"The protest disrupted the newsroom for two days, jamming the phones,'' the tipster writes today. "After the Kucinich Iowa website announced he wasn't being included in the debate panel, Kucinich supporters posted protests on the comment areas tacked on to any news reports or blogs. Among their suggestions were calling the newsroom (keeping three executive assistants and a news editor busy answering, explaining the criteria, expressing regrets and trying to disengage). They posted every news executive's phone number and many newsroom numbers on the Internet, posted the numbers of the Register's Internet advertisers and suggested people call them to complain and even asked Kucinich supporters to get phone numbers from Register classified ads and call to protest the Register's handling of the debates."Sounds like a community conversation powered by you and the Des Moines Register, eh?
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I was tempted to send a letter to the editor myself. Kucinich deserved to be in the debate. He's running fourth in most legitimate polling. It was a travesty that the Des Moines paper left him out.
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ReplyDeleteOK...OK... the Invisible Man or an Aqua Man (or the sexy female counterparts) would be cool too. Need me to send you what I think would be a good avitar? Please know, if I do, I will be drawing you a damn good one!
You don't like my new avatar? Hmmmm. I was inspired by Des Moines Register Editor Carolyn Washburn's oh-so-rosy cheeks! Worry not; that's just a temporary avatar. But I gotta stick with my theme, which I hope is obvious: news industry characters. Was Spider-Man some kind of reporter?
ReplyDeleteJeepers: Maybe I'm too old. Does everyone recognize the woman in my new avatar?
ReplyDeleteI recognize Lois Lane, but only from reruns :-)
ReplyDeleteCome on, Spiderman, Shrek or a ninja turtle next!
Your avatar is Donna Reed -- or Gisele McKenzie.
ReplyDeleteYour avatar is Noell Neill, TV's first Lois Lane (one of them, anyways). And you are dating yourself if you don't know that Spider-man's alter ego is (was?) a big city newspaper photographer.
ReplyDeleteD'oh! You are so right. Peter Parker is a photographer for The Daily Bugle. That said, I bow to the wisdom of my readers!
ReplyDeleteI don't know about your avatar, but I really appreciate your post about the deluge of protest to the Des Moines Register about excluding candidates from the debate. Mike Gravel was also excluded.
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Nancy
Boo-hoo-hoo for the fracking Register – not! There was no excuse for excluding Kucinich. None.
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