re: Seattle pastor claims newspaper canceled church's Easter service ad after CEO objected

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Seattle pastor claims newspaper canceled church's Easter service ad after CEO objected

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Someone at the paper isn't going to receive their blethens.

Did the pastor get his money back?

A respected and reputable newspaper wouldn’t cancel an ad but keep the money used to reserve it. $18,500 should be nothing to the Seattle Times

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Complaining about a private business doing whatever it wants isn’t “fighting back” against anything.

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This isn't a private business "doing whatever it wants." The newspaper voluntarily entered into a contract agreement with the church. They subsequently broke the contract based on nothing more than the CEO's emotions. The entire economy runs on the expectation that people will honor contracts.

I hope the church sues the frick out of them

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Do we have the contract?

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Haven't seen it.

Whatever the CEO did, according to his own employees as quoted in the OP, was unprecedented in the newspaper's existence.

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Godlessness is what the new generation of American produces.

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and it shows... Our Christian Nation is loosing it's moral compass and values only to become more and more like Sodom and Gomora under this this called progress and tolerance.

I don't think any where in the bible it recommends drag queens reading to Children or defunding the police.

Wonder if this was a Muslim requesting something similar if the paper would have done the same thing?

LOL JK that's a rhetorical question. Progressives want to eliminate Christians. Everyone else is just fine.

It would be interesting to see an image of the ad.

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OK, so we don't really know if the church has anything to stand on.

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This is a good place to start

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Whatever the CEO did, according to his own employees as quoted in the OP, was unprecedented in the newspaper's existence.

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No one from the newspaper is claiming that there was no contract, or that the contract allowed for it to be violated based on the personal views of the CEO.

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The ad's original messaging mentioning "Hell" and "revival" was altered after it was rejected by the paper, but a modified version of the ad was finally accepted and paid for on March 19, the emails reportedly showed.

However, Johnson said the contract was canceled the following day, just two days before the ad was to be published.

He claimed the marketing team told him that "the owner [Frank Blethen] personally stepped in today and canceled your ad." He was told the prominent religious ad would hurt the company's reputation.

"They said, ‘You know, it didn’t really fit with the ethic of the paper.’ However, the marketing team told me in all of their years of doing advertising for The Seattle Times, this has never once happened, where the owner and the CEO personally stepped in at the last minute to cancel a signed contract," Johnson told Rantz.

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It'll be interesting to watch this shake out if this is what they're relying on.

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Let me ask you a real-life question. Have you ever entered into a contractual agreement with a business? You know, they promised to do XYZ and you promised to pay X amount. If so, what was it?

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Many contracts, and I would not be surprised this contract, where the buyer has no leverage, reserve the right to terminate for any reason or no reason.

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Could be. But I keep going back to the quote from the employees that this had never happened before at that newspaper. And they quote the CEO as being personally offended by the ad. Just based on what we know, I'd say the newspaper is in deep doo doo.