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Current Events => Archives => Politics => Election 2008 => Topic started by: bijou on September 05, 2008, 05:54:55 PM
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Keep it up, folks. Us Weekly is feeling the heat. And now, they are pleading with readers to stick with them.
Reader Susanna sent the following protest e-mail:
During tense political times, it’s always nice to open up US Weekly and lose myself in some mindless gossip and fashion news.
So imagine my DISGUST when I saw this week’s US Weekly cover: a revolting, sensationalist, bottom-feeding, partisan attack on mother and career woman Sarah Palin. You know, I’ve been rolling my eyes at your adoring coverage of Barack Obama, but I’ve put up with it in order to be entertained by your other good stories and features. But now you’ve stopped being entertainment and crossed the line into hateful, smear-based attack journalism. I would’ve thought Palin, a hockey mom, energy industry expert, and the youngest and first woman governor of Alaska, warranted the same kind of softball coverage you saw fit to give to the Obamas, but I forgot: she’s a Republican, not a liberal darling, so she instead she gets screwed. Just looking at the cover of your latest issue, filled with innuendoes and misleading statements, makes me want to THROW UP.
Way to lose a reader, US. I do not want US Weekly in my home, ever again. PLEASE CANCEL my subscription. I never want to see this magazine in my house again.
Here’s the magazine’s response:
From: USWcustserv@cdsfulfillment.com
Subject: Re: CANCEL MY SUBSCRIPTION…PLEASE (KMM23206123I103L0KM)
Date: September 5, 2008 6:43:21 AM PDT
To: xxx
Thank you for contacting US Weekly.
We apologize you are upset over our cover featuring Sarah Palin. Every week our editors select what they feel are the most compelling stories, regardless of the controversy it may create. In all fairness, we ask you please take the time to read the story before deciding to cancel. After reading should you still wish to cancel, please let us know and we will honor your request.
Thank you,
US Weekly
Janie
Case id: 6361254
KMM tracking number: KMM23206123I103L0KM
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/05/us-weekly-begs-readers-to-stay/
Oh dear, poor Jan Wenner. :rotf:
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I wish I was a subscriber to their rag just so I could cancel it.
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I wish I was a subscriber to their rag just so I could cancel it.
wow... protests really do work! :-) i think i posted it in Rants & Raves, but yesterday there was an article about them losing 5000 or more suscribers, which, as we all know in this day and age is a huge loss.
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Protests from mainstream America hurt like a ****ing bitch. It sucks to be them.
Oh my.... I had a smithwick beer for dinner and I fear my inhibitions have been erased. :evillaugh:
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Protests from mainstream America hurt like a ****ing bitch. It sucks to be them.
Oh my.... I had a smithwick beer for dinner and I fear my inhibitions have been erased. :evillaugh:
We could only be so lucky..... :naughty: :-)
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Protests from mainstream America hurt like a ****ing bitch. It sucks to be them.
Oh my.... I had a smithwick beer for dinner and I fear my inhibitions have been erased. :evillaugh:
We could only be so lucky..... :naughty: :-)
Hey you... as you can see I need very little encouragement. Hold me, I might burst. :naughty:
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Protests from mainstream America hurt like a ****ing bitch. It sucks to be them.
Oh my.... I had a smithwick beer for dinner and I fear my inhibitions have been erased. :evillaugh:
We could only be so lucky..... :naughty: :-)
Hey you... as you can see I need very little encouragement. Hold me, I might burst. :naughty:
Where would you like to be held, my dear? :evillaugh:
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Protests from mainstream America hurt like a ****ing bitch. It sucks to be them.
Oh my.... I had a smithwick beer for dinner and I fear my inhibitions have been erased. :evillaugh:
We could only be so lucky..... :naughty: :-)
Hey you... as you can see I need very little encouragement. Hold me, I might burst. :naughty:
Where would you like to be held, my dear? :evillaugh:
Hello sailor... :popcorn: But, seriously.. hasn't this week been great? I love a happy ending.
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Protests from mainstream America hurt like a ****ing bitch. It sucks to be them.
Oh my.... I had a smithwick beer for dinner and I fear my inhibitions have been erased. :evillaugh:
We could only be so lucky..... :naughty: :-)
Hey you... as you can see I need very little encouragement. Hold me, I might burst. :naughty:
Where would you like to be held, my dear? :evillaugh:
Hello sailor... :popcorn: But, seriously.. hasn't this week been great? I love a happy ending.
It most certainly has. It has been great to watch real women take the libs apart limb by limb. :-)
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Probably the most expensive cover in the history of Journalism.
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Protests from mainstream America hurt like a ****ing bitch. It sucks to be them.
Oh my.... I had a smithwick beer for dinner and I fear my inhibitions have been erased. :evillaugh:
How erased? Lounge erased or webcam broadcast in ten minutes erased?
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Protests from mainstream America hurt like a ****ing bitch. It sucks to be them.
Oh my.... I had a smithwick beer for dinner and I fear my inhibitions have been erased. :evillaugh:
How erased? Lounge erased or webcam broadcast in ten minutes erased?
Yesh. :-)
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While I'm searching the Interwebs for video of Schade's webcam show, apparently, the rag's dropped subscriber number doubled to 10,000 or so.