Posted on 03/31/2018 6:56:45 AM PDT by blam
Progressive insurance, a major publicly traded company, has decided to pull ads off Laura Ingraham’s radio programs, Breitbart News can confirm. In addition to the news of the decision to pull the ads, Progressive–through an ad placement firm–at least partially defined what qualifies as a reason to pull Progressive ads off the air of a certain program: “Controversial programming.” Even so, despite coining that term for this, Progressive refused to further define what it means by “controversial programming.” A media ad-buying-and-placement firm for Progressive insurance notified radio affiliates on Friday morning to stop airing ads on or near Ingraham’s programming.
“DO NOT AIR ANY PROGRESSIVE SPOTS IN OR ADJACENT TO ANY CONTROVERSIAL PROGRAMMING, SPECIFICALLY LAURA INGRAHAM PROGRAMMING, IN THE WEEK OF 4/2,” Ad Large Media wrote on behalf of Progressive to radio affiliates nationwide on Friday morning in an email subsequently obtained by Breitbart News.
Progressives jumping on the bandwagon of other companies that are at least temporarily boycotting Ingraham’s shows is a major development. Perhaps even more significant, though, is that through ad placement firm Ad Large Media, Progressive has at least begun to define what constitutes a company’s withdrawal of its ads from a program in this new age of corporate warfare.
What has happened particularly with Laura Ingraham this week is she made comments about Parkland student David Hogg, prompting a left-wing campaign against her advertisers. In response, some advertisers pulled ads from her show. Then, she apologized to Hogg, Hogg did not accept her apology, and the attacks on her advertisers have continued.
This is the latest in a long line of similar corporate warfare attacks from the left against conservative media.
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Progressive has always been fascist.
If only I had Progressive. I could cancel...
Hooray. Those Progressive ads are annoying. Plus, the company lives up to its name. They are overly priced and they use their millions to push a progressive agenda.
Smiley-face fascism.
Boycotting , you can’t get anymore Demonut Party than that ,LOL, can you smell Obama/Jarrett ,their Bunker phone bill will be huge ,LOL
Will conservatives ever learn that apologizing hurts more than helps?
Progressive Insurance has progressive beliefs.
Progressive Insurance I was under the impression was owned primarily go George Soros... I wondered WHY he would pay for an ad on her show in the first place.
Send the fascists at Regressive a free online fax telling them what you think.
877-280-5587
If their stupid ads weren’t enough for ya to give ‘em the bird, here’s another reason.
Actually that sounds like a good thing to me.
Progressive lives up to its namesake in its company politics too.
Possibly they were trying to get new customers.
Sent my email
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That’s what I was saying when this story first broke, please please Laura do NOT apologize aaaand of course she does.
I’ve met Laura and have a picture with her. She’s one of the nicest people you could meet. Those Progressive ads are some of the most annoying on tv, I can’t stand them and change channel when they come on.
Just what does an 18 year old have on a 50+ person who has experienced so much more of life?
I fully agree... NO clear thinking patriot should have dealings with this company...
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