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Date:         Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:03:24 -0800
Reply-To:     Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: VW bus and beetle on Yahoo's 10 deadlies car list. Any thruth?
Comments: To: David Marshall <mailinglist@fastforward.ca>
In-Reply-To:  <2294.192.168.0.148.1234748659.squirrel@hasenwerk.homeip.net>
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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. > > > > > > > __________________________________________________________________ > > Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and > bookmark your > > favourite sites. Download it now at > > > http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com. > > >

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