“re might be big companies out there who might think twice about having an ad on Fox or other news media who might think twice about following a Fox story because it might incur the displeasure of the administration”
Sponsors look at the number of people watching a show who will hear their commercials, not a look of pleasure or displeasure on a President’s’ face.
Beat me to it. Unless 0 is willing to shovel out some more stimulus $$ to prospective advertisers in lieu of advertising on Fox, I don’t see advertisers giving in to WH bullying.
I wish that were true. But it isn't.
Watch Glen Beck's show sometime. The advertiser's boycott of Beck has actually been highly effective. He has 3-4 pretty minor advertisers for a show as popular has his. I doubt seriously if these advertisers are paying the kind of rates that Ford, or Procter and Gamble or GE or Intel would be paying for that time slot and, for cable, that huge audience. So I'm betting that Fox is not cleaning up dollar-wise on the Beck show because of this.
OTOH, in the long run you are probably right. The advertisers will slip back in over time but it is certainly not happening very fast with Beck.
"We are not amused."