This update to a diary posted yesterday by spiralstairs, regarding the distasteful cover on a local Atlanta area rag by the name of The Roswell Beacon.
http://www.dailykos.com/...
In case you mised it, sprialstairs pointed out the stupidity of the editors of the Roswell Beacon for using a picture of Senator Obama with crosshairs superimposed on the image. I understand the accompanying article was supposed to be pretty good (I have not seen the paper).
Well, there was apparently some pretty good response to spiralstairs' request for Kossack's to contact the paper - this from the AJC:
A diarist named "spiralstairs" wrote on Daily Kos, "The article itself is not offensive, but the cover is beyond the pale. As indicated by the article, there are some serious racists in the area, and Obama's candidacy has brought out the worst in a lot of people. The last thing we need is a newspaper to suggest assassination with an incendiary cover such as this."
Readers — Kos receives more than 1.3 million visits a day, according to sitemeter.com — were encouraged to contact the newspaper and its advertisers. By day's end, Holiday Inn announced it would no longer do business with the Beacon, though the paper's publisher, John Fredericks, said editorial decisions would not be influenced by "liberal blogger thuggery."Good, bad or ugly, we tell the truth," he said.</" </p>
http://www.ajc.com/...
So, hat's off to spiralstairs and my fellow kossacks for schooling my (apparently) redneck neighbors!