Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:03:24 -0800
Reply-To: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: VW bus and beetle on Yahoo's 10 deadlies car list. Any thruth?
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all excellent arguments for gmail or ones one domain
yours
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 5:44 PM, David Marshall
<mailinglist@fastforward.ca>wrote:
> Yahoo and MSN don't care. If you think that stuff like this is true,
> no doubt you buy the Inquirer at the grocery store checkout as well.
> There's a reason why you won't find stuff like this on the New York Time,
> CBC News etc etc web sites.
>
> Those stories there there for one
> reason only - to make you look to get their click count up so they can
> charge more for advertising.
>
> Today's headlines:
>
> -
> Strange crimes of the week
> - Obama and sex
> - The subway
> pusher
>
> I dunno - I find it all crap! The person who wrote
> todays "Deadliest Cars" is getting a promotion for sure from the
> amount of click's it got and the ads they sold - doesn't matter if it is
> true or not - sensationalism news is what sells. It's what Americans
> seem to love the most!
>
> David Marshall
> VW Adventure Driver
> and BMW Adventure Rider
>
> http://www.hasenwerk.ca
>
> On
> Sun, February 15, 2009 16:53, Poppie Jagersand wrote:
> >
> >
> I tried to find a name and email address for someone responsible
> > for what they put on Yahoo News. However, the feedback button on
> the
> > Yahoo News page led to some kind of help menu. The best I
> could do was
> > to fill in a web form. I sent the text attached
> below.
> >
> > The feedback form is available from a button
> near the bottom on
> > the yahoo webpage (in case anyone else would
> like to send their
> > comments too).
> >
> > If anyone
> finds the name/address to the editor responsible for
> > Yahoo and
> their "News" stories, please post.
> >
> >
> Martin
> >
> > ------------------ Text posted to feedback
> site: ---------------
> > Dear Sirs,
> >
> > I'm
> disappointed with the general low quality of the newsflashes
> > on
> the yahoo.ca page, and in particular with the grossly inaccurate
> >
> article about auto safety appearing on your home page from time to
> > time (e.g. for me when I logged in this morning).
> >
> > Auto safety is a serious concern and readers have the right to
> expect
> > seriously researched articles. Yet the article linked
> from your
> > homepage has no scientific validation, statistics or
> any other form of
> > acceptable evidence of truth. It is just a
> collection of hearsay
> > spruced up by witty sounding, but
> uneducated language.
> >
> > The direct link of the offending
> article is:
> >
> http://ca.autos.yahoo.com/p/1145/deadliest-car-designs
> >
> > Please remove the article and instead publish an excuse,
> preferably
> > along with a well researched article (e.g. listing
> the cars most
> > frequently in deadly crashes according to reliable
> government and
> > insurance company statistics.)
> >
> > On an additional note, reputable news publications list the name
> and
> > contact information for the manager/ head responsible editor
> of the
> > news publication as a whole. I couldn't find such a
> person named on
> > Yahoo News.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Martin Jagersand
> >
> > --- On Sun, 2/15/09, joel
> walker <uncajoel@BELLSOUTH.NET> wrote:
> >> safety, but the
> previous designs weren't "deadly" ... certainly no
> >>
> more than the ford and chevrolet cab-over designs of the same years.
> >
> >
> >
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