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More words. More letters. No more Ann Coulter.
Arizona daily star ^ | 08/28/05 | David Stoeffler

Posted on 08/29/2005 12:39:06 PM PDT by Pikamax

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To: Pikamax
Finally, we've decided that syndicated columnist Ann Coulter has worn out her welcome. Many readers find her shrill, bombastic and mean-spirited. And those are the words used by readers who identified themselves as conservatives.

I tend to agree. Coulter is beloved by many conservatives because, well, she's blonde and attractive.

She's a lightweight (no pun intended).

21 posted on 08/29/2005 12:48:45 PM PDT by Modernman ("A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy." -Disraeli)
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To: dirtboy
Yep, seminar callers and writers are almost always "but-monkeys."
22 posted on 08/29/2005 12:50:04 PM PDT by colorado tanker (The People Have Spoken)
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To: frogjerk

Of course.... Liberals never identify themselves as liberals.

But it all comes down to circulation. If the Star's circulation improves, then it was a good decision.

Somehow, though, the fact that Mr. Stoeffler says they were conservatives suggests to me that he's a liberal. I don't know how that's ultimately going to play in Arizona.


23 posted on 08/29/2005 12:50:39 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Myrddin

ah, I know the kind - it sounds like the milwaukee journal / sentintel. Cicrulation keeps dropping, they keep adding liberal columinsts and journalists, they run specials, and they can't figure out why fewer and fewer people subscribe to their trash.

It's a paper that has (had) larger subscriber numbers, but their narrow attitude turned it into a small-time operation.


24 posted on 08/29/2005 12:51:48 PM PDT by flashbunny (Always remember to bring a towel!)
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To: frogjerk

Of course they did! They have emails from 1973 to prove it!


25 posted on 08/29/2005 12:52:34 PM PDT by Gumlegs
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To: Modernman
You reach a derogatory qualitative judgment that Anne is a lightweight.

Why do you say that? What underpins your obviously unpopular opinion?
26 posted on 08/29/2005 12:54:03 PM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitor)
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To: Pikamax
With more or less equal legs, the newspaper can stand taller and reach higher.

Equal legs? Ann has gams that go to the sky (a little thin perhaps, but very long).

27 posted on 08/29/2005 12:54:05 PM PDT by llevrok (No bozos on this bus.)
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To: Pikamax

So if three liberals called in and said, "Doonsbury sucks." he'd remove that too?

What's the phone number?


28 posted on 08/29/2005 12:54:52 PM PDT by anonymous_user (You gotta be passionate about something. I guess.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

They are just doing the same thing the NY Times does to justify their agenda.

Step 1) Carefully craft your OP-ED section to reflect a majority of liberalism and support of democrats. About a 90% liberal to 10% conservative ratio.

Step 2) Now report the news heavily biased towards the left.

Step 3) The liberal readers get a feeling of self-affirmation that their agenda is what the majority of america believes and supports.



29 posted on 08/29/2005 12:56:10 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican
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To: Blueflag
Why do you say that? What underpins your obviously unpopular opinion?

I've read her shrill books and articles. I'm not impressed.

Her writing is of the same level as, say, Michael Moore and Al Franken. Does she make some points? Sure. But she is just the ideological other side of the political coin from those guys.

30 posted on 08/29/2005 12:56:24 PM PDT by Modernman ("A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy." -Disraeli)
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To: Pikamax
Running a newspaper is something like building a three-legged stool.

In other words, only a fool would do so.

31 posted on 08/29/2005 12:56:56 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Pikamax
Bet his mailbox gets a lot of letters saying,

"No more subscription."

32 posted on 08/29/2005 12:57:11 PM PDT by George Smiley (This tagline deliberately targeted journalists.)
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To: Pikamax

"We need to understand and satisfy a broad audience. "

Translation: We need to pander to certain political pressure groups and manipulate the thought processes of those too naive to recognize propaganda for what it is.

Fortunately, talk radio, FOX News and the Internet have made major media journalism like this irrelevant, superfluous and most of all, exposed for what it is.


33 posted on 08/29/2005 12:57:33 PM PDT by ZULU (Fear the government which fears your guns. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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To: Brilliant

I wonder why he didn't decide to drop any liberal columnists for a faux sense of balance. Weren't there any liberal columnists these conservative complainers wanted off those opinion pages?


34 posted on 08/29/2005 12:57:36 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (The repenting soul is the victorious soul)
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To: frogjerk; Pikamax; Diana in Wisconsin; flashbunny; michaelbfree; kaktuskid; dirtboy
And you believed they were conservatives...OK.

Please join me in taking a moment to write Mr. Stoeffler and let him know he's either been duped by libs posing as conservatives, or he's a lib posing as an honest publisher & editor.

dstoeffler@azstarnet.com

35 posted on 08/29/2005 12:57:37 PM PDT by demkicker ((Life has many choices. Eternity has only two. Which one have you chosen?))
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To: threeleftsmakearight
Ann Coulter mean-spirited, bombastic and shrill.

The Lady Ann is rather soft on the Left. I refer to them as pond scum sucking morons who have a lesser right to breathe God's clean air than a typhoid carrying weasel.

Regards, Ivan

36 posted on 08/29/2005 12:58:58 PM PDT by MadIvan (You underestimate the power of the Dark Side - http://www.sithorder.com/)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin; frogjerk
Many readers find her shrill, bombastic and mean-spirited. And those are the words used by readers who identified themselves as conservatives.

One more typical lie by the left. The liberal editor hears from other anonymous lefties posing as Republicans that they really hate Ann Coulter.

37 posted on 08/29/2005 12:59:44 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator (This space outsourced to India)
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To: flashbunny
sounds like a small time paper.

...about to get smaller.

38 posted on 08/29/2005 12:59:59 PM PDT by 6SJ7
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To: Modernman

IMO any thoughtful person would swap Snow for Coulter in a heartbeat regardless of what they think of the editorial director's politics.


39 posted on 08/29/2005 1:00:07 PM PDT by Protagoras (My liberal neighbor is more dangerous to my freedom than Osama Bin Laden.)
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To: Pikamax
gotta have pics... It's the Rule...
40 posted on 08/29/2005 1:00:47 PM PDT by pageonetoo (You'll spot their posts soon enough!)
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