maker of fine tobacco products.

90 is possibly Wyeth, a pharm house.

aldous November 1 2006, 18:41:40 UTC

Thank you! I'll be sure to update the list. This is a pretty pervasive gallery of advertisers, wouldn't you say?

bernmarx November 1 2006, 21:29:29 UTC

I'm not as offended by it. Air America is a vocally and decidedly political network, while FoxNews is pretending to be impartial (hahahahahahahahahah... haha... ha... *ahem*), so I can understand why some advertisers would be more hesitant to advertise on AA than on FN. Especially in this climate of increasingly partisan politics.

I just wish someone could come forward and end the bickering.

aldous November 2 2006, 01:47:37 UTC

Well, I'll say I'm not surprised that SOME have blacklisted it, I'm just a bit shocked at how MANY and the caliber of these firms.

I know, I'm naive sometimes.

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emiofbrie November 1 2006, 18:46:07 UTC

And what's worse is that if you were to try to boycott all these companies, you wouldn't be able to live. These companies combined have their paws in so many essential goods that it's impossible to avoid them.

Welcome to the age of unboycottable branding. Companies that can do whatever they like because they know a boycott is impossible.

Sad...

aldous November 1 2006, 18:50:23 UTC

Yeah, notice I'm not calling for an immediate boycott of all of them, as I know that's fairly impossible. However, I think it needs to be out there.

bchbum_98 November 2 2006, 00:56:23 UTC

Is Morningstar the company that makes those passable vegetarian burgers? I would think liberal listeners would be their prime customers. What's up with that?

bchbum_98 November 2 2006, 01:42:46 UTC

I'm not sure about that. I know that Morningstar Farms (the makers of the vegetarian foods you refer to) is a subsidiary of Kellogg's Cereal, so I THINK it may be a different company.

fenixmagus November 4 2006, 02:12:53 UTC

krikey...