Media Matters Pressures Orbitz to stop ads on FNC

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volinbham

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Those knuckleheads are at it again.

Media Matters Calls On Orbitz To Stop Advertising On Fox Over LGBT Issues

Orbitz apparently was the first target. Up next are Netflix, Best Western, Priceline, Delta Airlines, Ocean Spray and Southwest Airlines.

But, MM is doing it for their own good:

"These are companies that quite honestly aren't reaching their stated demographic. They have more to lose than gain by advertising on Fox," said Hogue. "Most of them are tilted in the direction of caring about the environment, civil rights -- the things Fox News has systematically spoken against."
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Orbitz said "no way" - good for them.

In Orbitz, though, DropFox may have already bitten off more than it can chew. The company is not only refusing to buckle under the pressure -- which includes an online petition signed by 40,000 people asking it to ditch Fox News -- but it is striking back at Media Matters, warning the organization it is risking its credibility by attacking Orbitz.
"This is a political organization that has been funded pretty extensively to go after one network, and we aren't going to engage in that fight," Orbitz spokesman Brian Hoyt said.
"We have a strict policy of tolerance and non-discrimination, and that means we don't favor one political side over another. Tolerance is a two-way street," he said. "We're going to advertise on conservative TV stations, liberal TV stations and -- if there are any out there -- unbiased news broadcasts."
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"We haven't bowed to any boycott in the past, and we won't bow to these types of smear campaigns in the future,"
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/orbitz-backs-fox-news-channel-190372

More of that liberal tolerance of differing opinions?
 
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"We're going to advertise on conservative TV stations, liberal TV stations and -- if there are any out there -- unbiased news broadcasts."
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I enjoyed that.
 
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1) MM can encourage someone not to advertise on Fox if they want to. A number of companies did with Beck iirc. So what?

2) Orbitz can tell them to pound sand if they want to. So what?

Not seeing the significance of this.
 
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lawgator1 said:
1) MM can encourage someone not to advertise on Fox if they want to. A number of companies did with Beck iirc. So what?

2) Orbitz can tell them to pound sand if they want to. So what?

Not seeing the significance of this.
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Again, the liberal's ultimate disparagement is the intolerance label and has become the unholy of unholies in our goofball society. Amazing that their unyielding view toward intolerance has limitations.
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BigPapaVol said:
Again, the liberal's ultimate disparagement is the intolerance label and has become the unholy of unholies in our goofball society. Amazing that their unyielding view toward intolerance has limitations.
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Come on, comparing this kind of "intolerance" to bigotry is beneath your usually decent analytical skills.
 
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Vol_4_Life said:
So one kind of intolerance is worse than another type of intolerance?
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Being intolerant of bigotry is superior to the bigotry, yes. Pretty obvious. Even if you don't have a problem with the bigotry, simply expressing disagreement and asking sponsors to withdraw their $ is pretty tame and rather standard.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Being intolerant of bigotry is superior to the bigotry, yes. Pretty obvious. Even if you don't have a problem with the bigotry, simply expressing disagreement and asking sponsors to withdraw their $ is pretty tame and rather standard.
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Come on now, be honest. If this were a conservative group doing the same to MSNBC you would be up in arms over it.
 
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Vol_4_Life said:
So one kind of intolerance is worse than another type of intolerance?
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"Here, intolerance... will not be tolerated."
 
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lawgator1 said:
1) MM can encourage someone not to advertise on Fox if they want to. A number of companies did with Beck iirc. So what?

2) Orbitz can tell them to pound sand if they want to. So what?

Not seeing the significance of this.
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not surprising you'd see it this way - you did see that Orbitz referred to it as a smear campaign but I guess there's nothing wrong with that.
 
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lawgator1 said:
1) MM can encourage someone not to advertise on Fox if they want to. A number of companies did with Beck iirc. So what?

2) Orbitz can tell them to pound sand if they want to. So what?

Not seeing the significance of this.
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they are tax exempt. i thought they were supposed to be neutral.

how can a supposedly tax exempt company be so one sided?
 
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rjd970 said:
Come on now, be honest. If this were a conservative group doing the same to MSNBC you would be up in arms over it.
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I wouldn't care. I would in fact assume that advertisers get calls every day, some from liberals, some from conservatives, asking them to pull their ads from MSNBC, Fox News, the New York Times, Drudge, Yahoo, the Daily Bugle ... whatever.

Its a common thing.

Last night was lmao at Fox when O'Reilly had on Hume was interviewing him about this, like it was a news interview. That's right -- they are now actually interviewing each other on Fox in order to dress up a political statement as news.

What a crock.


volinbham said:
not surprising you'd see it this way - you did see that Orbitz referred to it as a smear campaign but I guess there's nothing wrong with that.
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They are big boys. They can defend themselves. They don't need Fox to run "stories" about how an advertiser on their network is being asked to pull ads on .. their network.

Its as usual much ado about nothing and whipped up by Fox, itself. Again, as usual.
 
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milohimself said:
Do you agree with the following statements:

1) The majority of Americans are idiots

2) FNC gets the highest ratings of any cable news station

:)
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:whistling:

lawgator1 said:
Last night was lmao at Fox when O'Reilly had on Hume was interviewing him about this, like it was a news interview. That's right -- they are now actually interviewing each other on Fox in order to dress up a political statement as news.
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lawgator1 said:
I wouldn't care. I would in fact assume that advertisers get calls every day, some from liberals, some from conservatives, asking them to pull their ads from MSNBC, Fox News, the New York Times, Drudge, Yahoo, the Daily Bugle ... whatever.

Its a common thing.

Last night was lmao at Fox when O'Reilly had on Hume was interviewing him about this, like it was a news interview. That's right -- they are now actually interviewing each other on Fox in order to dress up a political statement as news.

What a crock.





They are big boys. They can defend themselves. They don't need Fox to run "stories" about how an advertiser on their network is being asked to pull ads on .. their network.

Its as usual much ado about nothing and whipped up by Fox, itself. Again, as usual.
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It is a story and it didn't begin on Fox. In fact, the two stories I posted were from the HuffPo and The Hollywood Reporter. Neither is a right wing source.
 
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milohimself said:
Do you agree with the following statements:

1) The majority of Americans are idiots

2) FNC gets the highest ratings of any cable news station

:)
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I agree with both points, but they are unrelated.

Regardless, this is business, ad companies like higher ratings
 
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lawgator1 said:
Last night was lmao at Fox when O'Reilly had on Hume was interviewing him about this, like it was a news interview. That's right -- they are now actually interviewing each other on Fox in order to dress up a political statement as news.
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Hume appears on O'Reilly's show quite a bit. Not sure why you think this is noteworthy.
 
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