Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:44:19 -0800
Reply-To: David Marshall <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA>
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From: David Marshall <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA>
Subject: Re: VW bus and beetle on Yahoo's 10 deadlies car list. Any thruth?
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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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