Pro-Bush banner at The New Republic -- what the hell?

Look, I don't agree with everything written in The New Republic's pages. I know they have their biases. But I consider them a good rag, and I pay to read their shit.

So what's this great big sidebar banner I read at the side of my story page blaring, "WILL KERRY SUPPORT SECURITY FOR ISRAEL? WHO KNOWS? NOT EVEN KERRY."

(request for advice beneath the cut)

I am not wizard enough to give you a picture of the sidebar, and the page in question is subscription-only. But the banner leads here:

link to Republican propaganda

Here is my simple question. I am a long-time subscriber to TNR Digital. I wish to write a letter of displeasure to them regarding their choice of advertisers. Whom do I contact, and what do I say?

And would anyone care to join me? Don't lecture me on the situation in Palestine, I damn well think Kerry is the better man to address the problem, and arguing that point with me is useless because I am as stubborn as a goat.

•  Send a letter to the editor

  Why not give them a chance to print your complaint

  by knowthings on Fri Oct 08, 2004 at 09:52:20 PM PDT

•  Weird.

  It's not coming up on my link.  There's the George Soros ad and the Wilderness Society ad.  I'm also a paid subscriber.

  I guess though I disagree with you -- I don't think sites have an obligation to choose advertisers who don't support their candidates.  And TNR's pro-Israel bias is hardly a mystery or that it would be a target for that sort of advertisement.  I expect as much from them.  I often skip the articles that look too much like pro-Sharon or 100% AIPAC-approved progaganda; I can skip the advertisements as well.

  It's still my favourite magazine; just ahead of New Yorker and Washington Monthly.

  by tlaura on Fri Oct 08, 2004 at 09:57:39 PM PDT

  •  Wouldn't write if I didn't care.

    That's all as may be, but a good editorial policy would not have approved that advertisement regardless of bias. Or so I believe and will tell TNR, but I doubt they'll care, so don't sweat it much.

    by Valentine on Fri Oct 08, 2004 at 10:00:21 PM PDT

    •  I'm not sweating it at all

      and you should send them a letter if you're offended.  I sent them a letter once when they ran an article by Victor Davis Hanson on Iraq I thought was beyond the pale.  I'm just saying that I don't personally have problems with magazines' advertising choices being partisan or otherwise objectional to some of us and that TNR would be an obvious place for that group to advertise.

      by tlaura on Fri Oct 08, 2004 at 10:05:55 PM PDT

•  Here

  You can see it here:

  http://dailykos.com/story/2004/10/8/204728/584

  by Molly McRae on Fri Oct 08, 2004 at 09:59:01 PM PDT