Boycott the USA Today Newspaper

USA TODAY NEWSPAPER | September 14, 2009 | self

[ncfool]

Sitting here in my DC hotel room this morning and received the Hotel's USA Today newspaper and took a look through the front page section.

Guess What! The USA Today didn't even have any story on the Washington Tea Party.

Can you imagine that! No story.

The Newspaper media is wondering why their readership is declining its obivious that they are the Obama Media department and they work for the Democratic party. Can you imagine that 1,500,000 people attended a rally in DC to wake up the politicians and they USA Today doesn't cover it.

I guess we have the Axelrod controlled media.

So today I will stop reading the USA Today when traveling at hotels.

Maybe we need to show the USA Today some pictures of the event. I bet there are some Freepers here who can show them that there were at least 50 or 60 of us that showed up in DC.

I used to be a subscriber of the Kansas City Star (Falling Star)newspaper but dropped my 25 year subscription last October 1st, 2008.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

As a matter of fact, most do. But I still find the Today paper in front of my door...
One of their executives mentioned that hotels and motels are their sales target. The company has dozens of printing locations and bundles of Today papers are unloaded from the first arriving airport flights and dropped at contract hotels.
I do not understand why local newspapers tolerate this. If I were the editor of a local paper in, say Chattanooga, I'd make damned sure my paper was in front of every hotel door in town.

[Grampa Dave]

I like your way handling even better than my telling the desk clerk not to deliver USALIES TODAY and to deduct the cost from my bill.

I’ve made it a practice to make a point that I don’t want the USA Today on my bill. The usual response is that it’s free. My retort is that USA Today is $1 on my bill. If they want my reservation, remove it."

[Juan Medén]

I have been boycotting USA Today since before it started printing, I think.

I was an early adapter.

[Savage Beast]

I’ve been boycotting that rag—and all the rest of them—for years.

[Rapscallion]

It makes me angry even to see that piece of crap sitting on the floor.

We used to call that a "blivit".

Two pounds of "journalism" in a 6 ounce paper.

[jch10]

The WSJ had reporter, Mike Phillips, on our bus to DC last Thursday. He interviewed 52 of us on the bus. His almost fair article was in Saturday’s edition with a picture. He quoted a papermill worker, a baby sitter agency owner, and the bus coordinator. He did not use anything from the doctor, lawyer, teachers, or small business owners on board. We wondered if he was attempting to stereotype us as uneducated protestors.

He didn’t pick on on the solidarity of our messages nor how we all felt we were doing our patriotic duty. He admitted he was a liberal and was treated very nicely and was welcomed by all of us.

A good reporter would have have done a much better job.

[stubernx98]

The WSJ did not have any story re the March either.

[GOPJ]

One of the largest protest movements in our History and they don't cover it? Too bad, I still get USA Today - but have not re=uped my subscription - and I won't ever now - but they still drop the paper in my driveway. Guess I'll have to call them and tell them I don't want it even if it's free.

[AdvisorB]

Recently I was in downtown South Bend, Indiana on business and took this picture.

[Nevermore]

Well, I’m sure that they didn’t report anything on the Half-Million Man March, either...right?

[fullchroma]

That’s good to hear. I’ll be making the same request for an adjustment in hotel bills.

I’d bet cash money that local papers can’t compete because USA Today is GIVING them away to hotels willing to litter their hallways with the wasted ink and pulp.

[Babu]

I often get it free when I stay in hotels. Then I read the sports page and check out the financial page since I am an active investor. Other than that, I never pay any attention to it. I certainly never pay for the friggin thing.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Be sure to ask before you place your reservation.

[dragnet2]

People still get their news from a wad of paper thrown on their driveways?

Gezzz

[Protest]

Yes, I’m for boycotting all the liberal media. I’m so tired of being ignored! Hurting them financially is the best way to take them down.

[highway61]

I noticed this also. The only reference I could find was in the caption below a Tea Party photo. The photo was included as part of the hit piece on Joe Wilson because someone was holding up a ‘You Lie’ sign.

I don’t know how big this gathering was, but it was big. I wish there was an overhead shot of the mall that could be used for comparison. At a minimum there were hundreds of thousands, and for any ‘newspaper’ to ignore this is irresponsible and unforgivable.

I was in the habit of picking up the weekend edition of USA Today for the sports and entertainment sections, and the Monday edition for the sports results - especially during the football season.

Never again!

Locally, the Red Star Tribune had Obama front page, and a quarter page NYT article - with the same photo as USA Today - buried in the back of the ‘A’ section. Surprisingly the article was opposite a full page of additional coverage on Obama. I’m sure by now the Strib has probably fired whoever it was that placed the Tea Party article where it would be seen by readers of the Obama story.

Canceling this rag too. I only get the Sunday edition and I had already decided to let the subscription expire, but I can’t handle the explicit bias or the bias by omission any longer. (And for those who wonder why I didn’t cancel long ago, it’s tough to kick a 50-year habit!)

[Palladin]

I don’t even read this rag when it’s free at the local Burger king.