Freeping Works! Lexus to stop advertising on Salon!(Vanity)

Phone call from Lexus VP ^ | 8/19/02 | Drango

[Drango]

Freeping works! I just got off the phone with the VP of Marketing for Lexus...Last week I had sent the following email to the COO of Toyota, their parent company.

Did you know your Lexus division is funding pedophilia, prevision and filth by advertising on the left-wing site Salon? There are countless examples. Check out   http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/07/22/coming_of_age/index.html?x     As a proud Lexus owner, I'm ashamed that Toyota would be supporting this garbage. Is this the image you want your company to have?

Name Address & phone 

The VP called me today in response! According to him, Lexus is pulling their ads (or not renewing their contract). In part it was because of my email, he said!

Lexus over the years has been one of the largest advertisers at Salon. In a small way I feel I and the others great Freepers here, have helped defund the left.

At the risk of beating a dead horse...here is the contact info for Neiman Marcus one of Salon's newest advertisers:

http://www.neimanmarcus.com/store/service/contactus.jhtml

Check it out, send 'em an email or call 'em!

 

(Note; it got a little lonley out there. When the pedophilia article was first published on Salon, I posted excerpts here. It was pulled as being a bit much for FreeRepublic. I then emailed it to Newsmax, Drudge, Weekely Standard, Andrew Sullivan (hey he should have published it) and a bunch of other sites. Nothing! Not a lot of people pinged my messages, in fact a number of people asked to be taken off my ping list! I felt like I was tilting at a windmill. But today it was all worth it!)

 

 

[Doc-Joe]

Neiman Marcus Cookie Recipe

[Valin]

Nothing wrong with a little windmill tilting now and then.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

While you had him on the phone you should've asked him why Toyota paid off Jesse Jackson and his goon squad.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

I just attempted to read the article...it is absolutely disgusting to me. Unbelievable.

[Drango]

Please ADD me to your advertiser boycott list.

The funny thing is I really don't have a formal list. Timesink is the keeper of the famous "Salon DeathWatch" list. And I'm not sure who keeps the media bias list? I made a quick list to alert people to the delisting potential.

I nominate Timesink to be the keeper o' the list!

Also, It's time to honor Timesink and a bunch of other Freepers who are too modest to step forward, who have dilegently Freeped Salon in the past. IT WAS A CUMULATIVE EFFORT.

[Humidston]

BRAVO, Drango!

But watch out: This activism stuff is addictive!

[AGreatPer]

Good stuff. Love it.

[Freedom2specul8]

CONGRATULATIONS PING!

[ForGod'sSake]

Good grief; I couldn't read the whole piece either! Apparently Salon is trolling for any audience they can get. Gotta love their stock's trend line...blub, blub ; )

FGS

[Cold Heat]

Done good!

[johnboy]

Salon did have one (1) good feature, the Mr. Blue ...

nah. camille paglia could always be counted on to be smarter than yours truly.

[be-baw]

Excellent stroke of business drango. Congratulations!

Thanks for the ping, bert. Long time, no see. Hope all is well with you and the gang.

[chance33_98]

I went to http://www.neimanmarcus.com/store/service/contactus.jhtml and sent them a letter, and got a reply: They claim they have no affiliation at all to salon.com....

[Drango]

They claim they have no affiliation at all to salon.com....

LOL...I'd deny it too...

Seriously, I just went to Salon and the Neman Marcus ad is NOT in the current rotation as far as I can see. It WAS yesterday. It's normal to cycle in and out. We'll watch and ping you when (if) they come back.

[Drango]

BINGO: Here is an ad from NM on Salon...They must be in a deep rotation...(I'm not sure how this screen capture will work, I've cut off the bottom)

Search  About Salon  Table Talk  Advertise in Salon  Investor Relations

	Search All of Salon.com Only Technology Directory Hot Topics Ask the Pilot Enron Computer Games P. Smith Napster Microsoft Antitrust Matrix Andrew Leonard Censorship Articles by date All of Salon.com By department
~snip

[chance33_98]

Hmmmm...wonder if it is a link exchange type thing where there is no direct correlation? Here is the letter I got:
Thank you for contacting Neiman Marcus Online.

We received your inquiry regarding site affililations. Neiman Marcus has no affiliation with salon.com or anything that may be on their web site.

If you have questions or concerns with anything affiliated with their web site, we suggest contacting salon.com for assistance.

If we can be of further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Thank you for choosing Neiman Marcus Online.

Sincerely,
Jennifer Atkins
ecare@ecare.neimanmarcus.com
1-888-888-4757

[Drango]

Burton Tanksy,  Pres, CEO, Director
Brian Knez,  Vice Chairman
Robert Smith,  Vice Chairman
James Skinner,  CFO, Sr. VP

Jennifer is clueless! let's go to the TOP: Here are the executives, I suspect the email for the pres is : burton_tansky@neimanmarcus.com Also here are the emails for PR flacks...

For questions regarding online marketing opportunities for NeimanMarcus.com, please contact:

Michael Crotty
michael_crotty@neimanmarcus.com


For questions regarding media or public relations for NeimanMarcus.com, please contact:

Ginger Reeder
ginger_reeder@neimanmarcus.com
972.969.3213

Kellie Patrick
kellie_patrick@neimanmarcus.com
972.969.3210