To: The Dallas Morning News 
Date:  November 10, 2010
Subject: The Dallas Morning News sticks it to the poor
Result: censored

Dear Editor,

I see that the executives of The Dallas Morning News are not rich enough already, so
they have thought of a new way to squeeze poor people.
   
I'm referring to the full-page notice in Sunday's edition which stated that you will no
longer include the "TV Week" magazine with the Sunday paper, and instead will charge
75 cents extra per week for subscribers, and 3 dollars a week extra for non-subscribers
for a new magazine.  So now, anybody who can't afford to subscribe to the paper –
whether due to its recently increased prices, or just because they were too poor to begin
with - will no longer be able to go buy the Sunday newspaper and t.v. guide for 3 dollars.

There are a lot of people on small fixed incomes, and they're old or unhealthy, and their
whole lives revolve around their weekly t.v. programming and the t.v. guide.  Now if they
want to know what's on t.v. for the week, and then they also need the Sunday coupons
to help them with their weekly bills, the new tab will be 6 dollars.  It's gonna hurt.

It's just another case of somebody saying, what's the least I can possibly do to say I did
it, and then how much money can I wring it for? 

One company that I did not see listed in The Dallas Morning News's recent special,
"The Top One Hundred Places to Work in 2010", was The Dallas Morning News itself.
I myself would sure not want to work at a place that's full of lying hypocrites – so that
you have to be a lying hypocrite yourself just to work there.  A place that's full of
everybody winking at one another as they talk about "integrity" and, in the current case,
how much poor people are going to "enjoy" the new features you're going to charge
them for, such as more sudoku games, more sports columns and trivia quizzes, more
horoscopes and web links – when all they want to do is watch t.v.

Of course The Dallas Morning News wouldn't want me working for them, either.  Can
you imagine, somebody going around there saying "let's be honest"?  I wouldn't last two
weeks.

Thank you, John Vehon