Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:38:23 -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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dear incensed --
this is where i logged my complaint
http://cgi.askmen.com/emails/email_channels.php
which read
i took a moment to fire off an email comment to the ask men dot calm folks
dear tom
your article is looking poorly researched -- not backed up at all by numbers
.. or even acknowledgment that you have participated or watched any crash
tests ...
by the way the VW Bus has extensive crash test video on youtube ... your
article smacked of coffee table bant-- no actually it reeked of pub talk
after 11 pm -- all speculation with out very much fact --
how many of these vehicles have crashed and what were the injuries compared
to other similar vehicles crashed and their injuries --
you know the standard stuff every crash test dummy knows --- the story
seemed more urban legend than factual based --
but hey it is internet based journalism and i guess the adage holds true --
ya gets what ya pays for--
-- if you are only feeding the information to unknowing 14 year old boys and
girls i guess you can say what you like --
those who own or operate vehicles listed in your top ten deadliest are
likely to have considerable fact based arguments for you to face were you to
find your self sitting across from them --
at the pub where you gather your information --
yours
roger whittaker
yes i realize it is a second posting of same thing on same thread ...
i simply wanted to make sure others have the chance to write to the
incompetent
also i found out that on another of this guys articles he lists the porche
-- yes the same dangerous porche
as a car to desire and own on his list of ten cars to want --
the guy is n uniformed so Poppie it is good that you complained also to
yahoo
i expect a great deal from a company calling them selves after a hill billy
phrase --
i guess gosh darn adn goooolllllllyyy were already taken
yours
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Poppie Jagersand <poppie.jagersand@yahoo.ca
> 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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