[qam1]

It seems GM is just using the credibility of the LA Slimes as an excuse for pulling their ads when in fact it's because someone wrote an editorial on their crummy cars.

This could be a bad thing because we want news outlets to criticize corporations when they deserve criticizing, now news outlets might hold back.

[KateatRFM]

So the Times has the right to say what they want to about GM, and GM has the right to take it personally and refuse to deal with them anymore. I have no problem with that.

If advertisers on television would only do the same thing and pull their ads from television programs that preach hatred and suspicion about capitalism and business, maybe their attitude would change too.

[L.N. Smithee]

This could be a bad thing because we want news outlets to criticize corporations when they deserve criticizing, now news outlets might hold back.

If they do, they don't deserve readers or viewers.

[CFC__VRWC]

It seems GM is just using the credibility of the LA Slimes as an excuse for pulling their ads when in fact it's because someone wrote an editorial on their crummy cars.

Huge corporations like GM don't just pull the plug on tens of millions of dollars in advertising for the hell of it, or in response to one negative column in a newspaper. They've probably been putting up with far-left bashing of their products in the LA Times for many years, most of it based on little or no fact, but just grinned and bore it because they figured they were still coming out ahead by advertising there. Obviously they've decided that's no longer true.

This could be a bad thing because we want news outlets to criticize corporations when they deserve criticizing, now news outlets might hold back.

The news outlets have brought this all on themselves, thanks to their decades of pandering to the loony, marxist, envirowhack left with their endless stream of demonization and unwarranted bashing of virtually every business and industry in America. When you keep biting the hand that feeds you, don't surprised when it stops bringing the food.

[Navy Patriot]

This could be a bad thing because we want news outlets to criticize corporations when they deserve criticizing, now news outlets might hold back.

I don't think you have to worry about any of the MSM, They already covered up Saddam's genocide, torture, rape, murder, removal of WMD's, ect. for access. Compared to that, what's the crime in puttin' a little polish on a Vega?

[Jacquerie]

Freepers tend to think of newspapers as dispensers of well, news. Their primary purpose is actually to make money and to do so they must sell advertising. Unlike us, probably 90% of the typical newspaper readership couldn't care less about the editorial page. GM pays LAT to display their auto promotions not tear down their product line.

Our local little town weekly also does printing for the county and town. They never crtiicize the local pols as the printing work could be sent elsewhere. Crummy newspaper for news, but funny as it sounds, news is not the primary business of newspapers.