While I find the whole supremacy thing as vile as you do, I was glad to
have been informed that there are people such as him in our midst. Rather
than not buy the SPPP, why don't you go over to his house or his studio and
give him a piece of your mind? Maybe that's what the SPPP intended...
If the Press were allowed to show victims of war in a more realistic light
(recall the uproar when "clean" shots of caskets were printed?), then maybe
more of us would be outraged and want to put a stop to the madness. We're
well past the 3,000 "get even" number of Iraqi civilian casualties - how
dumb are we going to look when we've lost 3,000 American troops?! OK, off
on a tangent...
Andrew M. Hine
Corporate Research Materials Laboratory
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St. Paul MN
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10/05/2004 08:50 [StPaul] Pioneer Press features
AM skinheads
Turning the Pioneer Press into a hybrid of USA Today/NY Post /Enquirer was
the prerogative of its owners. But today's feature on the white supremacy
recording enterprise has me stunned.
The St. Paul co-owner of this garbage business is highlighted with TWO
pictures, one large b/w on their Speed Read page and one full-color with
lengthy article on the front-page of their Local News section (where its
editorial section is now located). The avowed racist who seeks to attract
young converts to his warped point of view is described as "A burly,
down-home family man with a wife and three small children."
Is Par Ridder the news genius we have to thank for this? Free speech is all
well and good, but I think St. Paul has a right to say we've been
ill-served by this anything-that-sells mentality. Because I'm still
sputtering, I haven't much to offer as a suggested course of action, but
I'd like to hear from others about what we might do. The MN News Council (
www.mtn.org ) comes to mind, but I'm not sure it has authority in this kind
of case. It might be argued that the PP is giving unfair advantage to a
private business, since it hasn't given this sort of attention to any other
two-bit record label. At the very least, I think an editorial apology is
in order. Please call or write to express your disgust at their marketing
of a neo-Nazi.
Gail O'Hare
St. Paul
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