BECK - U.K. ADVERTISER YANKS SPOTS FROM FOX NEWS

U.K. ADVERTISER YANKS SPOTS FROM FOX NEWS

Now, even advertisers in the U.K. have felt viewer outrage over comments from Fox News personality Glenn Beck. The supermarket chain Waitrose said Monday that it is pulling all its advertising off Fox News in the U.K. as a result of customer complaints about the cable news channel commentator. Beck had earlier been targeted in the U.S. over his accusation that President Obama was a "racist" who harbored "a deep-seated hatred for white people." However, Fox News had said that advertisers who objected to having their ads appear on Beck's program had agreed to have them air elsewhere on the Fox News schedule. Waitrose, however, insisting that it was responding to concerns of its customers, said it was removing all of its advertising from the channel, which is available on Sky Television, the satellite service controlled by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.

06/10/2009