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We know that Time won't run them, so why don't start keeping a running tally here. Forgive me if I missed this post earlier.
Okay I'll start. Here's my letter and the response from "Gloria" at Time:
Dear Editors: Yesterday I called your customer service department and cancelled my subscription to TIME. It is the direct result of your puff piece on Ann Coulter. Here's the problem: We barely have a media in this country anymore. Clearly, you haven't noticed, but there are precious few journalists and news entities willing to do the hard work to actually REPORT, despite a rich array of targets. We have a government out of control. We have a Congress that refuses to represent the interests of average Americans, and is willing to prostitute itself out to the highest corporate bidder. We have a White House that has turned the notion of open government on its head - burrowing into the private lives of citizens while keeping the mechanisms behind public policy secret. We have a broken election system that is fraught with fraud. We have a couple of wars that are taking the lives of young Americans every single day. I could go on and on -- the environment, the economy, rising gas prices, the morally bankrupt bankruptcy bill. What do I see on the prime real estate that is TIME magazine? The picture of a hatemonger -- a vile, vicious hatemonger that doesn't deserve the time of day, let alone the glowing valentine you gave her. I could get this kind of pretend journalism and hate speech on just about any tv channel, and just about every AM radio channel. I go to magazines like TIME to try and educate myself about what's really going on in the world. If this is what you choose to dish up as journalism, fine. I'm not paying for it, and I don't want this garbage in my home. Peddle your wares to Ann Coulter fans -- if any really exist, beyond the author of this article, and the editors who approved it.
Dear Reader:
Thank you for letting us hear from you. The editors appreciate the interest that prompted you to write, and they have made attentive note of your comments. We hope that you will continue to share your thoughts with us.
Best wishes.
TIME Letters
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