Lowe’s Backlash Continues: New Jersey’s Largest Newspaper Calls For A Boycott

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By: Jon Bershad | Mediaite.com

On Monday, when we first covered the controversy over Lowe’s relenting to pressure and pulling its ads from TLC’s All-American Muslim, I wrote “Here’s a fun experiment. Let’s find out what hurts a company more; advertising in front of a TV show that features Muslim people or cowardly kowtowing to bigots!” At the time, I was being fairly facetious, assuming the whole sickening episode would be forgotten by late afternoon. However, this story has had surprising legs and has built up an impressively big backlash against Lowe’s. Now, The Star-Ledger, the largest New Jersey newspaper, has called for a boycott of the hardware store chain in a blunt and forceful editorial.































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