Comments on: Freedom of Screech

By: Al

Al — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:58:03 +0000

Monday night Keith Olbermann reported that the number of advertisers dumping Glenn Beck is now over twenty. Sounds like a trend.

By: Al

Al — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:20:54 +0000

Good point — but they’ll get theirs. In Beck’s case, he apparently went over everybody’s line by insisting repeatedly that Obama hates white people. He also got weird with a comparison between Obama’s programs and the holocaust, eugenics, etc. that left four guests staring and saying not a word for five minutes. Limbaugh and O’Reilly have come close to that but have (so far) escaped the Imus moment. Still, I think advertisers will begin to question the wisdom of inviting boycotts and trashing their own reputations by sponsoring the three baboons you mention plus many on talk radio. Meantime, as a nominee for the Strange Bedfellows medal — Murdoch is courting Imus for a slot on Fox Business(Financial?) Channel, which has failed to attract an audience.

By: Steve Alber

Steve Alber — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:46:04 +0000

Beck-boys advertisers are falling with thundering thuds, which begs the question: If Beck (and, by extension, Murdoch) is paying the price for his blithering lunacy, why are his compatriots in underarms? Surely, Rush Limgaugh, Bill O’Reilly and the ever-odious Sean Hannity have mouthed obscenities equally as virulent as those of the bubble-brained Beck, but their advertisers seem to take no notice. Oh, well. As long as there are stupid people – and the right to stupidity is guaranteed by the Constitution – there will be hate radio. And there will be hate radio because stupid people need someplace to tell them where to spend their money.

By: Al

Al — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:30:46 +0000

More advertisers dropped Beck today — Conagra and RadioShack among them. The total is now over a dozen. Rupert’s losses are deepening, and he will have to put more of his own commercials on the show to keep up appearances — maybe an ad to sell his daughter’s bicycle?

By: Al

Al — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:25:36 +0000

Wonderful! Rupert is paying himself — but also paying Beck to lose money for him. Next will come ads for the New York Post and Fox TV shows. His News Corporation reported earnings a couple of weeks ago, and I think they were already down roughly 75%, so hopefully this will accelerate the slide.

By: Barb

Barb — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:05:48 +0000

Glenn Beck’s advertisers today included the Wall Street Journal. Hmmmm. Doesn’t Murdoch own that too? Is he losing advertisers so fast he has to shove stage props in the open slots?