[Ron in Acreage]

I've been calling for all Freepers to cancel their pro-Kerry and pro-democrap papers for years now. I hope they tell the Philly pukes to "shove it". Very Heinzish term they can understand.

[Drango]

Would you like to come in and talk about it?

I don't buy it for a second...I once called an editor at the SF Chron to complained about an editorial....He basically told me to get lost. I canceled.

[Congressman Billybob]

I sent the following letter to the Editor of the Inquirer. I'll follow up if there is any response.

Dear Ms. Bennett,

I have just read an article in your newspaper about a process of listing former subscribers and having staff members contact them to find out why they have rejected your newspaper. The article ends with the following, incredible lines:

> It is too early in the dialing process to present any results or plans for future discourse, Mr. Satullo said. But he said that he relished the dialogue with readers, adding that he tried to steer them away from using the terms "bias" and "objectivity."

> "Those terms have been drained of any stable meaning," he said.

Though my principal activity in my career has been practicing law in the US Supreme Court, I have kept my hand in, in journalism for 41 years. All told, I've published about three million words, not including legal briefs which, fairly assessed, are not written in English. So there is a basis for what follows:

My conclusions from that coda in your paper to that article are threefold: I trust the quote is accurate, since your reporter is quoting one of your own. Any person who would say such a thing should not be employed by any reputable news outlet. And any news outlet which saw fit to retain the services of such a person should lose its readers, listeners, viewers (as the case ma be) and go out of business.

Since I've had prior correspondence with Mr. Satullo and find him to be as clueless in person as he seems in writing, I have not written to him on this occasion. You may, of course, share this with him.

Although I have written this to you personally, you are welcome to treat this as an ordinary letter to the editor.

I have provided my address in case you choose to respond. I would be interested to know whether you are seriously interested in the pending demise of your newspaper.

Sincerely,

Billybob

[Physicist]

But he said that he relished the dialogue with readers, adding that he tried to steer them away from using the terms "bias" and "objectivity." "Those terms have been drained of any stable meaning," he said.

Earth to Inky: WORDS MEAN THINGS. Moreover, words are your stock in trade. "Bias" and "objectivity" may mean nothing to you, but they mean something to the rest of us. Look into them.

[I_be_tc]

Okay, okay, okay. How about instead of bias, we use "prejudice"? Or do you think they would better understand the french translation.."polarisation"? We are gonna have to be more creative with our thesaurus. They are getting tired of bias (maybe the book title scares them).

TC

[jackbill]

The only reason why many people subscribe to rags like the Inquirer is the coupons.

I stopped subscribing to the Baltimore Sun over 20 years ago and I love it when I get a call from them to resubscribe. Never mind that it's only a telemarketer calling, I still love to rant at them.

[SevenofNine]

SHUT UP PHILLY INqurior editor

I don't know about you guys I be throw f-bomb at this guy on the phone

Trust me he wouldn't want me meet in person to person

[Jorge]

"We did our job rather forcefully in supporting Kerry....

Losers supporting losers.

[weshess]

I was called by the Inq, I told them that if my Bird refused to use it why would I have it around the house?

[Congressman Billybob]

I just got the following note back from the Editor of the Inquirer:

Dear Mr. Armor
I'm afraid I don't know what you are talking about. No such article or quote has appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer that I am aware of.

Sorry I can't help you.

Sincerely,
Amanda Bennett

--------------------------
Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld

I wrote back to thank her for replying. I noted that I was wrong to think the posted article was in the Inquirer, that instead it was in the NT Times. Other than that, I stood by my e-mail to her.

Will report if I receive any further reply.

Billybob

[RJL]

he said that he relished the dialogue with readers, adding that he tried to steer them away from using the terms "bias" and "objectivity."

He wants to discuss why you cancelled their newspaper, so long as it doesn't include "bias" or "objectivity"?

Why bother talking with them at all?

They should just make conversations up, it will be a lot closer to want they want to hear.

[searchandrecovery]

I stopped buying the inky about 7 years ago due to its AWM (anti-white male) tendencies.

[rockrr]

I put together a "21 reasons why I won't buy your rag" for the Seattle Times a few years back.

Funny, but the phone solicitors never seem to last much past 7 or 8....

[SwatTeam]

Circulation is so bad here a young man came by yesterday trying to sell me the paper for 18 bucks for 13 weeks. They are regularly at Wal-Mart trying to give away daily copies.

[ChicagoHebrew]

I wonder how bad the Inquier is being hurt by the launch of the new Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. The Bulletin relaunched precisely to create a centre-right alternative to the Inquier. Sort of like a New York Sun for Philly -- neoconservative, centre-right, and with a large Jewish influence (Daniel Pipes is involved in the project).

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/10249885.htm

http://www.theeveningbulletin.com/

http://jewishexponent.com/Zoom.asp?storyID=23400&szparent=16&pubID=291&Archive=

http://www.bermanlaw.com/weblogs/sma2/archives/000800.php

[BerniesFriend]

lol..make sure they didn't say.."We know where you live..I hope your tires aren't slashed"..lol..:)

[weegee]

'Inky' Eds Work Phones to Reach Subscribers Who Quit Over Kerry Backing

[mewzilla]

...adding that he tried to steer them away from using the terms "bias" and "objectivity."

"Those terms have been drained of any stable meaning," he said.

That attitude says it all.

[bert]

One wonders about connections between the leftist news paper and the left leaning organized crime controlled unions.

Do the Maifiaized unions thugs patrol the halls of the Inquirer?

[Temple Owl]

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