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Title: Paul Excluded From The Tennessean Voter’s Guide
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ronpaulwarroom.com
URL Source: http://www.ronpaulwarroom.com/?p=4584
Published: Feb 4, 2008
Author: By sligh
Post Date: 2008-02-04 00:53:38 by TwentyTwelve
Keywords: Ron Paul, Tennessean Voter’s Guide
Views: 527
Comments: 17
www.ronpaulwarroom.com/?p=4584 Paul Excluded From The Tennessean Voter’s Guide By sligh | February 3, 2008 From Nashville Ron Paul Meetup Group website: “With time running short before Tuesday’s primary election in Tennessee, the Middle Tennessee area’s most prominent newspaper, The Tennessean (Gannett) , failed to include Presidential Candidate Ron Paul in its voter guide published in the Sunday edition of the newspaper on page 22A. The voter guide gives detailed information about the other three major GOP candidates, but does not feature candidate Ron Paul. The Nashville Ron Paul Meetup Group would like to express its outrage at this apparent blatant discrimination against Ron Paul.” Photos of the Tennessean’s “voter’s guide” layout: I am in this meetup group and hardly a fraction as active as many of the members. They are working around the clock to spread Paul’s message to Tennesseans and this is a real smack in the face to those that have worked so hard for this coming Tuesday, and to the readers are aren’t getting an informed look at the presidential candidates. We are calling and emailing to persuade them that a correction should be made in Monday’s paper. 
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#1. To: TwentyTwelve (#0)
Monday's paper is already a wrap...or whatever they call it.
ping.
Oh, that explains it. Gannett won't even run the pics and the story of the poor soul who was interrogated to death then packed in ice at Abu Ghraib Prison, here in Delaware. When I called the News Journal's editor and asked why they didn't run a story that was big news elsewhere in the nation, he told me that he'd have to clear it with "corporate in VA". That was two years ago. They ran the pic but in a totally unrelated story about the anthrax vaccine and Dover Air Force Base. (The Officers Knew!)
tennessean.com/apps/pbcs....99999/SERVICES05/60103004 The Tennessean is located at 1100 Broadway, Nashville, TN 37203. Our main news room department phone numbers are: · Business news 259-8096 · Local news 259-8095 · Life, Arts & Entertainment and other features sections 259-8050 · Sports 259-8010 · Photo 726-5967 · Davidson A.M. 259-8098 · Rutherford A.M. 278-5157 · Williamson A.M. 771-5400 · Paid obituaries 259-8808 General newsroom email addresses News announcements | local@tennessean.com Davidson County news | cstuart@tennessean.com Rutherford County news | mreeves@gannett.com Williamson County news | wam@tennessean.com Business announcements | people@tennessean.com Midstate Datebook | datebook@tennessean.com Arts & entertainment announcements | living@tennessean.com Sports announcements | tnsports@tennessean.com Letters to the editor | letters@tennessean.com Photos | tnphoto@tennessean.com For online technical issues with Tennessean.com, contact Patrick Rains: prains@tennessean.com Advertisement Additional contact information Letters to the editor are welcome for our print edition. Please include your full name and address, plus a phone number for verification. Send to letters@tennessean.com Newspaper delivery questions and missing papers are handled through our Customer Service number, 1-800-342-8237, or via e-mail at customer@tennessean.com. To reach Classified Advertising, call 1-800-828-4237. For retail advertising, call 615-259-8338. Fax numbers
Ron Paul for President - Join a Ron Paul Meetup group today! The Revolution will not be televised! I am beginning to see the whole Ron Paul campaign as a process
www.ronpaulwarroom.com/?p=4639 The Tennessean Apologizes By John Mascaro | February 4, 2008 I apologize for the omission. The candidates’ position grid we published was provided by one of our wire services. It omitted Dr. Paul. We should have caught the omission but we did not. There’s no excuse on our part — but that’s what happened. We will publish a complete version of the grid tomorrow. From: John Mascaro [mailto:xxxx@xxxx.net] [details ommitted for privacy] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 1:26 PM To: Silverman, Mark Subject: Your Coverage of the Presidential Race Dear Mr. Silverman While your paper’s position to not endorse any primary candidates is to some degree commendable, until such time as a candidate officially backs out from a race, it behooves all media to at least mention all who are still running lest that media organization be suspected of electioneering rather than reporting. Your unfair treatment today of Ron Paul by excluding him altogether from the pictorial coverage of the various candidates still in the race borders on the former and, I believe, clearly disqualifies it from the latter. If this is what The Tennessean calls proper coverage of a news event such as a presidential race I will encourage my friends, web site subscribers and your advertisers to re-consider their support of your paper. Sincerely, John Mascaro Walnut Hill, FL
www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=110815 Call Tenn Paper Night Editor NOW - Demand CORRECTION! Call the Tennessean night editor RIGHT NOW and demand a correction to run in tomorrow's paper. We only have a couple of hours before their deadline. The gentleman's name is Jerry Manly and he is in charge tonight at the Tennessean. He will tell you he doesn't have the authority to run a correction, however please demand that he get on the phone and obtain that authority. Remember to be polite and courteous as our actions represent Ron Paul. 615-259-8000 is the main number (go to the news department) After you have spoken with him ask to be put through to John Gibson (extension 8025) who is the editor in charge of the editorial section. He will not be in his office until Monday but we can leave him voicemail. IF WE DON'T ACT RIGHT NOW millions of Tennesseans may not ever get to read about Ron Paul. This is our last shot.
# TwentyTwelve Says: February 4th, 2008 at 3:32 pm www.ronpaulforums.com/s.....p?t=111061 Nashville Paper Blacks Out RP TWICE in same election cycle Some of you may remember the major Nashville paper, the Tennessean, blacking out Ron Paul’s rally in Nashville in October. The editor, Mark Silverman, claimed “internal communications error” which either means incompetence or willful negligence. See this thread: www.ronpaulforums.com/s.....=newspaper ************************************ www.ronpaulforums.com/s.....=newspaper Old 10-08-2007, 10:41 AM EDIT: Nashville Newspaper DID Cover Largest RP Rally Ever The largest newspaper in Nashville refused to run ANY story follow-up on the awesome Nashville Ron Paul rally. They sent a reporter there with a camera and knew about the event. The event was literally 3 blocks from the paper’s office. The event was on Saturday, and there was nothing in the Sunday or Monday editions mentioning it. THIS IS AN OBVIOUS MEDIA BLACKOUT!!! This paper is owned by Gannett and affiliated with: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.....haler,_Sr. who is close friends with Al Gore (Gore lives in Nashville). Oh - and Friday they put Fred Thompson on the front page. LET THEM KNOW WHAT YOU THINK!!! ****contact info removed - see below****
course we knew this was going to happen. I blame the party leadership. People should leave the party in mass. However I no longer have faith in the people either.
Ditto. The less I see of people; the happier I am.
Ditto. The less I see of people; the happier I am. Most of them are brain-dead.
Planning on buying stock in Vaseline?
Nope...happily married. Everyone ELSE can get lost. :-)
I still like people, but still angry with corporate media types. I suppose I should be angry with fellow citizens for being dopey enough to be mesmerised by CMT's, but it's happened before, too. Live and learn, I've lived to learn, and see no reason others can't do the same. Dakmar = change! Vote for Dakmar if you're an idiot that wants some sort of undefined change. I'm thinking of pattending the Change Blaster, it's a flare gun full of nickles and dimes and special confetti. Prolly best not.
"Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has." - William S Burroughs
That's where I'm at. I went through this on a smaller scale with the Grange, that's why I'm no longer with them. You get tired of fighting the stupidity after a while.
I got tired of competing with it. Remember my cousin, Galant, from the magazine? He kept telling me "Goofus, you need to move away and get a job teaching English", but now he's dead. This isn't the first time being a Hoosier has saved my life, one friend a long time ago invited me out to San Diego telling me I could get a Cruise Ship job. He was crushed inside the #4 cylinder of one of those giant ship diesels a few months after I declined.
"Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has." - William S Burroughs
We are calling and emailing to persuade them that a correction should be made in Monday’s paper.
#2. To: FOH, Original_Intent, FormerLurker (#0)
#3. To: TwentyTwelve (#0)
The Tennessean is owned by the Gannett Corporation....
#4. To: HOUNDDAWG, FOH, ALL (#3)
#5. To: TwentyTwelve, *Ron Paul for President 2008* (#0)
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.-T Jefferson
#6. To: TwentyTwelve, ALL (#0)
I did not start off with any political awareness either
however I watched the whole Impeachment of the criminal slick willy like a hawk, and the months leading up to it
and by the time it was all over, I understood everything
I was no longer naive or idealistic about mass media, or the players in government and congress
I understood corruption inside out
and how endemic it is
I am sure others received their education before me
and those who are not aware, are now given the opportunity to become aware
as they follow the corrupt media and corrupt elections with Ron Paul
and they will see it with their own two eyes, as I did
Love, Palo
#7. To: robin, ALL (#5)
#8. To: robin, FOH, all (#5)
#9. To: HOUNDDAWG (#3)
#10. To: TwentyTwelve (#9)
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles,
and the letters get in the wrong places. -- Winnie the Pooh
#11. To: farmfriend (#10)
However I no longer have faith in the people either.
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#12. To: who knows what evil, farmfriend (#11)
However I no longer have faith in the people either.
#13. To: who knows what evil, TwentyTwelve (#11)
Ditto. The less I see of people; the happier I am.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles,
and the letters get in the wrong places. -- Winnie the Pooh
#14. To: farmfriend (#13)
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#15. To: farmfriend, who knows what evil (#13)
(Edited)
#16. To: Dakmar (#15)
I suppose I should be angry with fellow citizens for being dopey enough to be mesmerised by CMT's,
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles,
and the letters get in the wrong places. -- Winnie the Pooh
#17. To: farmfriend (#16)
(Edited)
You get tired of fighting the stupidity after a while.
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