{"id":11624,"date":"2007-07-28T14:50:18","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T18:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/11624.html"},"modified":"2007-07-28T14:50:18","modified_gmt":"2007-07-28T18:50:18","slug":"lowes-breaks-with-oreilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/lowes-breaks-with-oreilly\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowe’s breaks with O’Reilly"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of the response to Bill O’Reilly latest offensive against blogs, the netroots pressured Lowe’s to end its advertising of the Fox News personality’s talk show.<\/p>\n

It worked. Here’s part of a letter<\/a> sent to a Lowe’s customer who had complained about the chain’s advertising.<\/p>\n

Thank you for your comments regarding the program, The O’Reilly Factor.<\/p>\n

Lowe’s has strict guidelines that govern the placement of our advertising. Our company advertises primarily in national, network prime-time television programs and on a variety of cable outlets.<\/p>\n

Lowe’s constantly reviews advertising buys to make certain they are consistent with its policy guidelines. The O’Reilly Factor does not meet Lowe’s advertising guidelines, and the company’s advertising will no longer appear during the program<\/b>. (emphasis added)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

O’Reilly really<\/i> isn’t going to respond well to this.<\/p>\n

As for the next step, it looks like Home Depot is the next company of interest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As part of the response to Bill O’Reilly latest offensive against blogs, the netroots pressured Lowe’s to end its advertising of the Fox News personality’s talk show. It worked. Here’s part of a letter sent to a Lowe’s customer who had complained about the chain’s advertising. Thank you for your comments regarding the program, The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}