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TripAdvisor and Expedia Pull TV Ads in Boycott of Laura Ingraham's Fox Show

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Photo Credit: Political commentator Laura Ingraham hosts a nightly show on Fox News. Travel companies are under pressure to boycott her show after a tweet she made regarding a teenager. Fox News

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Kudos to TripAdvisor and Expedia for doing the right thing in helping encourage civil discourse. Whatever one thinks about the gun policy debate, picking on a teenager's personal musings about college applications unrelated to the topic at hand is out of bounds.

Two online travel companies on Thursday said they are pulling advertising from Laura Ingraham's Fox News cable television show after comments made by the host about one of the outspoken students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. TripAdvisor, one of the largest sponsors of Ingraham's show, said it was yanking its ads. The company has spent about $414,000 on the Ingraham Angle, part of its estimated $18.2 million on national U.S. TV advertising this year, according to iSpot.tv, a research consultancy. What's more, Expedia is pulling ads as well from Ingraham's show, Expedia spokesperson Sarah Waffle Gavin confirmed. The decisions by TripAdvisor and Expedia follow a call on social media for a boycott of The Ingraham Angle. At is

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