Zurawik: Parkland’s Hogg Is ‘Smart Enough’ to Know What Will Hurt Ingraham

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ZURAWIK: "Well, Brian, I agree with let’s meet their speech with more speech. But in the world of commercial media, nothing is more powerful than an advertiser boycott. The first commandment is thou shalt not lose your advertisers. So, if you feel you’re a high school student and somebody of her stature is taunting you on Twitter — look, there’s two things about these students at Parkland that just fascinate me. One, they have a great moral authority that most people in the media don’t have. And they have it because of what they went through, seeing classmates killed and then having to mourn and bury their classmates and go on with their life. That’s a great moral authority. They’re also, especially David Hogg and some of the others, incredibly media savvy in a good, good way. So, why you would go after someone like that and not expect the fiercest kind of push back that he or she can generate doesn’t make sense. So, in a way, look, you’re talking about a high school student. He’s smart enough to know what will hurt Laura Ingraham. And, by the way, you’re so right. It was almost a week — you negotiation April 12th. Same language in the headlines, preplanned vacation that Bill O’Reilly left year. On the 19th, they fired him. So, that’s a chilling precedent."