Fuck People Magazine!!!

[julialnyc]

I think the freepers got to them (she was supposed to be on their cover and isn't (Brittney Spears is). The article is disgusting. The title is: One moms war......in the battle against a war that took her son's life,Cindy Sheehan may have become a casualty herself.

The piece is sooooooo bad.


Please write them in disgust (don't even mention the thing about being on the cover...... I don't think they would publish it if you did).

You may think People is a silly magazine, but it has one of the biggest distribution rates out of any publication that exists.

I wish I could find it online (it's too long for me to type out right now........... I'm running late for dinner). Read it if you can and write write write!

I can't stress how bad this is........... I work in Entertainment and People is soooooooo widely read that it is difficult to get into. This is disgusting uninformed freeper reporting (they make it seem like it is her all alone with tons of people against her.

Sorry for my poor writing, I'm running really late, but had to write this.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Keeping this kicked in case someone else has seen it

[Melodybe]

19. It's owned by AOL/TIME/Warner, don't be surprised.

[tsuki]

2. Never read it. eom

[acmejack]

3. Here's the link:

http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1096003,00.html

[julialnyc]

5. that isn't the same one that's in the magazine

The one in the magazine is all about her family thinking she's being opportunist to her husband leaving her.......... horrible horrible

[Pirate Smile]

7. This is from the table of contents but it doesn't have a link - so

people have to buy it.

"Controversy
In her fight to end the war that killed her son, Cindy Sheehan is losing her marriage as her husband, Patrick, files for divorce "

http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1095454,00.html

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. I don't think this is the same article.. not sure though

[julialnyc]

9. I'll type it out tomorrow

I should have been off the computer ages ago but I'm sooooo pissed off.

[Shadowen]

14. Maybe I'm just high.

But that seemed relatively impartial to me. The way it sounded in the first post made it seem as though People had frickin' Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity writing for them.

What, are you expecting a major corporation to turn liberal?

[julialnyc]

15. that's not the same article that's in the magazine

N /T

[Shadowen]

25. Ahhh.

n/t

[Tigress DEM]

20. The one that trashes her via relatives and husband is not avail online

So maybe the "impartial" one, which is still somewhat slanted, is supposed to be the "balance" part.

[Fescue4u]

37. Seem pretty even handed to me

more like an update on the facts of situation, as opposed to the nuances (which would be a much longer ariticle)

[txindy]

4. It's Time Warner, isn't it?

That would explain everything. I've cancelled everything with them. They're WH stenographers.

[blondeatlast]

8. Can you link it? I simply can't spout off without knowing what

I'm spouting off about.

I'm a library assistant, I see that kind of stuff all the time. Often the offending thing hasn't been read by the complainer.

I don't want to be guilty myself.

[blondeatlast]

10. How do you know she was supposed to be on the cover?

They are naturally going to go with a cover that will sell their product, I can't fault them for that at all.

It isn't FAIR, but it's People Magazine, not the NYT.

[julialnyc]

11. they said she would be to people in Crawford

and it's fine if they changed their mind............. but they strongly changed their tune.


It was all over the place that she would be on the cover.... I think they took her off due to complaints, and took a new angle.

I don't have the article, but look at this from the table of contents:
http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1095454,00.html

[blondeatlast]

13. Good enough, thanks. nt

[julialnyc]

12. here's one place

t r u t h o u t | One Mother's Stand
By William Rivers Pitt

Thursday 11 August 2005
12:55 AM

It is close to one in the morning here, and the threat appears to have passed. Anyone who has been on edge over this should understand the tension. These folks are on the edge of things out here, and the cops plus the flat bed tow truck made for ominous feelings.

Good news: Cindy will be on the cover of People Magazine. Time and Vanity Fair will interview her tomorrow. How many millions of readers do those magazines have?

Lots of millions.

To repeat, we are standing down for the time being.

[OhioChick]

16. Disgusting..........

So Brittany Spears is more important to the American public than a Gold Star Mom..... :puke:

[julialnyc]

47. but People want to know what she got for her baby shower

Yuck!

[rzemanfl]

17. I thought this was a post about a magazine for swingers. Anyone

who takes People seriously about anything except hemlines, cleavage and who is dating who is not going to informed about much.

[julialnyc]

18. not true... we may find it too low brow, but it has more readers than most

magazines. Everyone I know (and my friends aren't stupid) read that magazine (so do their mom's and grandma's).

Think of all the mom's that read People.

This f-ing sucks!

[lynne]

27. People is one of those rather safe and mindless magazines -

- that you find in every hospital, doctor, dentist, insurance and about any other office with a waiting room in the nation.

[Frederik]

46. Exactly

Many of those moms would be inclined to sympathize with Sheehan.

[Tigress DEM]

22. Thing is, if they don't have what it takes to do real news...

than they should keep their paparazzi out of it.

[julialnyc]

23. Oh of course they're not a news magazine, but they still get more

readers than most news magazines.

They are supposed to be mixed human interests, but are usually all celebrity.

I'm not arguing that it is a good magazine or interesting material........................... it is just sooooooooo read by millions of people (the Oprah demographic............ who would relate to a mom like Cindy).

[Tigress DEM]

26. Yeah, and if they choose to jump in, they should do a decent job.

They are raking in the money - should be able to hire one or two people on staff with some brains.

Shilling the party line makes even them look stupid - more stupid.

[julialnyc]

21. Oh God... it's showing up in places like newsmax

and this is really in the article!

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/8/18/111304.shtml

[Tigress DEM]

24. It's bad, but if that's all there is to it, I wouldn't be too worried.

Here's my question, though. What kind of man divorces his wife after about 2 weeks of being gone at a protest honoring their son?

I guess Cindy has been doing the whole gold star mom thing for a while too, though. A lot of mother's have huge difficulties with the death of a child though and many marriages don't survive that kind of stress.

[Liberal In Texas]

30. She something awhile back that she and her husband were separated

at the time of the "meeting" with Shrub. They were only allowed so many minutes and she and her husband split it up.

My guess is that he has a GF who is putting pressure on him to get divorced. The guy could have waited until next month to have his lawyers file the papers. Ya just gotta wonder about people sometimes.

[julialnyc]

36. but I can't blame him....... you can't explain the feelings of loosing a

child.


None the less.......people Magazine were vultures! That was sooo nasty.

You can't read what losing a child would do to a marriage (and that is a huge thing Cindy has to deal with)



People was so tacky to go "there"

[spanone]

28. They still print people magazine??? Haven't we evolved beyond that?

[pretzel4gore]

29. they stole the election!

times/warner are as guilty as anyone in the world for the 2k bush coup...and they've supposedly benefitted from it more then anyone....people should complain to stores that sell people mag that it's nazi type propaganda....the repukes hate that! (they like everything nice)

[Cha]

31. I was looking forward to Cindy

being on the cover..I read it on DU.

Was it posted on their site that she was going to be on DU?

I won't even read about britney spearheads in other mags and I like to read about all kinds of People.

The scary, sad, thing is that they were and now they're not.

This needs to be taken care of.

[Cha]

32. Didn't Fucking People

Magazine take note of all the Candle Light Vigils for Cindy, Wednesday Night?

If I had a subscription I would cancel it in protest for not having Cindy on the cover like they said..And for the new ugly tactic they're using.

[Perky]

33. It's people magazine for God's sake what the hell di you expect?

AN expose or the Bush Regime. Go bak to reading the hard news in the Daily News if you expected more out of that rag.

[julialnyc]

39. Sorry, but I expected better from them

I'll admit that I read People sometimes (my mom has had a subscription forever) and they actually do have human interest stories mixed in with the celebrity gossip that is usually on the more liberal side.

I really think the freepers wrote in mass to complain about the fact that they had said she would be on the cover, and I think we should write back in mass to complain about their crappy article.


No this is not The New Yorker, but you also have to think that magazines like that in a way are preaching to the choir (if you read those sorts of papers you probably have an opinion already formed). People has a huge distribution.......... and their number one demographic is mothers (the Oprah demographic). I think this is really bad.

[julialnyc]

41. here'sthe first two paragraphs, I'll type out the other three later

when I have more time:

Things only seem to get worse for Cindy Sheehan. Since august 6 she has been camped out two miles from George Bush’s ranch in Crawford Texas, determined to confront the President over the war in Iraq that claimed the life of her son Casey in April 2004.She has weathered the searing Texas heat, jeers from Bush supporters and even public criticism from her sister-in-law Cherie Quarterolo, who accused her of” promoting her own agenda at the expense of Casey’s good name”. It has taken a toll. Asked on day five of her vigil why she continues her lonely fight, Sheehan bursts into tears and says, “I have nothing else to lose”.
Whether she’s seen as a crusader or an opportunist, Sheehan, 48, has become a familiar face to millions- and a ghostly presence to those in her own life. Propelled by grief and rage, she has drifted far from her non-political life in Vacaville, California, that revolved around church and family. In July 04 she lost her administrative job with Napa County after failing to show up for work because of stress. Three months later she stopped talking to her best friend after learning the woman planned to vote for Bush. Now once sympathetic neighbors have backed away, discomforted by her charges that Bush “killed Casey; he’s killing other American soldiers.” Then during an Aug. 12 appearance on Good Morning America, she said that she and her husband, Patrick, had separated.

[julialnyc]

44. oh

Oh,and the title of the piece war:One Mom's War: In her battle against a war that took her son'slife, Cindy Sheehan may have become a casualty herself

[BrklynLiberal]

34. kick

[Douglas Carpenter]

35. kick and recommended

kick

[julialnyc]

38. kick again

[Buns_of_Fire]

40. I'm not familiar with that magazine title. Sounds pornographic to me.

Or maybe it's a RW magazine, profiling the newest techniques of the boosh* maladministration?

(I know, I know. I'm sorry. :spank: )

[rzemanfl]

48. I had the same idea that it was a magazine full of personal ads

from swingers. But now I am thinking "Fuck People Magazine" is a trade publication for lawyers (I was one for 25 years before I got sick of it, so I have the right to say this).

[cbear70]

42. Their reply

Thank you for writing to PEOPLE Magazine. We appreciate the interest that prompted your response and we welcome this opportunity to address your criticism.



We are sorry that you were disappointed in our article on Cindy Sheehan in the August 29th issue. It was not our intention to criticize or judge Ms. Sheehan and we regret your reaction to the contrary. Our editors believe that her efforts are newsworthy and we believe we provided readers with a fair and balanced report. While we regret that you were unhappy with our coverage, we appreciate your taking the time to share your thoughts with us and we are sorry that you will no longer be a PEOPLE reader.



Sincerely,

E. McIntyre

For the editors

[flvegan]

43. Considering the mag's placement in places like grocery store checkout

lines, having her message on the cover would have been nice. The avg Joe probably wouldn't buy guilt, so the cover got axed for something easier to swallow (for some).

[julialnyc]

45. here's a link to write them

https://subs.timeinc.net/crtn/pe/contactus/index.jhtml