coool!! i never seen a frog reach out the pot and turn up the heart afore...
Posted on 07/27/2006 3:40:03 PM PDT by abb
NEW YORK Newsroom employees of the Santa Barbara News-Press who are seeking union representation in the wake of the recent editor resignations have launched a campaign asking subscribers to cancel their subscriptions if the union is not recognized.
The cancellation campaign is being waged by the same group of editorial employees who have asked to be represented by the Graphic Communications Conference of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The group began handing out postcards last weekend to local readers that ask the paper to cancel their subscription if the union is not recognized and a contract is not negotiated.
"We have handed out probably 8,000 postcards," said Melinda Burns, a 20-year staff writer and one of the campaign's leaders. "Some people have just signed them on the spot. We don't know how many we have gotten, but it is hundreds, we are hoping to get thousands."
Organizers are asking subscribers to fill out the cards and send them to the would-be union group. Burns said they plan to collect as many of the cancellation cards as possible by Sept. 5, then turn them in to the newspaper.
Each card states that the person filling it out supports the "Santa Barbara News-Press newsroom staff in its effort to restore journalistic integrity to the paper, obtain union recognition and negotiate a fair employment contract. Cancel my subscription on Sept. 5, 2006 if the employees' demands have not been met to their satisfaction."
The postcard image also is available on a Web site the group has created.
Hundreds of subscribers have cancelled subscriptions since the mass resignation of editors that began July 6, newspaper executives have said. Those quitting included former editor Jerry Roberts, five lower editors, and a longtime columnist and investigative reporter. The resignations were in response to accusations of meddling by owner Wendy McCaw and publisher Travis Armstrong, and have received national interest.
McCaw has since denied the complaints of meddling and stated that some staffers left over a difference in news judgment. She also has said that bias had crept into some reporting.
The GCC wing of the Teamsters, which also represents editorial employees at Newsday in Melville, N.Y., has not received any response from the News-Press indicating it plans to recognize the union, Burns said. That, she said, has prompted the cancellation campaign.
"I don't know whether we have a goal," Burns said about the number of cancellations sought. "I think the advertisers might be interested if we have a lot of cards."
Joe Strupp (jstrupp@editorandpublisher.com) is a senior editor at
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I guess If you dont go into teaching you go to work for a newspaper.../s
Only in the mind of a leftist...
A moron liberal approach: buh bye you fools!
If the union is not recognized, I think I might order a subscription or two. Anyone with me?
This has got to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard, no subscriptions, no jobs, union or not.
"...staff in its effort to RESTORE journalistic integrity to the paper..."
RESTORE???
If I'm running ads in this paper. I might rethink we're I spend my dollars.
Let me see. Do I want to hire someone who will start a boycott against my products if I don't give them what they want ?
The old magnavox commercial used to say "smart, very smart"
Soo...the union's message to the public is, "We'd rather be unemployed union stiffs than working non-union folk??"
With that mentality they should get packed right back out on the short bus they rode in on. Motards.
It's your money and your choice, but I'm not interested. This is from an earlier article:
McCaw, a local philanthropist active on environmental and animal rights issues, bought the paper from The New York Times Co. in October 2000.
Search on keyword WendyMcCall.
coool!! i never seen a frog reach out the pot and turn up the heart afore...
I'm reminded somehow of the Buddhist Monks dousing themselves with petrol and setting themselves alight...
Don't you just love it, when liberals get into a deadly snake fight between various groups.
The Duel
(The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat
by Eugene Field
The gingham dog and the calico cat
Side by side on the table sat;
'Twas half-past twelve, and (what do you think!)
Nor one nor t'other had slept a wink!
The old Dutch clock and the Chinese plate
Appeared to know as sure as fate
There was going to be a terrible spat.
(I wasn't there; I simply state
What was told to me by the Chinese plate!)
The gingham dog went " Bow-wow-wow!"
And the calico cat replied "Me-ow!"
The air was littered,an hour or so,
With bits of gingham and calico,
While the old Dutch clock in the chimney place
Up with it hands before its face,
For it always dreaded a family row!
(Now mind: I'm only telling you
What the old Dutch clock declares is true!)
The Chinese plate looked very blue,
And wailed,"Oh dear! What shall we do!"
But the gingham dog and the calico cat
Wallowed this way and tumbled that,
Employing every tooth and claw
In the awfullest way you ever saw-
And oh! how the gingham and calico flew!
(Don't fancy I exaggerate!
I got my news from the Chinese plate!)
Next morning where the two had sat
They found no trace of dog or cat;
And some folks think unto this day
That burglars stole the pair away!
But the truth about the cat and pup
Is this: they ate each other up!
Now what do you really think of that!
(The old Dutch clock, it told me so,
And that is how I came to know.)
8:03pm ET / 7:03pm CT / 5:03pm PT
- time check - bump -
7:03pm CT for me!! Perfect, on the dot!!
as Dan Rather would say,
...if a frog had hip-pockets...
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