Sunday, October 21, 2007

Bias from the media

The Roanoke Times is no longer accepting advertising from gun shows. While I embrace capitalism in most of it's forms and support businesses having discretion, the reasoning they give has nothing to do w/ either:

"The Roanoke Times has amended their policy after the Virginia 
Tech massacre. It was initiated in the advertising
department ***to be
more in line with our editorial
stance
*** and I think you know what that is," said
Mary Whelchel. "I have nothing
good to tell you. We will no longer accept advertising from The
Roanoke Valley Gun Show."


So the justification they're using is the VT shooting, which had nothing to do w/ gunshows, to discriminate against firearm owners and businesses. So much for any claims of impartiality from the Times.

Roanoke Times Contact Information:

Cancel your subscriptions: (540) 981-3211 or (800) 346-1234

mary.whelchel@roanoke.com (540) 981-3378 Retail Head Advertising
temika.hopson@roanoke.com (540) 981-3329
daniel.mirenda@roanoke.com (540) 981-3398
debbie.meade@roanoke.com Director Retail Sales

karen.trout@roanoke.com Letters to the editor

onlineadvertising@roanoke.com
adinfo@roanoke.com
classifieds@roanoke.com

To cancel online go to www.roanoke.com, click Contact Us, click
Home Delivery, click For any other reasons, fill in form,
Message: cancel subscription & give refund and click Continue.


Via VCDL

3 comments:

Rustmeister said...

Hmmm, if their advertising is in line with their editorial stance, will their "hard news" be far behind?

Kurt '45superman' Hofmann said...

I'll be damned--the Gun Goobers(http://www.gunguys.com/?p=2628) linked to you. I'm jealous--I don't think they have ever considered me worthy of their mudslinging.

For some reason, I couldn't put the link in as a hyperlink.

Thirdpower said...

Cool, thanks for the info. I never check their site. It might generate a few hits.