BREAKING: UPS Announces It Will Stop Advertising On Bill O’Reilly’s Show

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/27/ups-oreilly/

BREAKING: UPS Announces It Will Stop Advertising On Bill O’Reilly’s Show


In response to our Stop Supporting The O’Reilly Harassment Machine campaign, UPS told us yesterday that it was investigating whether to continue supporting O’Reilly’s show. “We are sensitive to the type of television programming where our messages and presence are associated and continually review choices to affect future decisions,” spokeswoman Susan Rosenberg told us.

Today UPS announced it will stop advertising on O’Reilly’s show. Here is the statement UPS emailed out just moments ago:

Thank you for sending an e-mail expressing concern about UPS advertising during the Bill O’Reilly show on FOX News. We do consider such comments as we review ad placement decisions which involve a variety of news, entertainment and sports programming. At this time, we have no plans to continue advertising during this show.

Here’s a graphic of the email statement we received:



Thank you UPS! We need more corporate sponsors of O’Reilly to follow UPS’s lead. Let’s keep up the pressure. Please sign onto our campaign and tell your friends to do so as well:

[Ilsa]

1. Sweet Victory!

:toast: :thumbsup: :fistbump: :woohoo:

[underpants]

2. Go Brown!

next up-left hand turns

[rurallib]

3. smart decision.

[lamp_shade]

4. Wonderful news. I wonder who'll be next. n/t

[derby378]

5. Maybe O'Reilly can recoup the lost ad income with GIRLS GONE WILD commercials

It'll give him something to complain about on his show - and something to order on the cellphone during commercial breaks.

[lazyriver]

6. Good for UPS. I would imagine they are among the more significant

sponsors and perhaps will set a trend.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

7. Big Thumbs-up to Big Brown!!!

Pretty nice horse, too!

[marmar]

8. He's bound to blow a gasket tonight.

:nuke:

[Ilsa]

10. Let's hope the cameraman is asleep and his viewers see him foaming at the mouth over it. nt

[edbermac]

9. How long do you think it will take Fox do a hit piece on UPS?

The president of UPS should be forewarned of an ambush interview from Bill-O next time he leaves his house.

[progressoid]

14. Not long. They are a union shop you know.

[EOTE]

16. Not Bill-O himself.

He sends out his lackeys to do all the dirty work.

[Fuzz]

11. Someone post this at FR and watch the hilarity ensue!

;)

[rhett o rick]

17. I can't, I've been baned from FR. nm

[Fuzz]

21. Lol.

[rhett o rick]

22. I am serious, and I can't imagine why (sarcasm). nm

[City Lights]

12. Brown just made my day!

:applause:

:thumbsup:

This is fantastic news! :bounce:

[spoony]

13. Big points for UPS this week

First FedEx tries to extort Congress into not passing employee choice act, now UPS does this. Looks like my shipping decisions are settled from here on.

[rvablue]

15. This doesn't matter one iota to me!!!

Frankly, I find O'Reilly the least offensive member of the RW smear club. Let me stress "the least" part, please, before I get flamed.

While this is good news, it matters very little if they are still adversiting at all with Hannity, Beck, Pigboy and Savage as I find these creatures so much worse.

[originalpckelly]

18. Something tells me there's going to be a little brown in Bill O'Reilly's draws!

:P

[bigwillq]

19. Awesome!

:bounce:

[Johonny]

20. I wonder if UPS knows something the rating aren't telling

Like possibly his shows ratings are vastly inflated or that his target audience simply isn't very valuable.

[spanone]

23. UPYESSSS!!!

[mymessageboardid]

24. What can my luffa do for you?

[sellitman]

25. I'm going to watch Olbermann at 10pm eastern tonight

I hope he talks about this.


:rofl:

[lib2DaBone]

26. Gee.. I wonder why?

UPS doesn't think that anyone other than Republican Sychophants can make shipping decisions?

UPS can't trust their customers? Now we need to start drug testing Shipping Manages, Purchasing Manages, Human Resource Managers and CEO's ?

After all.. it's just Homeland Securiity....

[Omaha Steve]

27. K&R!

[Jennicut]

28. Good for them. They get that Billo is BAD for their business.

[BuyingThyme]

29. Think Progress made this story up.

UPS has not announced that they will no longer advertise with O'Reilly.

They announced that they have no plans to continue advertising with O'Reilly.

Think Progress made the whole thing up.