Posh nosh shop drops Fox
High-end UK supermarket Waitrose has pulled its advertising from Fox News after presenter Glenn Beck called Barack Obama “a racist”, and said he had “a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture”.
Beck made the remarks after Obama said police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, had “acted stupidly” when they arrested US academic Henry Louis Gates for suspected burglary as he entered his own home.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/07/harvard.html
Defending press freedom
There has been widespread condemnation of the company’s decision, with many media commentators and academics seeing it as a serious attack by big business on press freedom.
What???
Actually, I made that last bit up.
I mean, as if…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/04/waitrose-fox-news-barack-obama?commentpage=4&commentposted=1
High-end UK supermarket Waitrose has pulled its advertising from Fox News after presenter Glenn Beck called Barack Obama “a racist”, and said he had “a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture”.
Beck made the remarks after Obama said police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, had “acted stupidly” when they arrested US academic Henry Gates for suspected burglary as he entered his own home.
Defending press freedom
There has been widespread condemnation of Waitrose’s decision, with many media commentators and academics seeing it as a serious attack by big business on press freedom.
What???
Actually, I made that last bit up.
I mean, as if…