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News bulletin You performed a valuable service in printing Project Censored’s Top 10 stories of 2003-2004 in your September 28 issue [“All the news that’s fit to gag”]. Unfortunately, the public seems unable to absorb and to respond even to the uncensored information that is freely circulating in the press, such as: -Iraq possessing no […]
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Whisky sour UVA Marching Band mom Deborah Buchanan writes an understandably spirited defense of the talents and skills of the peripatetic unit [“The ires of march,” Mailbag, October 12]. But in her diatribe against a critic of the half-time performances, she shrilly denounces Maker’s Mark as “rotgut.” Virtually handcrafted in small batches, Maker’s Mark, with […]
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Stocking Wal-Mart’s issues I applaud the running of Geri Dreiling’s synopsis of Wal-Mart’s current legal woes in your October 12 issue [“Wal-Mart’s everyday low wages”]. However, the unbalanced inclusion of Susan Sorensen’s sidebar, “Cents and sensibility,” detailing how great the deals at Wal-Mart look to an average shopper, makes it appear that, “social justice issues […]
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Terrorism: a poor excuse Your September 28 issue’s lead story “All the news that’s fit to gag,” about media “self-censoring,” is one of the most substantive pieces I have seen in print anywhere the past year. Thanks for kicking it over on Big Media, whose working press foot-soldiers are either asleep at the wheel or […]
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Modern English Info for “Les 8 Gourmands” [“Eat your heart out, September 21]: How the saying came to be on the label of an Aero candy bar at Foods of All Nations seems as illogical as its application to its true source, but “bubble and squeak” is a traditional English dish. The simple-and-humble ingredients hardly […]
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According to Planned Your recent article about challenges to Planned Parenthood’s zoning permit provided an opportunity for anti-choice activists to mislead the public [“Zone of contention,” The Week, October 19]. While they would have us believe that Planned Parenthood’s sole purpose is the provision of abortions, this could not be further from the truth. In […]
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Unusual developments Major error in the Fifth/Avon streets big box story [“Chain reaction,” The Week, September 14]. “Albemarle County Supervisor Lindsay Dorrier Jr….reminded his colleagues of how Panorama Farms developer Jim Murray….” My brother James B. Murray, Jr. sold the Fifth/Avon land to Coran Capshaw. Our father James B. Murray bought Panorama Farms in 1952 […]
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Required reading Thanks for the article “Breaking rank” [August 31]. How about doing a comprehensive article in early to mid-October based on some of the following books: -Worse Than Watergate, which coversthe extreme secrecy of the Bush Administration. -Price of Loyalty, which reveals this administration’s true aims of world domination over both enemies and allies. […]
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Paper trail As a bookseller, restaurateur, publisher and more, Sandy McAdams has no peer. As an historian of local journalism, however, he appears to be a bit out of his depth. In the course of wishing C-VILLE a happy 15th birthday [“Happy Birthday to Us,” September 7], McAdams wrote: “Twenty-five years ago, friends and I […]