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GM Pulls Ads From LA Times Over Coverage

HeadlineApr 11, 2005

In other media news, General Motors has announced it will temporarily stop advertising in the Los Angeles Times in protest over how the paper has covered GM, the world’s largest car company. A company spokesperson explained '’It involves news reporting, it involves opinion. It's pretty broad-based, and we’ve made our objections well known to The Times.” The decision was announced days after the paper’s Pulitzer Prize winning automobile critic Dan Neil called for the ouster of GM’s chairman and chief executive. He also took the company to task for focusing on SUVs instead of more aggressively developing fuel-efficient cars. The Wall Street Journal estimated General Motors has been spending $10 million a year on advertising in the LA Times. GM is the country’s second largest advertiser behind Proctor & Gamble.

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