Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:53:06 -0800
Reply-To: Poppie Jagersand <poppie.jagersand@YAHOO.CA>
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From: Poppie Jagersand <poppie.jagersand@YAHOO.CA>
Subject: Re: VW bus and beetle on Yahoo's 10 deadlies car list. Any thruth?
In-Reply-To: <F712B66A267347139B3C85C4F56817EF@gp207joel>
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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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