04/04/08 - Forget About A Free Press - Censorship At The Greenwich Post - Helping Cover Shay's You Know What

Banned by Greenwich Post!!

by: thomashooker

According to Hersam-Acorn publisher Thomas Nash (email address: tbnash@acorn-online.com), I've been banned by Greenwich Post! Here's the sequence of emails leading to my journalistic defenestration. After I submitted the letter to the editor regarding Shays' CO status, which is published here at myleftnutmeg.com, and which I sent in before the deadline for letters to the editor, I received this from assistant editor Sara Poirier: "Dear Mr. Goldrick, I just wanted to give you a heads up in regard to your letter to the editor. After speaking with my publisher, we agreed that we most definitely want to run your letter, but would like to also get response from Chris Shays' camp on the important issues you raise and run the letters in the same issue. Being past deadline for this week's issue, it's only fair that we hold your letter until next week. Thank you. Sara" That really ticked me off. Here's my response to assistant editor Poirier and editor Kristan Zimmer: Dear Sara, That is complete and utter bullshit, and you, your publisher and your paper should be absolutely ashamed of yourselves. This is a letter to the editor; it's not a news article. So there is no reason whatsoever to require it to be held out in order for Shays to submit a reply. He's perfectly able to respond in the next week's issue. Shays has been dodging my questions to him about his status as a conscientious objector for years now, and you have just helped him dodge the question for another week. And you've not only allowed him to dodge the question for a week, but you've held this question about his record out of discussion during this coming weekend when he is appearing at numerous town hall events. So this amounts to a blackout of important information about an elected official so that that elected official can get in and out of town without having to face up to this important question. What a disgrace. And this comes on the heels of Greenwich Post's having published a sleazy letter about Barack Obama, filled with bigotry and lies. You didn't have any problem about publishing that smear without Obama's input. What's different this week?....

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Google Alert - Byram Gets Covered In Graffiti - Where Are The Police? - Maybe They Are To Busy Harrassing A Critic?

My landlord told me that Byram got hit hit real bad by vandals this weekend.

He said his properties got hit, as well as, Johnny Cakes and other businesses.

All of the property owners are working feverishly to remove all of the graffiti.

By landlord hired a power washing service and had to pay an extra $300.00 for a special graffiti remover to get his places clean.

I hope the police catch these vandals, so that he and the other property owners might have a chance of suing these vandals for the damage they caused.

But, unfortunately, the police are more interested in bothering a police critic instead of protecting Byram from graffiti vandals.

I can't wait to see how the police explain to the newspapers and WGCH about how vandals can cover Byram in graffiti all night long and not get caught.