Backlash against Fox News host Laura Ingraham over her tweet earlier this week mocking Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg continued to intensify on Friday, as advertisers announced in droves that they are withdrawing support from Ingraham’s show.
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“She’s only apologizing after a third of her advertisers pulled out.”
—David Hogg
In total, a dozen companies—including major brands like Nestlé and Johnson & Johnson—have declared that they will no longer run ads on Ingraham’s program.
As Common Dreams reported on Thursday, Ingraham attempted to stem the outflow of advertisers by apologizing on Twitter for ridiculing the 17-year-old school shooting survivor, but few saw the apology as genuine—including Hogg himself, who rejected Ingraham’s apology in an appearance on CNN Friday morning.
“She’s only apologizing after a third of her advertisers pulled out,” Hogg told CNN host Alisyn Camerota.
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