Update on censorship of conservative newspaper ("The Rutherford Reader") by Kroger
Previously mentioned on this blog on June 13th.
"A small Tennessee-based newspaper has become the center of a free speech firestorm after it was banned from a grocery store chain and a KFC for allegedly publishing "hate" speech....
Protesters gathered outside at least one Kroger store Saturday with picket signs sporting messages like "1st Amendment Trashed by Kroger and Distributech."
And a manager at the KFC that banned the Reader says the company has received dozens of complaints since the paper was taken off the shelves, including her own.
"I've made my opinion known," Smyrna KFC Manager Sandy Stahr told FoxNews.com. "I just feel it's wrong that out of all the people that enjoyed reading it when they came in to eat by themselves, and because one person complained they're going to take it out."
For Kroger's part, Ead says the supermarket received several complaints, not just Mijares'.
Doughtie says his increased circulation numbers show the Reader's supporters in this dispute far outweigh its critics. "We've had a heck of a lot more new subscribers. We have 14 new distribution points where businesses have called us and said they want our paper in their store," he said. "We've even had to increase our printing."
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Looks like Kroger's censorship did the paper a favor. It would still be nice, however, if Kroger sees a fall-off in their business as conservatives shop elsewhere.
Kroger could learn from Rupert Murdoch: Giving conservatives a voice is good for business. Lots of mainstream media companies are in financial difficulties these days but Murdoch properties (Wall St Journal, NY Post, Fox news) are all doing fine.
10 comments:
It's always the same. Just one complaint (usually from a leftist jew) which results in censorship. Yet they usually ignore dozens of complaints about the censorship. Here's yet another lesson on how doing what leftists do (complaining/protesting) will get results. Chances are these chains will do a complete 180 when they see their bottom line dropping. The best way to beat the left is to use their tactics!
"The best way to beat the left is to use their tactics!"
You don't have the left's intelligence.
No we can't use the left's tactics. Lying and using logical fallacies are not appropriate. Nor is focusing on appearances to the exclusion of substance.
"You don't have the left's [lack of] intelligence."
There, FIFY to make it more accurate.
The left's tactics work. The right's do not. So, who is more intelligent? It is the smart thing to go with what works. All your fucking logic in the world will not change that.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Leftists leaders focus on emotionalism. I think they do that to hide the fact that their ideas don't work in the real world, and are irrational. That's not "what works". History has proven that over and over, and over, ad nauseum.
IMHO, conservatives have failed by focusing too much on the rational part of our minds, and ignoring the emotional side. We need to engage the emotional side far more, without ceasing to also be rational. If we throw out reason and logic, then we abandon everything that makes us human, and reduces us to nothing more than animals making thoughtless decisions in the heat of the moment.
"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience."
—George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1
Anonymous said...
"You don't have the left's intelligence."
I've got news for you comrade. Being a leftist (ie:mindless dupe) is not a sign of intelligence. It is a sign of being a failure, one who is incapable of thinking for your self.
"incapable of thinking for your self."
Spoken like a true dittohead.
there is nothing intelligent about leftists. they love to think they're smart but for most it is a show. Somehow they're missing MLK jr.s way of judging and it doesn't include IQ now does it?
Yeah, 'cause everyone knows Nancy Pelosi is a genius!
She has survived this long.
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