Kellogg to join others in removing advertising on Breitbart

[WhiteTara]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2016/11/29/kellogg-join-others-removing-advertising-breitbart/94619068/

Kellogg, the food manufacturer that owns Pringles and Pop-Tarts, confirmed Tuesday that it will discontinue advertising on Breitbart.com, the far-right news and commentary site that was formerly run by a top aide of President-elect Donald Trump, Steve Bannon.

The site has come under fire on social media in recent days as consumers, angered at what they say is its racist, sexist and anti-Semitic content, publicly name its advertisers. Bannon worked as executive chairman of Breitbart News until he left to run Trump's campaign. He was scheduled to return to Breitbart, but earlier this month, Trump named Bannon his chief strategist, stirring more of the site's critics to call out its content and appeal to its advertisers.

"We regularly work with our media buying partners to ensure our ads do not appear on sites that aren't aligned with our values as a company," Kellogg spokesperson Kris Charles in a statement. "This involves reviewing websites where ads could potentially be placed using filtering technology to assess site content. As you can imagine, there is a very large volume of websites, so occasionally something is inadvertently missed. In this case, we learned from consumers that ads were placed on Breitbart.com and decided to discontinue advertising there."

short article, no more at link.

But it's good to see corps can still be moved.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Might be too late...

Trump will probably federally fund it.



I hope that ends up being

[ificandream]

2. Kellogg's?

I was surprised a company like Kellogg's would get involved with Breitbart.

[TreasonousBastard]

7. Probably didn't knowingly-- they hire ad placement companies to analyze markets and place ads...

every so often big consumer companies get nailed with this sort of thing.

[UTUSN]

3. Well great - FOR NOW. Wait till the gov't contracts with the New barbarians kick in. n/t

[C_U_L8R]

4. Geez Kellogg's, you should have done your homework.

There just aren't any customers for SmartStart® in all of Breitbart. Doh!

[Initech]

5. No, they are definitely not what I would call "fit".

[TheBlackAdder]

6. Old man Kellogg was a religious freak. That firm has a lot of atoning to do.

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[AgadorSparticus]

8. Whatever. Just take care of it, Kellogg. And do it quick.

[niyad]

9. what took them so long?