Discussion: BuzzFeed Will Not Accept Trump For President Advertising

Amen to that!

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Silence works a fuck of a lot better than beating up his supporters.

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Maybe, finally, the “have you no decency” movement will start.

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BRAVO! Putting your money (or lack thereof) where your values are! Way to go! Most uncommon in this day and age!

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now if they’d just stop running ‘news stories’ every time the asshole farts then they’d actually be on to something…

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BuzzFeed has a monumentally annoying interface and style.

27 Reasons Why Refusing Trump’s Non-Existant Campaign Money STILL Won’t Get Me To Look at BuzzFeed!

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“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”

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“Earlier today, Buzzfeed informed the RNC that we would not accept Trump for President ads and that we would be terminating our agreement with them,” Peretti said in the email,

Reince Priebus approached McConnell and Ryan with the same request for deferring advertisements for Trump by the RNC, but after much deliberation it was decided the optics were poor if instituted.
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Take that, CBS.

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Benjamin Dover is CBS’s advertising liaison with the Trump campaign. He can be reached at:

http://www.cbsinteractive.com/advertising

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You got THAT right, my friend. Moonves’ proclamation was an affront to the freedoms of the Press provided by the United States Constitution.

With freedom comes responsibility.

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his name is Ben Dover? does he take it well? :scream:

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" Ouch " ! —

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The best thing that could happen to the Republic is if we all collectively laughed at him wherever possible. I think his head would explode.

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Doesn’t matter. This sort of thing needs to be applauded and awarded (with clicks) in hopes that other media outlets will follow suit. This is a brave and risky move, and I unequivocally applaud them.

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Good for them. Respectable organizations should not do business with Donald Trump.

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Counting down to conservative media attempting to make this a free speech and not a free market issue in 5…4…3…2…

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I would be interested if TPM would do the same. Josh took a pretty good whack at rump with his piece questioning rump’s wealth. I guess rump does not follow TPM or he would have tweeted something Josh’s way for sure.

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This is so obvious, Just ask yourself what type of a site BuzzFeed is. Yeah they’re that kind.