[Ultraman]

What the heck can be done???

This morning as I was starting to surf through the local Sarasota Herald-tribune classified for any firearms bargains, this is what I found! Is this a trend that is happening everywhere???

"NOTICE TO READERS Effective October 1, 2003, the Herald-Tribune will no longer publish advertise- ments for firearms for sale in the Classified section"

http://www.heraldtribune.com/

[Waitone]

Crops up periodically in a variety of places. Usually it is the result of quiet advocacy work by anti-groups. The "journalistic" profession is infested with people who adopt causes then use media to impose that cause on its readership.

Looks to me like you've now got a cause to ferret out.

One thing I'd suggest is contacting your rag and poke around in an attempt to find out what advocacy groups it is bowing to. I'll be willing to bet it is the usual suspects. Do to you rag just exactly what they would do to you.

[Deepdiver]

When the Denver Post/Rocky Mountain News did that (actually only refuses to run adds for those "black assault weapons" that inexplicably take off on their own and start killing people), I cancelled my subscription.

I also tell their telemarketers (who call almost daily), why I won't subscribe to their crappy newspaper.

Doesn't do much good, I am sure, but makes me feel better.

BTW: The Rocky Mtn News sucks anyway!!

-DD

[buzz_knox]

Cancel your subscription and tell them why. A letter to the editor on the same point is also helpful. Emphasize the fact that when they refuse to take ads for a lawful product, they are also taking a political stand, which is something journalists are not supposed to do except in an op-ed. Too bad that taking a stand is what journalism is all about nowadays.

[Ultraman]

Thanks to the words and help from many of you , I just sent this to the Herald-Taliban web master. I hope it helps!...

webmaster@heraldtribune.com

Subject: Classified section "Censorship"

"NOTICE TO READERS Effective October 1, 2003, the Herald-Tribune will no longer publish advertise- ments for firearms for sale in the Classified section"

When you refuse to take ads for a lawful product, you are also taking a political stand, which is something journalists are not supposed to do except in an op-ed.

If you go forward with this policy, I for one will seek out as many of your advertisers as I can and let them know as long as they advertise in such an anti-American paper, I won't shop there. I will also enlist as many fellow citizens as possible to do the same. This policy indorses "Censorship" and opposes "Civil rights".

Bill

[C.R.Sam]

Buzz right.
Looks good Ultraman.

The advertising buck is their teat.

Sam

[Quartus]

It's been serious for a long time now. Glad something woke you up.



What will it take for the rest?

[Ultraman]

It's worse than I thought. I go straight to the classifieds every morning on line where I saw the small line that they would no longer take ads. I just found out that it was on the front page, big and proud as well!

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030924/NEWS/309240569/1060

I hope that everybody that can will help out and give them a piece of your mind!

Thanks for all the encouragement both on line and in all the emails!

Bill

[Standing Wolf]

I for one will seek out as many of your advertisers as I can and let them know as long as they advertise in such an anti-American paper, I won't shop there. I will also enlist as many fellow citizens as possible to do the same. This policy indorses...

Well done—except the word is "endorses."

[jimpeel]

Make a large a-frame sign from a piece of plywood that says:

ATTENTION

FIREARM OWNERS

The Herald-Tribune is an anti-firearm organization.

Cancel your subscription today.

Then take it and mount it in the back of a pickup truck and park it outside of their offices. The sign would have to be well done, not some scrawl using a black marker pen. Pay the meter and leave it there every day for at least a week.

[glocksman]

Good luck, but you probably aren't going to change their minds.
Look at who owns the newspaper:

The Herald-Tribune is owned by The New York Times. The Times' policy on firearms ads call those sold by mail order or at gun shows to be "unacceptable." It also bans ads for "contemporary handguns," but allows ads for rifles sold by retailers, or for antique firearms sold either by retailers or through auctions.

All the news that's printed to fit. :fire: