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PUBLISHER EMERITUS David Cutler

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CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Dwighl Cunan

AD SALES MANAGER Chuck Casey (chuck@ioc.nel)

CIRCULATION Heather Kelly

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How to sell more newspapers

Thank you for your telephone calls, letters and e-mails supporting my August editorial, "Congratulations to the Environmentalists." I appreciate your feedback. Many of your sentiments agreed that it is increasingly difficult to get the truth told and that it appears that it is the extreme positions that are the ones that get all the publicity in the national media.

Little did I know that one month later this would become extremely clear when a report on CCA by the Florida Physicians Arsenic Workgroup appointed by the Florida Department of Health concluded that "the amount of arsenic that could be absorbed from playground soil and CCA treated wood is not significant compared to natural sources and will not result in detectable arsenic intake." It concluded also "that parents can be assured that children can safely play on recreational equipment made of preserved wood."

Now after all the brouhaha these past few years, one would assume that our wonderful national press and other mainstream media would have jumped on this story. Bah humbug! The story could barely be found in the press. Yet what we see all over the place a few weeks later is a report by the Environmental Working Group conveniently released just after the Florida study, and conducted by 45 volunteers, that of course suggests otherwise. This study apparently outlines no scientific protocols, but still it gets all the press. But, why should we expect otherwise? Even an equal play of both reports would have been acceptable, but the mainstream media has taken the position that it shapes our views of life to meet theirs.

In particular, I take great exception to an article in the September l6 issue of U.S. News & World Reporl titled "Arsenic and Barbecue." This was based entirely on the

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Environmental Working Group study, and was about as flammable a piece of journalism as there can be. There appear to be some factual errors, but even less forgivable there was no corresponding alternative point of view despite the Florida report and others being available. The author was directed to contacts with contradictory information, but chose not to include any other opinion.

Anyone who reads the news knows that our mainstream national media has a liberal bias, and it truly is about shock value and selling product. In an age of communication, the power of the press and TV media in recent years has expanded exponentially to the number of news servers that are now available. So called "experts" can be found to contradict just about any position that one can take, and even the sanest argument can be made to sound crazy. I am sorry to say that gone are the days when one could read hard hitting, but fair and balanced journalism. Sensationalism sells magazines and newspapers.

I believe I have the ability to make up my own mind on every issue, provided I can be supplied with a fair balance of the facts. Unfortunately, there are too many with a brainwashing mentality trying to make my mind up for me. They know they can be successful by appealing to the lowest common denominator, which is where our news and programming have headed in recent years. When you are told that black is white, you tend to believe it if you hear it again and again. This is what our industry faces over and over.

While it could be said that The Merchant Magazine has a bias towards this industry, we have always taken the position that while we will never try to embarrass anyone, our magazines will continue to report fairly and accurately both good and bad the news as it happens. Not how we would like it to be. Others take note.

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