What will the Kossacks make of the Chevron ad rotating with an in-house ad for “Crashing the Gates” at the top of Daily Kos tonight?
So far, I see no discontent. Is that an advancement or an abdication? Or an accident?
How arbitrary is it? That’s no casual “it’s just in the sidebar” BlogAd — that’s a fully integrated premium BlogAd for an international petrochemical conglomerate lording over the front page of the progressive blogosphere’s most-viewed URL.
And yet, I only found it earlier by typing dailykos.com alone into the address bar in Firefox for OS X, at say, 10:00 p.m. EDT. Otherwise, I’ve gotten this:
Can anyone duplicate the page with the Chevron media buy? As I reload, and reload, and reload, I continue to see the “Crashing the Gate” spot in the same place, over and over. Did Markos change his mind at the last moment? Did Chevron Corp. withdraw? Is it slated for release and for some reason I’m missing this will be completely non-controversial?
I guess we’ll see. Either way: Interesting agreement on Chevron’s part, and on Kos’ part as well.
Update: Apparently yes, this has already appeared and apparently was not completely ignored — but still doesn’t seem to have meant the ad’s removal from the Daily Kos ad rotation — though perhaps efforts have been made to have it be less-seen. Presumably the ad buy is just running out by this point, and that’s that. I sure hope not.
Updated again: Competing arguments from the 10/16 comment section:
The bulk of this diary is bitching about a single adverstisement on the largest pro-democratic website in the world. Somehow, from that single ad (which isn’t fooling anyone around here, by the way), the diarist states that he is one of many who are “deeply concerned that this website has become a staging ground for big oil propaganda.” That is just stupid.
I agree as well…. …I am weening myself off this site. I am stunned that Marcos would accept advertising dollars from Chevron…especially since he lives in the SF Bay Area….and has to know that Chevron is a major polluter of the SF Bay and delta regions…I was shocked to see the ad and thought it was snark…oh, well…
It will be diaried another day.
I’ve been reading these blogs long enough to read defenses of this kind of advertising. Atrios especially will say (in effect) “I don’t an ad to reflect the site’s politics to take their money. If they want to support my ideas, so be it.” I saw the Chevron ad and ignored it and I presume most folks will too.