Fox News is always being boycotted, so that’s nothing new. But nonprofit group Check My Ads announced on Thursday its new campaign to target Fox News’ advertisers. Someone at NPR got the press release and decided to run with it, interviewing two of the women involved with the group.
Five years ago, I co-founded the campaign to make Breitbart unprofitable. They lost 90% of their ad revenues in 3 months. Today, we're launching the campaign to take on Fox News — and we know exactly how to get the job done. cc @mediagazer https://t.co/3ie3QRwIsd
— Nandini Jammi (@nandoodles) June 9, 2022
NPR reports:
A nonprofit aiming to defund disinformation online that has taken money out of the pockets of several prominent far-right websites now has its sights set on its most formidable target yet: Fox News.
The group, Check My Ads, is hoping the success it has had in stripping advertising dollars from right-wing provocateurs including Steve Bannon, Glenn Beck and Dan Bongino will give it momentum as it attempts to confront a powerful media empire.
On Thursday, the outfit announced a new campaign directed at Fox’s website and its popular YouTube channel calling on the public to pressure online ad exchanges to stop doing business with Fox. It comes just as the House committee investigating the Capitol riots kicks off a series of hearings focused on violence that unfolded on Jan. 6.
And this is news why?
Good Lord what a miserable existence https://t.co/4lDVuUg6N4
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) June 9, 2022
Just nagging the shit out of everybody for a living, lol. Amazing. What a world
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) June 9, 2022
Professional Karen
— Justin (@ThisJustinVA) June 9, 2022
So much stunninging and braveing in one tweet
— StatistsHateUs (@StatistsHateUs) June 9, 2022
Where are media hall monitors Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy? Here is one outlet, NPR, publicizing an attack on another media outlet.
Rx Meanwhile, I simply don't watch tune into the media sources I find absurd. These folks need help. Why do they fear alternative points of view to the point of silencing them? https://t.co/Z0ay0xIU1s
— The Gormogons (@Gormogons) June 9, 2022
Translation: My ideas aren’t better than yours, so I have to find ways to stop people from hearing your ideas. https://t.co/IaNtmFQsgt
— Sean Bannion (@SeanBannion) June 9, 2022
Leftists really are afraid of other people being able to present ideas and facts they can’t intelligently debate. https://t.co/1ONKOEOj1p
— Fiscal Therapist (@BigLifeMark) June 9, 2022
Left wing radicalism at its best.
Destroy, defund, censor anything that challenges their narrative. https://t.co/wzxmlvcQW2
— America The Gray (@AmericanPeriod1) June 9, 2022
Difficult to overstate the extent to which the modern left is dependent on trying to silence dissent, through whatever means are available. https://t.co/kiYadkqWoR
— Stephan Kapustka (@StephanKapustka) June 9, 2022
What’s NPR’s goal in promoting this effort? Never mind, we know.
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‘Good thinking, Sen. Warren’! Will this rating info cause a Dem candidate to re-think her Fox News boycott? https://t.co/lwACKjRbdL
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 20, 2019
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