Grocery chain pulls ads from FOX to protest Glenn Beck
From Raw Story:
The upscale British grocery store which has a Royal Warrant to provide foodstuffs to the Queen of England says it’s done with Fox News for good.
The Waitrose grocery store chain, which has roughly 200 stores across the United Kingdom, has announced that it will suspend advertising anywhere on the Rupert Murdoch-owned cable network after customers complained about their brand’s placement during a segment of The Glenn Beck Show. According to a British newspaper, a shopper who emailed management expressing outrage that they were “associated with this particular form of rightwing cant” received a humbled reply.
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Among those who quit Beck’s show included big-box juggernaut Wal-Mart and consumer products behemoth Procter & Gamble, as well as Travelocity and Best Buy.
Waitrose’s announcement, however, doesn’t mean the chain won’t simply stop advertising on Beck’s show; it means they won’t be advertising on Fox News Channel entirely. Waitrose advertises on the channel carried by Sky in the United Kingdom, the Guardian says.
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