Bud Light Loses Title as Top-Selling U.S. Beer

Re:Bud Light Loses Title as Top-Selling U.S. Beer by jandrese on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @03:35PM (#36331370)

I have to wonder if InBev has a case against Fox News for making an absolute mountain out of a molehill and costing Bud millions in sales. This was some malicious propaganda. Normally I wouldn't expect anything to come of it, but InBev has deep pockets and a lot of lawyers on call and they might want to set an example of Fox News.

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Re:Bud Light Loses Title as Top-Selling U.S. Beer by JimtheCoder on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @04:01PM (#36331750)

"for making an absolute mountain out of a molehill"

Well, it obviously wasn't a molehill if it had this effect on their sales, was it?

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Re:Bud Light Loses Title as Top-Selling U.S. Beer by jandrese on Thursday June 15, 2023 @10:12AM (#36340790)

Yes, propaganda is effective. That’s the point I was trying to make.

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Re:Bud Light Loses Title as Top-Selling U.S. Beer by druidish on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @04:08PM (#36331838)

Fox was reporting on a boycott, not creating it. You could sooner sue Instagram or Facebook for hosting content that promoted/organized a boycott, but if you want to side with a multi billion dollar corporation trying to make boycotting illegal/financially ruinous for a consumer, that seems rather fascist. And I’m gay and not trying to justify whatever, but I don’t necessarily want to see the concept of a boycott become illegal lol, that’s not very progressive. You can’t force people to buy your product.

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