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  • Like Garbo, Americans want to be left alone

    10/15/2003 4:43:30 PM PDT · by buzzyboop · 5 replies · 220+ views
    McPaper (USA Today) ^ | October 15, 2003 | Bruce Horovitz
    Dave Barry is a very funny man. Except when he gets junk phone calls. Then, the syndicated columnist becomes a very angry man. So angry, in fact, that he has twice published the phone number of a powerful telemarketing lobby, the American Teleservices Association, in his weekly humor column. His advice to readers: "Tell them what you think." Did they ever. So many angry calls came in after that the ATA shut down the number. Last Sunday, he gave out their new one. It's no wonder the group was bombarded. Consumers are fed up with the increasingly audacious gang of...