Reply #19: Olive Garded update

[katanalori]

June 18, 2009, 4:43 pm
Olive Garden Says It Did Not Cancel Ads on Letterman Show
By Bill Carter
"The Olive Garden restaurant chain may not have been happy with David Letterman’s jokes about Gov. Sarah Palin and her family, but no order was issued to pull commercials from Mr. Letterman’s show, a spokesman for the company said Thursday.

Rich Jeffers, the spokesman, said Olive Garden was attempting to counter what he called “erroneous information out there,” which he said came from the Web site Politico. The site posted a report by Andy Barr on Thursday saying that the restaurant was “canceling all its scheduled ads” on Mr. Letterman’s show for the rest of the year.

Mr. Jeffers said in a telephone interview that no such cancellation decision had been made and that the company’s schedule of commercials in the show had simply expired “earlier this month.”

The Politico report said it had obtained the information about the cancellation from a “Letterman critic” who received a letter from Olive Garden that apologized if Mr. Letterman’s “mistake” had left “a bad impression of Olive Garden.” The letter, as quoted by Politico, did not say the company was pulling ads."
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/olive-garden-says-it-did-not-cancel-ads-on-letterman-show/