Vets veer left over war: Paper boycotted (VFP boycotts Boston Globe)

[noamnety]

"The Boston Globe is being outflanked on the left by a veterans group that is waging a boycott campaign against the broadsheet for not running soldier casualty counts from Iraq on its front page.

The so-called Smedley D. Butler Brigade, a Boston chapter of the antiwar Veterans for Peace group, updated its own death-count campaign yesterday by putting up a new banner on a Route 128 overpass bridge in Weston. The simple message: “2,320,” a reference to the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq since the war started three years ago.

But Bruce MacDonald, a member of the veterans group, said he would prefer that the count be on the Globe’s front page - just as the paper used to print casualty rates on its front page every Friday during the Vietnam War.

Last fall, the group started a Web page, cancelmyglobe.com, in which it sells “Cancel My Globe” bumper stickers to those who support its cause. MacDonald said the group has sold about 200 to 300 bumper stickers, some of which can be seen on cars in Cambridge and other bastions of liberalism. "

more: http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=132077


http://cancelmyglobe.com/Default.asp?page=23 has a link so you can send the globe's ombudsman an email and ask to have the casualty reporting on the front page, as they did during the Vietnam War.

[tanyev]

1. How odd that a count of troop casualties is considered leftist.

What a strange world we live in.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Reality is a Commie plot.

Facts are Satan's tools, diabolically crafted to make us look bad.

[bluerum]

2. Canceled my subscription about 3 weeks ago. nt

[AllieB]

4. We did too

We were noticing a trend toward printing more right-wing letters, and my husband and I decided to cancel our subscription. There is a real lack of good reporting at the Globe these days also.

[LiberalPartisan]

5. Very unfortunate

The Globe used to be one of the best city papers, before the NYT bought it.

[Blue_Tires]

6. i noticed that as well...

I used to live in RI and read the Globe for a bit...in a word, WOW....The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is a much more liberal paper comparatively speaking when you look at the readership demographics....

I thought the ProJo was a much better paper, anyways

[noamnety]

7. did you tell them why?

it's always good to let them know - especially when they're making claims that their right wingitude isn't affecting their circulation.