GM and the L.A. Times

Gary Grates, Vice President, Communications, of GM North America has posted on their decision to pull advertising from the L.A. Times.

When we disagree, we prefer to take it up privately with the publication, as we did with the Times. We are not so naïve to expect that the media should only write positive things about GM or any other company, as some have opined.

We were one of the first companies to establish a blog where our executives could express their opinions in their own words, unfiltered by anyone else, and hear back directly from enthusiasts and others interested in what we do. Bob Lutz has stated repeatedly in this forum that criticism is welcome, and we’ve published a good amount of it, along with the praise.

But neither do we think that any business should remain mute when it sincerely believes it has been treated unfairly or attacked by reporting that is unsupported by facts and unrelated to reality. It is extremely rare that we take the kind of action we did with the Times, but it is fully within our right to spend our advertising dollars where we see fit.

G.M has not acted capriciously and they are waiting for the Times to respond before making any further comment.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 05:39 AM | Comments (1) | Add Comment