This is fascinating. The advertising exodus from Rush has now gone horizontal and affected his fellow radio show hosts with advertisers not currently wanting to be associated with "controversial" programming.
Overreaction?
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201203100003Mediamatters is not a very credible source.
Truth is, "leading national advertisers" (LNA's) have not been on Rush or other talkers for years. There is no mass exodus now. They left years ago.
Is Al Sharpton controversial? To me he is. Yet for some reason he does attract companies like Geico and McDonald's.
So what is really happening is this: If you're a white man with conservative views, advertisers will boycott your show. If you're a black man who was eyeballs deep in the Tawana Brawley case, Duke Lacrosse, and a Harlem firebombing, we'll support you because blacks now have that kind of power.
