“Swingtown” airs tonight – monitoring continues

By: Steve Huston

Swingtown airs tonight. Will Dannon be advertising again? Dannon has continued their line of duplicity through yesterday.
” … And although we work diligently through our advertising agency to avoid inappropriate programming, on occasion our safeguards are inadequate. For us, that is an indication that we must redouble our efforts in this regard, and we will.

We are committed to participating in programs that reflect the high quality of our products. That is our directive to our advertising agency, and it is not negotiable. …”

See and hear:
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=170448

Lastly, this …

In the article below, Alan Sears entitles his message “Pornography Pretensions”. It is an apt name for Dannon’s duplicitous email response to the reality that Dannon’s advertising monies are helping to promote sleazy themes and harmful images.

I urge you to read Alan Sears article:

Quoting:

Always – beneath the reasons – are the reasons.

Americans have a kind of instinct for this: sensing the reality behind a facade. It was experience, not cynicism, that coined the old saw that “whenever someone tells you, ‘It’s not the money, it’s the principle of the thing’…it’s the money. …”
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanSears/2008/07/09/pornography_pretensions&Comments=true

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Sample letter to advertisers

Dear:

There have been many programs that have brought concern to American consumers. The one you are currently sponsoring is perhaps the very worst program ever aired on network television.

CBS’ “Swingtown” is a show where the entire premise is bent on legitimizing ‘open marriage’ and group sex. The message propagated over and over is that ‘everyone’ has an open marriage – it isn’t adultery – it will improve one’s marriage.

I can’t imagine a corporate decision maker discovering the perversion that this show presents continuing to advertise on this damaging, disgraceful CBS program.

Sincerely,

Advertiser list includes: Subway, Honey Nut Cherrios, Hyundai ….

20th Century Fox
Mr. Thomas Rothman – Co-Chairman
10201 West Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
Phone: 310-369-1000
Fax: 310-203-1558

The News Corporation Limited – DIRECTV
K. Rupert Murdoch – Chairman and CEO
1211 Avenue of the Americas, 8th Fl.
New York, NY 10036
Phone: 212-852-7017
Fax: 212-852-7145
website link

Hyundai Motor America
Robert Cosmai – President and CEO
10550 Talbert Ave.
Fountain Valley, CA 92728
Phone: 714-965-3000
Toll-free: 800-826-2277
Fax: 714-965-3149
projjk@hyundai-motor.com;swpark@hyundai-motor.com

Lions Gate Entertainment – Lions Gate Entertainment
Jon Feltheimer – CEO
2700 Colorado Avenue, Suite 200
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Phone: 310-449-9200
Fax: 310-255-3870
pwilkes@lgecorp.com

New Line Cinema, Inc.
Robert K Shaye – Co-Chairman and Co-CEO
888 7th Avenue
New York, NY 10106
Phone: 212-649-4900
Fax: 212-649-4966
webmaster@newline.com

Direct Holdings Worldwide, L.L.C. – TimeLife
Michael A Brennan – CEO
8280 Willow Oaks Corporate Dr.
Fairfax, VA 22031
Phone: 703-663-4500
Fax: 703-663-4545
website link

Universal Pictures
Rick Finkelstein – President and COO
100 Universal City Plaza
Universal City, CA 91608
Phone: 818-777-1000
Fax: 818-866-3600
website link

Doctors Associates Inc. – Subway – Local Advertiser
Frederick A. DeLuca – President
325 Bic Drive
Milford, CT 06460
Phone: 203-877-4281
Toll-free: 800-888-4848
Fax: 203-876-6695
website link

General Mills, Inc. – Honey Nut Cherrios – Local Advertiser
Stephen W. Sanger – CEO
1 General Mills Boulevard
Minneapolis, MN 55426
Phone: 763-764-7600
Fax: 763-764-7384
website link

Comcast Cable Communications, Inc. – Comcast Cable – Local Advertiser
Stephen B. Burke – President
1500 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102-2148
Phone: 215-665-1700
Fax: 215-981-7790
website link

Spectrum Health – Spectrum Health – Local Advertiser
Richard Breon – President
100 Michigan Street NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Phone: 616-391-1774
Fax: 616-391-2780
ContactUs@spectrum-health.org

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American Decency Association
Bill Johnson, President
P.O. Box 202
Fremont, MI 49412
ph: 231-924-4050
www.americandecency.org

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