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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLimbaugh Has Advertisers Recalculating Web’s Power: Tech
Limbaugh Has Advertisers Recalculating Webs Power: Tech
By Edmund Lee
A day after Rush Limbaugh called Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a slut, Angelo Carusone, a Washington-based activist, began contacting advertisers to boycott Limbaughs show -- over the phone, via e-mail, through Twitter Inc. and on Facebook Inc. (FB)
Twenty-four hours later, six companies, including Geico Corp. (156714Q) and Citrix Systems Inc., dropped their ads on the conservative radio program. After three days, 18 more companies, including AOL Inc. (AOL) and Sears Holdings Corp., pulled their marketing. Before the week was out, 27 more, including Netflix Inc. and Capital One Financial Corp., cut spots from The Rush Limbaugh Show, heard by more than 13 million listeners daily.
The boycott wouldnt have had the same effect without Twitter or Facebook, said Carusone, campaign director for Media Matters for America, which is dedicated to monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media, according to its website. He was careful to add that others across the Internet fueled a campaign that thus far has prompted at least 51 advertisers to cut ties to Limbaugh -- in less than eight days.
While threats of boycotts over content are as old as old media, online social outlets have matured -- both in use and perception -- to the point that major corporations now weigh these campaigns more seriously and with an urgency not seen before. The collective power of social media to specifically target a group of companies has never been more dramatically on display than in the Limbaugh incident, shaking companies as diverse as San Diego-based ProFlowers and Dearborn, Michigan- based Ford Motor Co. (F)
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http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-03-15/limbaugh-clash-has-advertisers-recalculating-web-s-power-tech
By Edmund Lee
A day after Rush Limbaugh called Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a slut, Angelo Carusone, a Washington-based activist, began contacting advertisers to boycott Limbaughs show -- over the phone, via e-mail, through Twitter Inc. and on Facebook Inc. (FB)
Twenty-four hours later, six companies, including Geico Corp. (156714Q) and Citrix Systems Inc., dropped their ads on the conservative radio program. After three days, 18 more companies, including AOL Inc. (AOL) and Sears Holdings Corp., pulled their marketing. Before the week was out, 27 more, including Netflix Inc. and Capital One Financial Corp., cut spots from The Rush Limbaugh Show, heard by more than 13 million listeners daily.
The boycott wouldnt have had the same effect without Twitter or Facebook, said Carusone, campaign director for Media Matters for America, which is dedicated to monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media, according to its website. He was careful to add that others across the Internet fueled a campaign that thus far has prompted at least 51 advertisers to cut ties to Limbaugh -- in less than eight days.
While threats of boycotts over content are as old as old media, online social outlets have matured -- both in use and perception -- to the point that major corporations now weigh these campaigns more seriously and with an urgency not seen before. The collective power of social media to specifically target a group of companies has never been more dramatically on display than in the Limbaugh incident, shaking companies as diverse as San Diego-based ProFlowers and Dearborn, Michigan- based Ford Motor Co. (F)
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http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-03-15/limbaugh-clash-has-advertisers-recalculating-web-s-power-tech
Rush Limbaugh's Advertisers, March 15
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201203150012
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Limbaugh Has Advertisers Recalculating Web’s Power: Tech (Original Post)
ProSense
Mar 2012
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Tarheel_Dem
(31,234 posts)1. My hat's off to Angelo, and whoever else deserves credit for this.
janx
(24,128 posts)2. Check this out!
ProSense
(116,464 posts)3. Awesome. Thanks! n/t
applegrove
(118,682 posts)4. The GOP and the 1% thought they had the people 'cowed' with their advertising dollars. People
don't like being told what to think. That does not make them feel free. The internet does. So does the OWS. That just shows you how wrong their dreams of authoritarian control was. It bodes well for the future of humanity that people really do want to see their own realities reflected back, not the narrative imposed on them from above. People will always seek real freedom. Now if we could just get that message to those in the GOP base voting against their own economic self interest. They need to be set free too.