On Fri, 29 Nov 2024, Mike Ward wrote:
When there was a shooting in the food court, a popular Sacramento shopping mall threatened to pull all of their advertising from KFBK...if we didn't stop covering the story immediately.
Can't find a copy of it onilne, and it's been decades since I had the printed editions, but MAD Magazine did a spoof of how advertising affects coverage. One strip I remamber was the "before" and "after", so to speak, image/captioning of an arsonist pouring a can of gasoline into, and then torching his store for the insurance. In the first panel, the caption was straightforward. The revised panel, once they found out he or his company was a BIG advertisor, described the heroic store owner attempting to put out the fire with what he thought was a 5 gallon can of water, but he had mistakenly grabbed some gasoline insted.
