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To: kjvail

In the last telephone campaign the Star had to get readers to buy subscriptions I told the girl on the phone that I don't read liberal newspapers. She said, then how will you get your news?...we are the biggest news source in Indiana, blah blah blah. I said there are better ways...hehehe.


26 posted on 01/07/2006 6:08:50 PM PST by Earthdweller ("West to Islam" Cake. Butter your liberals, slowly cook France, stir in Europe then watch it rise.)
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To: Earthdweller
I cancelled my subscription when they posted the incorrect story on the Supreme Court decision over the 2000 election. They listed the decision as 5/4 (with graphics including pictures of each judge) when it should have been 7/2 for the important decision, and 5/4 for whether there could be a remedy.

When I called to complain, the managing editor told me that they were working under deadline and that is why they didn't include the correct decision. I told him that I had been watching LIVE on Fox and I knew when the decision was made, and if they didn't have a reporter watching the TV they were incompetent. PLUS they didn't have time to get the story right but had time to insert all the fancy pictures and charts.

I hate what they have become. My grandad was a pressman for them for 50 years. I wrote for the Teen Star when I was in high school. My brother worked there as an electrician during his apprenticeship, and my sister worked in their graphics department for several years back in the 70's. It pained me to cancel; I actually cried about it. I don't regret doing so, though. They have become a partisan hack paper, and the fact that they still employ that communist Dan Carpenter is proof that they are not the paper the Pulliams owned.

28 posted on 01/07/2006 8:39:55 PM PST by Miss Marple (Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's son and keep him strong.)
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