Reports: Nissan set to quit Footy Show sponsorship over Sam Newman’s remarks
Car maker Nissan is reportedly preparing to quit its sponsorship of the Channel Nine Footy Show, following controversial remarks made last week by host Sam Newman.
According to The Age, Nissan has told Nine the comments do not align with its “core values” and is set to terminate its sponsorship deal of The Footy Show at the end of the 2016 AFL season after Newman, last week, launched a tirade defending his friend and cohost Eddie McGuire over remarks he had made about drowning sports journalist Caroline Wilson.
The newspaper claims senior Nissan executives and Nine management, including Melbourne sales director Matt Scriven, met at the car giant’s Dandenong headquarters on Thursday.
Get a life people what is Australia coming to we can’t joke because every second person hasn’t got a sense of humor anymore you carnt say good morning to anyone anymore before u get the what the f… look we are becoming sad sad people
I’d say, eating a raw onion in public is on par with Newman’s ‘joke’.
Very hard to image which advertiser could align values with Newman. He’s so far out of touch he should be in a museum.
The story should only be that Nissan HAVE dumped the contract, not ‘looking to’ or ‘are set to’ or ‘are having serious talks with’ etc. Otherwise they just get publicity for looking like the good guys when they may have not any intention to end sponsorship. As per Holden’s faux show of outrage over Eddie.
Another day… another unacceptable incident involving a journalist making derogatory comments about a woman to gain headlines.
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