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wndycty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 07:53 AM
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SJ-R has not dropped Coulter yet, DUer quoted
They want to hear from readers, Will Reynolds, who I believe is a fellow DUer from Springfield, is quoted in today's editorial (good job will). I'm not happy they have not dropped her, but I understand why they want to hear from readers, not just people responding to the Media Matters campaign.

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ediaMatters missed us, thank goodness, so we have not been deluged with anti-Coulter e-mails from across the country. Quite frankly, we are not all that concerned what people in Boise, Idaho, think about us carrying Ann Coulter's column. However, we are concerned with what our real readers think. And we are beginning to hear from some of them.

"I hope the SJ-R does the right thing by dropping Ann Coulter from your paper. Frankly, I don't think anyone who calls all liberals in general 'godless traitors' should have been given space in any respectable paper to begin with. She cheapens the quality of political debate and poisons the waters of American politics," wrote Will Reynolds, who labeled Coulter in his blog ("Where there's a Will, there's a way) as "The Shame of the SJ-R."
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It's a precarious position. We truly try to have an open and diverse editorial page - the volume of reader letters should attest to that. We are extremely uncomfortable with censorship. We are also interested in what our readers think about keeping Ann Coulter as a columnist.

WE WANT to hear from you - pro and con. Tell us why we should either keep or dump Coulter. You can e-mail letters@sj-r.com or call (217)788-1508. We'll publish some and consider them all.
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http://www.sj-r.com/sections/opinion/stories/109718.asp
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