Woohoo! The liberal campaign against Fox News, aka the Republican Party Broadcasting Corp., is succeeding already. Now there's someplace to shop besides Home Depot!
Email from Lowe's:
The O'Reilly Factor does not meet Lowe's advertising guidelines, and the company's advertising will no longer appear during the program.
We appreciate your contacting us, and hope this information addresses your concerns.
Thank you,
Lowe's Customer Care
Reportedly, "callers to Home Depot who had signed the Sierra Club/MoveOn/Brave New Films petition were told, 'where are you going to shop instead of us - Lowe's? They advertise on Fox too.'"
Meanwhile, Home Depot continues to promote itself as an environmentally friendly company while advertising on the famously anti science network.
You can easily join the campaign against the Bush/Cheney Talking Points Channel by contacting Home Depot and/or by monitoring the station in your area and making a list of the local advertisers:
AP: MoveOn.org, the Campaign for America's Future and liberal blogs like DailyKos.com are asking thousands of supporters to monitor who is advertising on the network. Once a database is gathered, an organized phone-calling campaign will begin, said Jim Gilliam, vice president of media strategy for Brave New Films, a company that has made anti-Fox videos. .
At least 5,000 people nationwide have signed up to compile logs on who is running commercials on Fox, Gilliam said. The groups want to first concentrate on businesses running local ads, as opposed to national commercials.
"It's a lot more effective for Sam's Diner to get calls from 10 people in his town than going to the consumer complaint department of some pharmaceutical company," Gilliam said. . .
Interestingly, Fox News has this AP story hidden away in their Entertainment section.
TELL HOME DEPOT TO STOP ADVERTISING ON FOX!
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