AP
June 29, 2015
A petition asking NBC to fire Donald Trump has collected more than 200,000 signatures.
Posted
on the Change.org website, the petition calls out NBC of choosing
business over "ethics, principles and values" in the wake of Trump's
recent statements when declaring his candidacy for president. Among his
remarks, the GOP hopeful portrayed immigrants from Mexico as "bringing
drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists, and some, I assume, are
good people."
Last
week, Univision, the nation's largest Spanish-language network, said it
wouldn't air the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants, which are
co-owned by Trump, and will cut all future business ties with him.
NBC
responded only by saying the company doesn't "agree with his positions
on a number of issues including his recent comments on immigration."
NBC
is co-owner with Trump of the pageants and is in business with him as
host and a producer of "The Celebrity Apprentice." A sister network of
NBC is Telemundo, another major Spanish-language TV outlet, which aired
the Miss Universe pageants before Univision won the contract.
"A
large part of your audience is Hispanic and we watch NBC, NBC News and
Telemundo," said the man who posted the petition, Guillermo Castaneda,
Jr., in addressing NBC. "How about looking out for us?"
NBC had no comment on the petition.
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