Fox News stated their support for host Laura Ingraham, despite the fact that advertisers are fleeing her show after the TV personality directed a disparaging tweet at Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg.
The teenage gun control advocate, however, proved no easy target, using his social media following to organize a boycott threat against advertisers on Ingraham’s show.
“We cannot and will not allow voices to be censored by agenda-driven intimidation efforts,” Jack Abernethy, co-president of Fox News, said in a statement to the Los Angeles Times. “We look forward to having Laura Ingraham back hosting her program next Monday when she returns from spring vacation with her children.”
Ingraham went on a scheduled break the week after she came under fire for mocking Hogg for being rejected by four University of California schools. Hogg responded by listing Fox New advertisers and urging his Twitter supporters to call for a boycott of her program, The Ingraham Angle.
The host has since apologized for her remarks about Hogg, who did not accept her apology. More than a dozen advertisers have publicly stated that they have pulled their commercials from The Ingraham Angle, others have stayed away without public announcements. Johnson & Johnson, Liberty Mutual, Office Depot, Expedia, Nestle and Hulu have all pulled their ads.
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