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See we can play the email game too!
What made the "US BANNINATES VEGEMITE!!!11eleventy!!" story so much more distasteful was the follow up call to action stories.
I mean honestly providing an email link to the Whitehouse? Good grief.
What makes this even more amusing is this from the Washington Post (You need to scroll down a bit sorry):
George Bush: 'I tend not to email or -- not only tend not to email, I don't email, because of the different record requests that can happen to a president. I don't want to receive emails because, you know, there's no telling what somebody's email may -- it would show up as, you know, a part of some kind of a story, and I wouldn't be able to say, `Well, I didn't read the email.' `But I sent it to your address, how can you say you didn't?' So, in other words, I'm very cautious about emailing.'
However I'm sure all the editors of the Australian news sources who published the story read their mail so here are the email addresses for you! The addresses can be found lurking at a tiny "Contact Us" text link at the very bottom of the sites.
News.com.au
Hugh Martin
Editor
Email: hugh.martin@news.com.au
Herald Sun newsdesk
Phone: (03) 9292 1226
Fax: (03) 9292 2112
E-mail: hseditor@heraldsun.com.au
Sunday Herald Sun newsdesk
Phone: (03) 9292 2963
Fax: (03) 9292 2080
E-mail: sundayhs@hwt.newsltd.com.au
The Courier-Mail
David Fagan
Editor
Email: fagand@qnp.newsltd.com.au
Why not drop them a note to tell them you don't appreciate reading fairy tales? But hey - let's be polite and articulate about it.
Also you might want to let them know about this amazing new thing we have on the internet called "search engines". Maybe suggest google.com. That seems to work pretty good. After all that's what I used to find out all my facts. I know broadband is expensive in Australia but I'm sure with the ad click money they just made they can let their reporters on it for at least an hour a day to check facts.
Posted by mjd-s on October 25, 2006 1:44 PM