misc media: advertiser pissed at story, so..

[danny burstein]

WUSA, DC station (formerly CBS, now, umm, TEGNA, kills story on dangers
of gas stoves.. (fwd)

reason: alleged pressure from advertiser, the local gas utility

https://bsky.app/profile/emorwee.bsky.social/post/3lbxhzya63c2p

https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/754087/did-washington-gas-convince-a-tv-station-to-bury-a-story-on-the-dangers-of-gas-appliances/

https://heated.world/p/dc-news-station-quietly-scrubs-stories

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[Jim Ellwanger]

CBS only had minority ownership of that station briefly in the early 1950s - they're most famous for having been owned by the Washington Post/Post-Newsweek Stations.

[Mike Ward]

When there was a shooting in the food court, a popular Sacramento shopping mall threatened to pull all of their advertising from KFBK...if we didn't stop covering the story immediately. 

We did NOT give in. 

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[danny burstein]

On Fri, 29 Nov 2024, Mike Ward wrote:

> When there was a shooting in the food court, a popular Sacramento
> shopping mall threatened to pull all of their advertising from KFBK...if
> we didn't stop covering the story immediately.

Can't find a copy of it onilne, and it's been decades since
I had the printed editions, but MAD Magazine did a spoof of
how advertising affects coverage.

One strip I remamber was the "before" and "after", so to
speak, image/captioning of an arsonist pouring a can of gasoline
into, and then torching his store for the insurance.

In the first panel, the caption was straightforward.

The revised panel, once they found out he or his company
was a BIG advertisor, described the heroic store owner
attempting to put out the fire with what he thought was
a 5 gallon can of water, but he had mistakenly grabbed
some gasoline insted.

[Richard de Give]

Then there was my stint in Lake Havasau City, where we had an editorial on how great an auto maker's employee pricing program was.