So, Hey, How’s Everybody’s Inky Boycott Going?
Ours seems to be moving along just fine, thanks! Since we announced yesterday that, until the Philadelphia Inquirer drops John Yoo, we won’t consume OR distribute any Inky content whatsoever, a lot of stuff has happened. For one, the story became the lead item on Google Alerts for “Philadelphia” by early afternoonn (see above), it got linked on Politico, and the whole thing made some waves on Twitter, including this cute little “Why do good things happen to stupid fucking people” Tweet from the hungriest hungriest hippo on the whole gravy train, Michael Klein. Then, NBCPhiladelphia ran this piece (then picked up by MSNBC) — served with the same “shut up you crybaby” corporate-directed P.O.V./spin they gave to anti-casino activists last month. (Truly, we are brothers in arms.) In summary? This thing has legs. Meanwhile, the Inky continues to get clobbered from all sides for This Golden Act of Abject Fuckery, from the NYT (who raise the very good question of why was the Inky so sheepish about Woo’s rollout) to HuffPo to everywhere else.
As for, you know, how does it feel to not look at the Inquirer every day? Well, a lot of you already know. But for us, it’s pretty breezy. We feel great, actually: No rabble-rousing comments sections, no Klein, no banks masquerading as columnists. Gosh, we haven’t felt this un-annoyed in a long, long time! As you’ll see over the coming days, we’re going to have no trouble acting like it doesn’t exist — again, much like so many of you have been doing for years and years, even before the paper decided to go ahead and hire a war criminal just for shits and giggles. What we wanna know is, how many of you would be up for an actual protest outside the Inky building, say, Friday at noon? If we get the sense that enough of you care, we’ll start putting it into motion. What do you think?
May 13th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Plan to continue to buy the Inky Daily but will participate in the boycott on the days Woo’s column is published.
“WooWoo Is PooPoo” will be the sign I carry on Friday.
May 13th, 2009 at 11:05 am
so – does your Inky boycott include not visiting Philly.com? Fact is, its pretty challenging to navigate that site without clicking on SOMETHING that is penned by an Inky reporter…
May 13th, 2009 at 11:06 am
Who the fuck is Woo?
May 13th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Not buying the paper. Actual protest? Um, as long as it stays within my lunch hour, I’m there :P
May 13th, 2009 at 11:09 am
oops…
meant “YooYoo Is PooPoo”
yeah, spelling is sorta of important in this case.
May 13th, 2009 at 11:14 am
addendum:
Not to mention grammar.
May 13th, 2009 at 11:26 am
ha, I sent an email with “Woo” instead of “Yoo” this morning…not firing on all cylinders yet…
May 13th, 2009 at 11:30 am
i stopped reading that and the daily news around the same time i stopped drinking blue hugs and eating candy cigarettes. I think the Bulletin was still around.
May 13th, 2009 at 11:39 am
every time someone calls Yoo a “columnist” instead of “disgraced and about to be disbarred lawyer” it gives me the same shudder i get when people say “harsh interrogation” instead of “torture, sometimes til DEATH” which is what they are ACTUALLY talking about. it says a lot about someone.
May 13th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Not even for the coupons, Inquirer. This was one too far.
May 13th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
“This was one too far.” Heck yeah!
May 13th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
dx: Unfortunately, he probably won’t be disbarred, because he’s a member of the PA bar, and their statute of limitations on misconduct already expired for the memos in question or something stupid. I can’t remember where I read this, I want to say Yglesias or Delong.
May 13th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
So, germ issues aside, is it still OK to still read the Inquirer that gets left in the mens’ room?
May 13th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
As if it wasn’t already bad enough, yeah, philly.com deserves boycotting since I discovered last week that they couldn’t even be bothered to update the website every day- Tuesday still had Monday’s posts. And this from the guy who expected people to pay for online content. Pathetic.
May 13th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
My boycott’s been easy. For local news, I’m looking at kyw1060.com. I wasn’t reading philly.com for national/international news anyway.
(Lots and lots of people make that Woo/Yoo error.)
May 13th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
If you look carefully, you’ll see even philebs did it once here with the Woo rollout.
May 14th, 2009 at 12:28 am
I’d go to a demonstration and bring a friend.
May 14th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Foreign Policy has gotten into the act:
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/05/13/breaking_the_philadelphia_inquirers_new_global_affairs_columnists