[lesser_satan]

One less reason to buy the glorified piece of ^sswipe, I suppose.

[GeronL]

we should start putting these things out of business, or finish it as it were

[Zhang Fei]

This is truly moronic. Newspapers are already losing advertising revenues hand over fist to Google and other online venues. Now they’re rejecting advertising? Talk about looking a gift horse in the mouth.

[beelzepug]

That’s the beauty of the free enterprise system. You’re also free to cut your own throat.
They have a right to refuse the advertizing. You have the right to do all the things you’ve listed above. The market will sort it out.

[PAR35]

We need to tell those that advertise with the Roanoke Times that we will not be doing business with them until they stop such advertising.

That's the only suggested tactic that might be effective.

[SIDENET]

I’m surprised that any newspaper feels that it can afford to turn down advertising.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Well, the lib-run Roanoke Times is in the wrong part of the Commonwealth to be doing this kind of stupid stuff. Other than the liberal bastion of Blacksburg (because of Virginia Tech), the rest of the area is hard core Conservative, and this is a good way to keep on offending potential subscribers. Last time I checked the rag was still in trouble, with its readership in the tank, largely because of the last stunt it pulled, with the gun owners database.

Let it sink...I read the much more Conservative Bristol Herald Courier for my regional news anyway.

[Renegade]

My letter to the Roanoke Times !

” As a parent of a Virginia Tech graduate, I think that your decision to not run gun show ads is STUPID! This posture against firearms is one of the many of the reasons people are leaving the news in print world and reading the news on the NET ! You are going the way of the dinosaurs . “