Advertising Age's Ken Wheaton totally nails the AP's David Bauder. I mean, totally nails him.
Cable Gamers will recall that various lefty groups have been trying to boycott Fox for a while now. TCG opposes boycotts on principle, but OK, they happen.
But Wheaton, writing under the headline "MoveOn Gets Someone to Bite on Faux Fox Protest," catches Bauder simply parroting lefty propaganda. Because Bauder is ideologically sympathetic and can't restrain himself? Or because Bauder is simply lazy, and is grateful that MoveOn could simply spoonfeed him some news? Interesting questions.
Here's Wheaton:
What's left unsaid in the AP piece is that MoveOn has been pitching this story for weeks now. According to the AP piece, "the groups want to first concentrate on businesses running local ads, as opposed to national commercials." That seems to contradict the AP's own story which points out that the groups have been trying, with absolutely no success, to target Home Depot.
Wheaton continues:
By its own admission in press materials, this is the "fourth stage" of MoveOn's attempt to take down the "Republican spin machine."
In other words, this is an on old story, and an old story about a not-successful boycott crusade. Ergo, according to Wheaton, "it isn't news."
David Bauder has done a lot of good reporting. TCG hopes that he will get back to journalism, as opposed to being a stenographer for a lefty pressure group.
