Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:17:12 -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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Gmail is worse in a more big brother way...
:-)
David Marshall
VW Adventure Driver and BMW Adventure Rider
http://www.hasenwerk.ca
On Sun, February 15, 2009 18:03,
Roger Whittaker wrote:
>
> 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.
>> >
>> >
>>
>
>>
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>
>
>
> --
> roger w
>
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Proverbs:
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cannot bear up: a
> servant who becomes king ...
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