At some point advertisers, TV Networks, Social Media Platforms need to demand their talent and users stay within ethical boundaries or be held liable. Hate mongers need to find a moral compass or be constantly corrected with our complaints, our dollars and our votes. Those who give them a platform or turn a blind eye need to feel public opprobrium.
I will go further and posit that far right conspiracy theorists who have a sizable public platform endanger our public safety. Some conspiracy theory-mongers are plugged into the well financed rightwing media machine. It goes from the fringe to Infowars to Breitbart to FOX. This isn’t incidental. It’s being done on purpose. And it’s dangerous because this rightwing network also includes companies with data identifying people who respond to such conspiracies.
Voltaire: “Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities, Can Make You Commit Atrocities”
After right-wing star Laura Ingraham publicly mocked Parkland school-shooting survivor David Hogg for being rejected by multiple colleges, several companies have pulled their ads from her primetime Fox News show.
“David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it. (Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA...totally predictable given acceptance rates.)” Ingraham wrote Thursday on Twitter while sharing an article on the matter from right-wing outlet The Daily Wire.
As of Thursday afternoon, three of those advertisers have already pledged to remove their ads from The Ingraham Angle, her 10 p.m. Fox News show.
Ingraham appeared to take back her comments Thursday afternoon, hours after Hogg sent a tweet calling for advertisers to boycott her Fox News show. Hogg’s tweet generated thousands of retweets and resulted in at least two brands promising to sever its relationship with Ingraham.
“On reflection, in the spirit of Holy Week, I apologize for any upset or hurt my tweet caused him or any of the brave victims of Parkland,” Ingraham tweeted. She also tried to curtail the damage by noting Hogg had appeared on her show after the shooting.
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