-The Wrap
At least eight major companies announced Thursday that they were pulling their sponsorship of Laura Ingraham’s Fox News program because of a Wednesday tweet by the anchor widely seen as mocking Parkland, Florida, school shooting survivor David Hogg.
Hulu, TripAdvisor, Wayfair, Nutrish, Expedia, Stitch Fix, Johnson & Johnson and Nestle bowed to public pressure to stop advertising on “The Ingraham Angle” after Hogg himself called for a boycott of her sponsors.
In a statement to TheWrap, a spokesperson for TripAdvisor said the company did not “condone the inappropriate comments made by this broadcaster. In our view, these statements focused on a high school student, cross the line of decency. As such, we have made a decision to stop advertising on that program.”
Home furnishing site Wayfair said in its statement: “As a company, we support open dialogue and debate on issues. However, the decision of an adult to personally criticize a high school student who has lost his classmates in an unspeakable tragedy is not consistent with our values. We do not plan to continue advertising on this particular program.”
A ninth company, men’s clothing retailer Jos. A Bank, told TheWrap that it does not consider itself a sponsor of Ingraham’s show and that the two ads that aired during Wednesday’s broadcast were most likely bonus ads from the network.
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