JPMorgan Pulls Ads From NBC News After Megyn Kelly's "Repulsive" Alex Jones Interview

While Megyn Kelly"s interview with Russian President (and all around global bad guy if one were to believe the daily barrage of leftist headlines)  Vladimir Putin did not raise the ire of advertisers, it appears her interview with right-wing provocateur Alex Jones has lurched from social media firestorm to real-world dollars and cents for NBC News.

The sit-down has been promoted as a discussion about “controversies and conspiracies.”

In a video promoting the interview, Jones talks about the 9/11 attacks as an “inside job.” In the clip, Kelly also brings up Sandy Hook, saying: “When you say parents faked their children’s deaths, people get very angry.” Jones replies: “But they don’t get angry about half-a-million dead Iraqis from the sanctions.”

Next Sunday, I sit down with conservative radio host @RealAlexJones to discuss controversies and conspiracies #SundayNight June 18 on NBC pic.twitter.com/7bVz6Fobf5

— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) June 11, 2017

And now, as The Wall Street Journal reports, J.P. Morgan has asked for its local TV ads and digital ads to be removed from Kelly’s show and from all NBC news programming until after the show airs, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The company doesn’t want any of its ads to appear adjacent to any promotions for the interview, the person added.

This comes hours after Kristin Lemkau, J.P. Morgan’s chief marketing officer, questioned why Ms. Kelly would conduct the interview.

“As an advertiser, I’m repulsed that @megynkelly would give a second of airtime to someone who says Sandy Hook and Aurora are hoaxes."

As an advertiser, I"m repulsed that @megynkelly would give a second of airtime to someone who says Sandy Hook and Aurora are hoaxes. Why? https://t.co/luwyCwP7Ti

— Kristin Lemkau (@KLemkau) June 12, 2017

On his radio program Monday,  Jones said that he thinks Sandy Hook happened, or at least that children died, though there are anomalies about the event. However, he said that was edited from the NBC promotion. “I’m tired of being misrepresented,” Jones said and added that he demanded Kelly’s “hit piece” not air on Father’s Day.

WSJ reports that other NBC advertisers have stayed mum on the planned episode, at least publicly.

If You Made a ’10 Concerts I Went to, One Is a Lie’ Post, We Have News for You

(ANTIMEDIA) On Sunday, the New York Times asked its readers if they took part in the latest viral meme — the “10 Concerts I’ve Been To, One is a Lie” post — that swept across Facebook last week.

But the piece wasn’t about the meme itself. It was about the potential threat to personal privacy and security that participating in such games poses.

“It’s all fun and games until someone’s password security question gets hacked,” the article opens.

Speaking about social media, Michael Kaiser, executive director of the National Cyber Security Alliance, says the real danger in taking part in such online games is broad — it’s in all the various types of general information that people voluntarily reveal about their personal lives and their upbringing.

“You are expressing things about you, maybe in more subtle ways than you might think,” he told the Times.

That doesn’t mean you should never participate, says Kaiser, only that you should always be aware of the kind of information you’re sharing.

“People always have to have their eyes wide open when they’re on the internet,” he said. “It’s the way of the world.”

Mark Testoni, who advises exercising “vigilance bordering on a little paranoia” when participating in games like “10 Concerts,”  is chief executive at SAP National Security Services.

“We need to understand how we interact can disclose not only specific details but patterns of behavior and often our location, among other things,” Testoni said in an email.

And if cyber security isn’t of particular concern to you, the Times reminded readers Sunday that there are other things to consider, such as the fact that uploading details of your life to social media telegraphs “information about a user’s age, musical tastes and even religious affiliation — all of which would be desirable to marketers hoping to target ads.”

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