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By: US Weekly: Still Facing Backlash « Sooshi Soo

US Weekly: Still Facing Backlash « Sooshi Soo — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:34:31 +0000

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By: The College Politico » Blog Archive » Oprah pulls an “Us Weekly” and pisses off fans by dissing Palin UPDATE: (many) Others jump on the “Us Weekly” boat

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:05:07 +0000

[...] Will Oprah follow in Us Weekly’s footprints and start begging people not to be mad at them? (The begging continues)(More Us Weekly free give aways… guess [...]

By: Us Weekly begs readers to stay « Sarah Palin Blog

Us Weekly begs readers to stay « Sarah Palin Blog — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:52:36 +0000

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By: rsb1

rsb1 — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:52:33 +0000

If US is smart, they are processing every cancellation and doing refunds, etc. as needed (to respect the customer) and then creating a special “trial offer” subset where they send these cancelled customers the mag at no cost for a short while and then ask if they might reconsider and re-subscribe. Of course, it takes organization and business smarts to do this, so I doubt that they would. Then again, if they did something like this, they could “claim” an equal number of “new” subscriptions…

By: Michelle Malkin » What’s on pages 4 & 5 of Us Weekly’s Palin-bashing issue

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:44:35 +0000

[...] recall that on Friday evening, a michellemalkin.com reader e-mailed to inform us that Us Weekly was begging her not to cancel her subscription. The magazine’s customer service department asked those canceling [...]

By: love2rumba

love2rumba — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:36:10 +0000

The subscriber has done all she need to do to cancel. If US Weekly continues to send her the magazine they do so at their own expense.

That is true if her particular portion of her remaining subscription has already expired. If not, it is considered “Unearned Revenue”- a liability to US magazine, and they can only legally count her unused subscription payment as revenue if it sent magazines out to her…otherwise if she is saying “please unsubscribe me”, they are taking her money and still sending her a service she no longer wishes. US from an accounting standpoint would be fools to do this not only to be dishonoring a customer request, but would be also attempting to count as revenue a service delivered that the customer does not want….they are overstating their revenues (while claiming to reduce their liabilities) to those looking at their balance sheet.

By: Blatant Anti-Palin Bias in the Liberal Media: A Collection « BUUUUURRRRNING HOT

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:07:00 +0000

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By: Tel-Chai Nation

Tel-Chai Nation — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:35:21 +0000

A flood of anti-Palin smears from the left…

John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin for VP candidate has led to an avalanche of terrible, but probably unsurprising, smears and other forms of vile reactions, against her. For example, US Weekly published one of the most disgusting attacks on Pali….

By: bookish1

bookish1 — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:54:36 +0000

Check out the latest “OK”,”National Enquirer,” and “People.” Two of them are smearing Palin. The other one has a photo of Barack and wife, and a story on him and “his girls.” This is truly bizarre.

By: Cambronne

Cambronne — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:51:56 +0000

“Is US Magazine breaking the law in refusing to cancel the subscription? ”

They are not breaking a law, but they cannot pretend that they are not on notice of the request for cancellation.
They would be breaking the law if they continued to bill for the subscription.

The subscriber has done all she need to do to cancel. If US Weekly continues to send her the magazine they do so at their own expense.

By: Helene

Helene — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:38:13 +0000

US magazine has postcards inside for subscribing.

I went to the grocery store, picked up a bunch of US magazines, shook them so the subscription postcards fell out, mailed the postcards to the subscriber service with a note that I will never subscribe because of their treatment of Sarah Palin,

The magazine will pay for the postage for the cards and get my message.

Mission accomplished.

Easy to do, no muss no fuss.

By: RachelD

RachelD — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:12:43 +0000

After reading the letter closely it is clear that the headline, “US weekly begs readers to stay” is much too kind to US weekly.

I suggest revising the headline to “US weekly has your money and wants to keep it.”

By: Politicalguano

Politicalguano — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:47:04 +0000

Is US Magazine breaking the law in refusing to cancel the subscription? There is no requirement that anyone write 2 requests to cancel. Sounds like the start of a class action lawsuit – surely some lawyer wants to make some money and obtain justice for those who want to cancel.
US magazine, if sincere, needs to devote an entire issue to Palin, with a new cover photo of Palin, which is absolutely positive, and do a story listing the lies told about her and photographs of the liars with their families and reveal any dirt on those liars. Also they need to do hit pieces on the very shrill Reid, the attacks by NOW and document that NOW only supports Democrats – ladies why aren’t you writing the IRS to complain that NOW is a political organization not deserving tax free status.
Since US mag is not sincere, I hope it has a lot of cancelations and also boycott their advertisers. Ad money goes straight to support of BO.
Ladies also need to complain to the networks about the misogynistic behavior of the mainstream media – sexists who need to be fired.

By: Cosmo

Cosmo — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:40:17 +0000

My wife gets “OK” and their cover was a “two-sided” job. The Palin side had the same cover shot as US with a “Sarah Palin’s Baby Scandal” plus “A Mother’s Painful Choice” as the headline and subheadline. The Barack Obama flipside says “Barack’s Inspiration” plus “Life With My Girls.” I admit I’m not voting for Barack, but the feel of the covers belies some bias.

The bottom lines read:
“How she’s standing by her teenage daughter plus the real truth about baby Trig” compared to “Harry Potter at bedtime, first row at dance recitals, what he is really like as a Dad!”

Reminds me of the Chris Rock bit “I take care of my kids.” Look it up. I think he was describing Obama. “Look at what a great Dad I am. I go to dance recitals. I read to my kids. Now elect me president.”

By that measure, I should be the Holy Roman Emperor by now.

By: Links for 9/6 « The Grand Ol’ Blog

Links for 9/6 « The Grand Ol’ Blog — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:24:05 +0000

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