How to cancel your newspaper - striking a blow against the RW media

[Stinky The Clown]

Our town has a new newspaper. Clever design, nice graphics, no-smear ink, lots of color pictures ..... and a strong right wing bent.

The new Baltimore Examiner is in the process of trying to build a subscriber base. Toward that end, free copies are being left in every driveway in sight.

Today, after adding the latest unread copy to my recycling bin, I decided it was time to act.

"Hello, circulation? I want you to stop delivering your odious newspaper to my house. I consider it nothing more than litter. The reason I feel this way is your editorial slant. I wouldn't even subject dead fish to its being used as wrapping."

"I'm sorry, sir. We'll make sure you no longer receive it. It may take a few days to get it through our system, so oyu may still get another copy or two before it stops."

"That's fine. I have enough space in my recycling bin to handle a few copies more."

[Maat]

1. Good job! (n/t)

[dipsydoodle]

2. Thanking them

for providing you with a liner for your cat litter tray may have produced a faster response.

[unhappycamper]

3. My VFP chapter has a thing for the Boston Globe.

http://cancelmyglobe.com/

I haven't bought a Globe in months......

[terip64]

4. The Ann Arbor News endorsed Bush and they can't give me that paper...

I love telling them whenever they call or I see them in the grocery store trying to give it away. Let's see how they do in '08. Ann Arbor, how ridiculous!

[madinmaryland]

5. I've seen the ad's for that on channel 2.

Haven't read it, but the ad's indicate that it "had fair-and-balanced news unlike the left-wing Baltimore Sun." That was enough to keep me from reading it. Sound like they are a Scaife or Moonie type rag.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. Fair and Balanced must be some sort of code .....

I read their masthead and the ownership/management list in their little rag. It all looks so innocent.

But then look at who their columnists are. Not a lefty among them.

The other day they had this article that was little more (less?) than a blowjob for Ehrlich.

[madinmaryland]

7. Here's a little bit of info on it:

Balitmore is but an hour's drive from Washington, and yet in the ways that matter it is light years away--gritty, blue-collar, reviving for sure but still beaten up from a few rough decades. It wasn't that many years ago that a glow on the harbor was likely a warehouse on fire.

And that's what makes Baltimore special for Philip Anschutz. In being so unlike Washington, Baltimore is so much like so many other cities one could name: Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Hartford, Philadelphia, St. Louis. They all wear the same scars.

On Wednesday, after months of anticipation, Philip Anschutz, the reclusive Denver oil and real estate tycoon, is launching the Baltimore Examiner, the third free daily in his chain, coming after San Francisco and Washington. And if Anschutz can make it in Baltimore, analyists believe he can make it anywhere, and woe to the established papers he challenges.

The Examiner model is unique: Free distribution, and home delivery to the affluent neigherhoods advertisers most want to reach; ad rates that are a fraction of those charged by the market's established daily; a tabloid format offering a quick read to people who are light or non-readers of the daily paper; and intense, lively coverage of neighborhoods.

..snip

http://www.medialifemagazine.com/artman/publish/article_3876.asp

[Stinky The Clown]

8. More .... he seems a real sweetheart.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Anschutz

"In its September 2, 2002 issue, Fortune named him the nation's "greediest executive.""