BuzzFeed likens Donald Trump to cigarettes, refuses to run his ads

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Source: Washington Post

BuzzFeed just quit Donald Trump like a smoking habit. No patch. No gum. The site is going cold turkey.

Here's the key sentence in a Monday memo from BuzzFeed chief executive Jonah Peretti to his staff: "We don't run cigarette ads because they are hazardous to our health, and we won't accept Trump ads for the exact same reason."

BuzzFeed will, of course, continue to cover the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. But it said its advertising department has terminated an agreement with the Republican National Committee that would have included ads for the party's presidential ticket in the fall.

More from Peretti:

The Trump campaign is directly opposed to the freedoms of our employees in the United States and around the world and, in some cases, such as his proposed ban on international travel for Muslims, would make it impossible for our employees to do their jobs.

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1. BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!

[Agnosticsherbet]

2. More evidence that the Media are turning on Trump

[KamaAina]

3. The Surgeon General has determined that Trump may be hazardous to your health.

[Surya Gayatri]

5. Or, as cigarette packets say in 2"-high letters here in France: "Trumping Kills"

[Aerows]

9. Hand me a pack of cigarettes

so that I can promptly throw them off the tallest building I can find.

Worst freaking addiction around, and thank all that is holy I quit it.

[Surya Gayatri]

10. Worse than hard drugs in some ways...nicotine has a hell of a powerful addictive effect.

I had a friend who died due to the damage from a 50 year habit: esophageal cancer.

ETA: Well done on quitting. Your body will thank you.

[Aerows]

11. Cigarettes have killed way too many good people.

Wouldn't get back on that bus for all the money in the world.

[Surya Gayatri]

12. I went back and added a word of congratulations on quitting. No mean feat of will.

[Aerows]

13. Thanks :)

[IronLionZion]

4. Trump should buy ads on DU!

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Not doing their jobs is a GOP Requirement

Like they do in the US Senate

[DemMomma4Sanders]

7. Its actually scary as shit to see the Media preventing political ads

This is some shit that goes down in North Korea, Sudan or Saudi Arabia......it shouldn't be happening in America whether we like the candidate or not.

[geek tragedy]

14. Lol, welcome to DU. Perhaps you're confused as to what "freedom of the press" means

in this context.

[DemMomma4Sanders]

16. Freedom of the press, the idea, did not include a press whose reporting is biased by cash.

This is censorship of the democratic process pure and simple.

You would be up in arms had they refused to run ads for Obama, as would I.

Rigtfully so......

[geek tragedy]

17. what is your opinion of Donald Trump? nt

[DemMomma4Sanders]

18. I like Sanders.....I will not be voting Trump in the GE no matter who the Nominee is.

Trump is populist, he says what people want to hear depending on where he is and whats trending.....

I think his rejection of windfarms around his golf courses is a crime against our environment in the name of aesthetics. As an adamant environmentalist his love of coal and oil boils my blood.

All of ithis aside I dont want to see Media blanket banning any candidate....Its gives people, his followers, natural rights that aren't condusive to maintaining order.

[geek tragedy]

19. you realize that freedom of the press and speech means they don't have to

carry advertising if it violates their conscience, right?

[Enrique]

20. biased by cash

but they're foregoing the cash Trump wanted to give them.

Wouldn't the ones being biased by cash be the ones that run his ads?

[Aerows]

8. I quit smoking a year and a half ago.

I'd rather chop significant portions of my limbs off than smoke again.

It took me 3 years to quit, ditching drinking coffee, and being absolutely elated that I managed to get that monkey off of my back.

I dreamt about the damn things for a solid year.

[rurallib]

15. unfortunately, the dreams don't go away but do fade in frequency and intensity

or at least that was my experience.
I am about 42 years without smokes.

But major congratulations on quitting. You deserve some real cheers


Just don't ever pick up the Trump habit.

[Aerows]

23. I woke up in a cold sweat

just thinking I'd smoked a cigarette and was promptly thrilled as all get out that it was just a dream!

[rurallib]

24. yep - me too several times

when I have asked friends that were former smokers, they all have gone through that. Part of the withdrawal, I guess.

[StarTrombone]

21. Proving once again that corporations do have rights

In this case the right to do business with only those they approve of without government interference.

It could start a trend.

[Initech]

22. "Well that's because they don't know that I'm very addicting!"

"We're going to build a wall around Buzzfeed, it's going to be the best wall, we're going to use the best materials, it's going to be huge!"