BLM, GLAAD Join 40 Progressive Groups Calling for Fox News Ad Boycott (Exclusive)

Over 40 progressive organizations, including the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation and GLAAD, on Tuesday released an open letter urging media buyers not to buy advertisements on Fox News or risk damaging the reputation of their brands.

“Fox News has already made clear what you can expect from the network next year: more Tucker, more lies, more extremism, and more racism,” the groups say, according to an advance copy of the letter obtained by TheWrap. “Use this inflection point to quietly part ways with Fox News.”

The letter points to top-rated primetime programming from Tucker Carlson to make its case that the leading cable news network spent the past year “pushing deadly lies about COVID-19, routinely broadcasting racist rhetoric, and questioning the outcome of the election while putting democracy in peril.”.

Media Matters for America, long a critic of Fox News, organized the open letter and assembled a coalition of progressive partners that includes the Center for American Progress Action Fund, the Center for Media and Democracy, CHANGE, Indivisible, MoveOn, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Sleeping Giants, UltraViolet and the Women’s March.

“When the next inevitable Fox News outrage emerges, the advertisers and media buyers that stuck with Fox News during this critical decision period will need to explain why they actively chose to continue to enable Fox News’ extremism,” Media Matters president Angelo Carusone told TheWrap Tuesday. “The advertisers that choose to recommit to Fox News will end up being the ones to pay the reputational price for Fox’s lies and extremism.”

A Fox News spokesperson told TheWrap Tuesday, “Fox News is about to close out its fourth consecutive year delivering new records in advertising revenue, so clearly Media Matters’ predictable ongoing partisan attacks have zero impact outside of their irrelevant echo chamber on social media..”