Comments on: Alt-Weakly* http://www.saysuncle.com/2009/02/25/alt-weakly/ Remember, I do this to entertain me... not you. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:17:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ken http://www.saysuncle.com/2009/02/25/alt-weakly/comment-page-1/#comment-216033 Ken Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:20:09 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=22707#comment-216033 Think through the business angle a little further, ka. Even the free alt-weeklies have advertisers (in fact, they are more dependent on advertisers than paid dailies, albeit not that much more). It would not take much effort to find out, any time one of these fishwrapprers publish a CCW list (or anything else anti-gun), which of their deepest-pocketed advertisers signed on for controversy (paraphrasing David Codrea, the National Gun Rights Examiner at Examiner.com)...and which ones didn't. (Wolfish grin follows.) Think through the business angle a little further, ka. Even the free alt-weeklies have advertisers (in fact, they are more dependent on advertisers than paid dailies, albeit not that much more).

It would not take much effort to find out, any time one of these fishwrapprers publish a CCW list (or anything else anti-gun), which of their deepest-pocketed advertisers signed on for controversy (paraphrasing David Codrea, the National Gun Rights Examiner at Examiner.com)…and which ones didn’t.

(Wolfish grin follows.)

]]> By: ka http://www.saysuncle.com/2009/02/25/alt-weakly/comment-page-1/#comment-215989 ka Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:35:37 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=22707#comment-215989 I guess I don't know what the point is. If they don't publish the list then it might as well be inaccessible and illegal. If they do publish the list then they get the publicity and the legislature makes it inaccessible and illegal. If the state hasn't made the data private, it seems to make pretty good business sense for the paper to publish it. Not publishing it gets them nothing. Or as we would say, "A right not exercised...." I guess I don’t know what the point is. If they don’t publish the list then it might as well be inaccessible and illegal. If they do publish the list then they get the publicity and the legislature makes it inaccessible and illegal. If the state hasn’t made the data private, it seems to make pretty good business sense for the paper to publish it. Not publishing it gets them nothing.

Or as we would say, “A right not exercised….”

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