{"id":2497,"date":"2016-11-14T08:51:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T14:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cuchicago.edu\/spectator\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2016-11-14T08:51:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T14:51:07","slug":"hate-comes-at-a-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/?p=2497","title":{"rendered":"Hate comes at a cost."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lego has recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/lego-ends-advertising-daily-mail-stop-funding-hate-campaign-a7413361.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> that it will no longer place advertisements in <em>The Daily Mail<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Lego is the first major company to respond to a social network campaign called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stopfundinghate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stop Funding Hate<\/a> which urges big companies (primarily in the UK) to pull their advertisements and support for newspapers that sell fear to sell papers.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is that newspapers publish stories with headlines of controversy. An example being a father in the UK and his concern for <em>The Daily Mail\u2019s<\/em> discussion on Brexit, which was the UK separating from the European Union. The article was said to do \u201cnothing but create distrust of foreigners, blame immigrants for everything\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite being started in focus with news throughout the UK, Stop Funding Hate hopes to spread awareness of the content some newspapers promote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lego has recently announced that it will no longer place advertisements in The Daily Mail. Lego is the first major company to respond to a social network campaign called Stop Funding Hate which urges big companies (primarily in the UK) to pull their advertisements and support for newspapers that sell fear to sell papers. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}