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October 31, 2007 by GayPatriot

I have been happy to support the efforts of Bob Owens at Confederate Yankee to expose the fraudulent stories of Scott Thomas Beauchamp since the first items from his fiction piece, “Shock Troops”, were published by The New Republic.

Since TNR refuses to retract the story and stands by the made-up lies about our troops from Mr. Beauchamp, I am now happy to join Bob in urging that those who advertise at TNR feel the pressure.  That’s what the marketplace of truthful ideas is all about.  Bob sums it up well.

The New Republic doesn’t have an obligation to support the troops, or support the war in Iraq. It does have an obligation to retract stories for which they can provide no support.

Canwest MediaWorks, the Canadian company that owns The New Republic, does not have an obligation to decide the editorial policies of The New Republic, but it does have an obligation to discipline all editors who have refused to act ethically, who have misled readers, and who have attacked the military for defending itself from proven falsehoods and gross exaggerations (email Canwest Global CFO John McGuire at jmaguire@canwest.com, and be polite but firm).

We cannot force The New Republic to behave honorably, but we can make their dishonesty come at a price.

Here is the list of TNR advertisers.  I join Bob in asking anyone affiliated with these organizations to urge their management to pull advertising from The New Republic.

Alfred A. KnopfAllstateAmazon.comAmerican Gas Station
American Petroleum InstituteAstroZeneca (current issue)Auto Alliance 
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (current issue)BP (current issue)Chevron (current issue)CNN
FLAME (current issue)Federal ExpressThe Financial TimesFocus Features
Ford Motor CompanyFreddie MacGMGrove Atlantic
HBOHarvard University PressHistory ChannelHoover Institution (current issue)
MetLifeMicrosoftMortage BankersNuclear Energy Institute
The New SchoolNew York TimesNovartisPalgrave Macmillan (current issue) 
Simon & ShusterJohn Templeton Foundation (current issue)University of Chicago PressUniversity Press of Kansas (current issue)
U.S. TelecomVisa (current issue)The Wall Street JournalWarner Brothers
Warner Brothers Home VideoW.W. NortonWyeth LaboratoriesYale University Press (current issue)

Filed Under: American Self-Hatred, Hatred of the Military, Iraq, Leftist Nutjobs, Liberals, Media Bias, Patriotism, Post 9-11 America, War On Terror, We The People, World War III

Comments

  1. Dave_62 says

    October 31, 2007 at 7:39 pm - October 31, 2007

    This is another example of the corrupt media rearing its ugly head. The dirty little secret is you can’t rely on advertising alone. You have to have people reading your publication or the advertisers will go somewhere else!!!

    It really is a sorry state of affairs when the British press does a better job of upholding journalistic standards that Americans wrote the book on so long ago!

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