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To: Jim Robinson
Please so not post anything from The Onion.

I never cared much for Onion satires anyway.
Too much potty "humor", irreverent pope bashing, etc. etc.
Very little that's truly creatively funny.
I hope you give them the VDARE treatment instead of allowing excerpts like the LAT/WP.

49 posted on 09/19/2003 1:51:39 PM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: Willie Green; Jim Robinson
I hope you give them the VDARE treatment instead of allowing excerpts like the LAT/WP.

Seconded. Just as the LAT/WP went after us, and only us (there are plenty of liberal sites that report LAT/WP stories every single day right now, in September 2003, and the LAT/WP lawyers have never said a word to them), The Onion is now going after us because we're conservatives and they're liberals.

We don't really have much choice about allowing LAT/WP excerpts, because without them we'd be depriving ourselves of major news sources (albeit biased ones). But The Onion serves no purpose whatsoever. If they will not allow us fair use, we should not grant them free advertising.

175 posted on 09/19/2003 5:20:32 PM PDT by Timesink
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