"The thing I don't get is how advertisers can still be sticking with some of these media outlets."

This puzzles me as well. You'd have thought it might have occurred to the advertisers that they're losing potential sales, even without folk phoning or e-mailing to protest. I mean, Pam and I boycott a fair number of products on the basis of where they advertise; and if we're doing there must be millions of others doing the same.

Perhaps the advertisers think their products' main hope of finding a market is with stupid people?