[North-NV-Greens] Fwd: NY Times fails to publish NION statement

[Paul Etxeberri]

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>We had planned for the new Not In Our Name statement of conscience 
>to run on Friday, January 21, in the New York Times. We had a 
>contract and a confirmation number. This ad was to be our answer to 
>the inauguration, and it was timed to appear in the middle of the 
>inauguration news coverage.
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>The ad did not run. The advertising department were themselves 
>deeply surprised by this, and have not been able to explain what 
>happened. In fact, we were told that to their knowledge this had 
>never happened before.
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>At the same time, the Times lead editorial said that this should be 
>a time of legitimacy and acceptance for the President -- and that 
>this was especially something that the opposition has to come to 
>terms with.
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>It is unacceptable that we do not yet know why something that "has 
>never happened before" happened -- a full page paid ad, accepted and 
>slotted in, did not run. This is especially so when the content of 
>the ad, the need to resist the course that this administration has 
>set, is so important to the people of this country and the world. 
>There needs to be an investigation of what went wrong and why. If it 
>was just an honest mistake, we expect that the Times itself would 
>want to know why in order to prevent it from occurring again.
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>The Times has given us a new ad reservation number and assured us 
>that the ad will now run on this Sunday. However, there is the 
>danger of it being buried in the back of the first section. This 
>would be another way of marginalizing and rendering relatively 
>invisible the voices of conscience and dissent.
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>We urge signers and supporters of the statement to e-mail the Times 
>to demand that the ad run in the Sunday Week in Review section 
>(where there will be summation of the inauguration) or in the first 
>10 pages of the first section. Send to the President and General 
>Manager of the Times at president at nytimes.com and to the advertising 
>department at advertising at nytimes.com.
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>We also urge people to write letters to the Times in response to 
>their editorial 
>(http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/21/opinion/21fri1.html?oref=login) 
>and requesting that your letter run on Monday. It would make a huge 
>difference in making up the loss of the statement not running today, 
>if people would quote or reference the Not In Our Name statement as 
>part of their answer to the Times.
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Paul Etxeberri

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