CHECK THIS!!!

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EDITOR & PUBLISHER
Wisconsin Daily Asks Readers to Send Pro-Bush Letters

By E&P Staff

Published: May 11, 2004 UPDATED 4:04 PM EST

NEW YORK According to polls, President Bush's popularity has been dwindling since the Iraq war heated up again last month, but has it really come to this? A Wisconsin daily newspaper, in a novel twist, has resorted to asking readers to send in pro-Bush letters to the editor to balance out the many critical of the President.

In a notice to its readers, The Post-Crescent of Appleton, Wis. (weekday circulation 54,193), observed that with the presidential race heating up, the editors have found themselves in a "quandary." They feel their Views page takes "the political and social temperature of the Valley." But now the question is: "How can we balance the perspectives and topics of our letters when many of our submissions have been coming only from one side?"

"We've been getting more letters critical of President Bush than those that support him.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/index.jsp

[Lex]

1. Oh, I'm sure they were so worried when the freepers bitched

and moaned about Clinton.

I bet they went out of their way to make sure the letters were balanced.

Not.