Features Jul 12, 2017 at 4:00 am

As Local Politicians and Amazon Employees Demand He Drop Ads from the Alt-Right Site, Seattle's Largest Private Employer Remains Silent

Eli Sanders

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The MSM truly is fake, so... there's that.
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Huh?
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More people get their news from online "alternative media" sites like Breitbart and The Drudge Report than watch MSM TV news or read newspapers, and it is not even close.

Advertisers are going to go where the eyes are. One thing that can actually work though is calling the company and telling them explicitly that as long as they advertise on such sites you will not be buying their products.

They get enough calls and letters, and they will pull ads.
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@3 you are correct, and "Left" bias sites like Huff Po and WaPo and NyTimes online and Slate etc, are equally susceptible to "the will of selected offended individuals/groups" expressing their singular and/or collective outrages and slights....like Trumpys boycotting Nordy's for pulling Ivanka's products, etc,,,it just goes round n round n round and ultimately, unless it's huge numbers, nothing really changes, but protest and boycott away,,,,why not?b
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"ethical consumption" >_
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@1 & @3 swallowed the propaganda pill. Maybe they should read up on their ASS-ertions of bias before spouting off their nonsense. Its basically them (the alt-right), listening only to them, while the rest of us laugh at them.

http://news.wgbh.org/2017/03/15/politics…
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@6: Try actually reading next time.

I don't get my news rom those sources, but a huge number of people do. Nowhere in my comment did I specify ideologies, nor was it applicable to the point that went flying far over your head while you were patting yourself on the back so hard.
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@7: It is hard to really say (especially since Nielsen ratings are so problematic), but the current methods we use to measure these things suggests that "alternative media" (also problematic as you state), is generating more traffic overall than things considered "MSM."

But this is partially also due to the MSM relying a lot on TV and newspapers, which are dying off among young people, and the fact that it is easier to start and get views as an "alternative" outlet than a "mainstream" one. As you can see, you featured the top two "alternative" venues, but some of the top four "MSM" outlets. But there are a lot more "alternative" outlets out there, and that traffic matters too.

Alexis rankings also change a lot, there are times when Brietbart has beaten WaPo, CNN, NBC, etc.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-ar…

But it is kind of irrelevant to large advertisers like Amazon anyway, that are just going to buy space wherever there are enough people.
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I am and have always been an Amazon skeptic (in Seattle that makes me a heretic possibly subject to being burned alive on a stake). But, I deeply distrust the "take over the world" agenda of its founder and leader. I'm deeply suspicious about all the personal data Amazon has in its possession and what it might be used for someday.

Since, I'm not looking for an Amazon job or to make money off of Amazon employees, I'm free to view it objectively and really don't like what I see. It's not surprising that Amazon won't stop advertising on Breitbart. It would advertise with ISIS if it could. This mini-universe is the epitome of out-of-control capitalism. Many of its practices are actually hurting people indirectly.

At some point, the government is going to be reluctantly forced into the position of breaking up this behemoth, just as it had to do with the old AT&T empire. It will drag its feet as long as it can before doing so. Amazon hasn't piled up enough corpses yet.
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This is so ridiculous.

- Breitbart has objectionable content, so what? It's a free press.
- Amazon wants to sell ads on sites with objectionable content. So what? It's a free market.

So many more important things for progressive libs to pout about.
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* ..put ads on sites...
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Sure, it sounds great to have prominent, influential businesses taking partisan stances & conducting business according to them when you agree with them, but isn't that also what Hobby Lobby, Chick-Fil-A, and pharmacists who refuse to fill birth control prescriptions do?
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@12 TRUE, but if folks want to protest such, in your words, so what?
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Breitbart is an abomination, but so are billboard trucks. No one should advertise on either of them.
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@15: Yes, that is true as well.

You got me there.
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I read Breitbart and buy from Amazon. I have millions of dollars from AMZN stock because Amazon sells so much with Breitbart.
It's a vicious cycle.

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