Fox News host takes time off as advertisers flee amid school shooting Twitter feud

Fox News show host Laura Ingrahamannounced on her show late Friday that she is taking next weekoff, after almost a dozen advertisers dropped her show after theconservative pundit mocked a teenage survivor of the Floridaschool massacre on Twitter.

Eleven companies so far have pulled their ads after apushback by Parkland student David Hogg, 17, who called for aboycott of her advertisers.

Hogg took aim at the host's show, Ingraham Angle, aftershe taunted him on Twitter on Wednesday, accusing him of whiningabout being rejected by four colleges to which he had applied.

Hogg is a survivor of the Feb. 14 mass shooting that killed17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in theParkland suburb of Fort Lauderdale. He and other classmates havebecome the faces of a new youth-led movement calling for tighterrestrictions on firearms.

Hogg tweeted a list of a dozen companies that advertise onThe Ingraham Angleand urged his supporters to demand thatthey cancel their ads.

On Thursday, Ingraham tweeted an apology "in the spirit ofHoly Week," saying she was sorry for any hurt or upset she hadcaused Hogg or any of the "brave victims" of Parkland.

But her apology did not stop companies from departing.

The companies announcing that they are cancelling their adsare: Nutrish, the pet food line created by celebrity chefRachael Ray, travel website TripAdvisor Inc, onlinehome furnishings seller Wayfair Inc., the world's largestpackaged food company, Nestle SA, online streamingservice Hulu, travel website Expedia Group Inc andonline personal shopping service Stitch Fix.

According to CBS News, four other companies joined the listFriday: the home office supply store Office Depot, the dietingcompany Jenny Craig, the Atlantis, Paradise Island resort andJohnson & Johnson which produces pharmaceuticals as well asconsumer products such as Band-Aids, Neutrogena beauty productsand Tylenol.

Hogg wrote on Twitter that an apology just to mollifyadvertisers was insufficient.

Ingraham's show runs on Fox News, part of Rupert Murdoch'sTwenty-First Century Fox Inc. A Fox News representativewas not immediately available for comment.