Thursday, May 7, 2009

Subscriber to Kansas City Star: "Stop robo-calling me!"

From Justin Kendall:

Dear Kansas City Star,


You've called me
six seven times since Monday (once while I was writing this). Every call is the same, an automated voice telling me to hold for a special offer but then you hang up before telling me what the offer is.


Stop calling me.



Sincerely,

Subscriber

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14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mclatchy Watch blog mentioned at Fitz & Jen, “We learned it form the McClatchy Watch blog.” (links to, "Stop robo-calling me!")

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-Newspaper Fan Ariel Investments Exits McClatchy-
Fitz & Jen

Ariel’s comments on Gannett’s debt, it should be noted, were made before the company initiated a note swap to spread out maturities even farther. (It should also be noted that the disclosure that Ariel is out of MNI is not exactly breaking news. [We learned it from the McClatchy Watch blog,] which in turn learned it from an alert reader.)

Anonymous said...

Libs with their keen and highly tuned sense of business. Who knew

Anonymous said...

The suscriber was grossly mistaken.

McClatchy hired community organizers from their sista company, ACORN, who merely sounded like a recorded voice.

The Utter GALL

Anonymous said...

[We learned it from the McClatchy Watch blog,] which in turn learned it from an alert reader.)





That was decent of them. I've noticed several instances where McClatchy Watch gets information that others either don't have or don't want known. Good Job.

Too bad there isn't a way to weed out the company trolls that try to disrupt the conversation.

Anonymous said...

They need the bail money the next time Rhonda Lokeman gets behind the wheel (all three of them).

Anonymous said...

Dear McClatchy Watch,

You've called me six seven times since Monday (once while I was writing this). Every call is the same, an automated voice telling me to hold for a special offer but then you hang up before telling me what the offer is.

Stop calling me.

Sincerely,
Subscriber.
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See...I can play this game too...lets insert whatever company/organization name we want to in the "Dear" line.

Groundless and unverifiable reporting.

Anonymous said...

Groundless and unverifiable reporting.

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Groundless? They do it all the time!

Anonymous said...

The McClatchy Watch blog name is getting around for heads-up reporting. Now more than ever we need to delete useless troll remarks. If someone wants to see what this blog is about, they don’t need to first see the little trolls playing their little silly games.
Easy fix; No personal attacks, no off topic posting except at news option, no full length article posting. As much as I like our news articles, I would rather an excerpt or two, and a link. I don’t always have time to read lengthy articles so I skip the whole thing. I would rather have the gist of the article, and read further if it interests me. Good job everyone!

Anonymous said...

Anon 12:54 Spot On!

Anonymous said...

Speaking of ‘Three tire Lokeman,’ her case is still not recorded at the MO Casenet. That must have been a private court hearing.
It does say she refused the breath test. It will be interesting to see how she gets out of this DUI arrest. Where are those MADD mothers when you need them?

“Charge information is not available for the selected case.”

https://www.courts.mo.gov/casenet/cases/charges.do

Anonymous said...

11:59 AM
Is having a difficult time facing the fact that blogs are the future. Readers will find the sites that interest them. I for one will not read a newspaper site, it is just more of the same-o, same-o, slanted garbage. Anyone trying to tell us that the MSM news is verified is dreaming. I have never seen sloppier news reporting than I see now. Newspapers may come to regret their in-the-tank election coverage. It may be their last big corrupt effort that leads to their demise. Sobeit!

Anonymous said...

This committee is going to be fun to watch:
“Advisory Committee On Diversity For Communications In The Digital Age”.
Sorting out Diversity for freelance writers will be a complicated formula. If it works out like it does now, all it will assure is that mediocrity will be accepted from some, and not from others. Sad truth that. However, leaving mediocrity where it belongs is just a click away. Clink, click, click, finished with the Red Scar already.

John Altevogt said...

11:50 the troll who mentioned that he/she/it could create a similar letter and send it in to McClatchy Watch:

What McClatchy Watch, and many others on here, know but that you're clearly ignorant of is that the subscriber, Justin Kendall, is a reporter with The Pitch, an alternative newspaper here in Kansas City with an acknowledged leftist slant.

I can tell you that even with that slant, I find The Pitch to be a far, far, far more credible source on local issues than The Star.

If you want to read an expose of corruption in Kansas City you read The Pitch. If you want to read a story on the same corrupt individuals in The Star, look in their political endorsements archive (usually written by their leading handmaiden to corruption, Barb Shelly).

So I guess if a liberal journalist from am alternative newspaper doesn't float your boat, nothing will. You once again just showed all and sundry your ignorance and narrow mindedness.

John Altevogt said...

11:50 PS, just in case you were thinking of making an ass of yourself again by trying to poo poo my post (as usual, without any counter evidence) may I suggest you click on the Justin Kendall's name in McClatchy Watch's original post (it's called a link, that's why it's a different color). It will take you to Justin's story.