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      <title>Comments On: Why I&apos;m Cancelling &quot;The Commercial Appeal&quot;
    
      by John Branston</title>
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    <author><![CDATA[Chuck Conner]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[You did the right thing John, but just about a decade or so too late. Back during the early '70s when I was a member of the newspaper's so-called management my oldest employee told (I believe it was) then-editor 'Red' Acock (sp?), to his face though they had known each other for years: "I wouldn't work here if we didn't have a union..."
        
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    <pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2007 16:56:45 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[John]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Only a crackhead would trust the circulation numbers  they claim...
        
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          <a href="http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/Profile?oid=1165737">Languru</a>]]>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:03:45 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Jesse Smith]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[It's probably true to say that most of the best newspapers in America now are the "alternatives" such as The Flyer. They are unburdened by the corporations who have ruined most media.
        
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          <a href="http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/Profile?oid=1165706">coolblunorth</a>]]>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:18:43 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Clint]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Sadly, it's not just Memphis. Here in Atlanta, the once great Atlanta Journal & Constitution has decided to forgo actual reporting and fashion itself as some sort of bizarre TMZ gossip site.
        
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          <a href="http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/Profile?oid=1164529">Clint</a>]]>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:26:04 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Barbara Burch]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[i am also a former ca staffer, and the newspaper's decline has been alarming, not to mention the way it treats its employees. this town could really benefit from another daily newspaper--or a new owner for the one that already exists.
        
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    <pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:06:34 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[JB]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Yeah, Branson, whatever you do keep Jackson Baker (and in the style to which he'd prefer to be accustomed!).
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:31:15 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Jesse Smith]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[As a recent transplant to Memphis, I find the CA completely unreadable. It has a hick factor that doesn't reflect the sophistication and progressive mindedness of the people.
        
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          <a href="http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/Profile?oid=1165706">coolblunorth</a>]]>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:42:48 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Billl Smith]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Mr. Branston, I feel your pain, man.  The CA is and has been a total embarassment for a few years, now. I cancelled my subscription over three years ago.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:28:41 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Mark Mitchell]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[If I could somehow only subscribe to the sports section......
        
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          <a href="http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/Profile?oid=1165355">Mark Mitchell</a>]]>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:03:14 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Caroline Love]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[As a fellow former CA staffer, I can only add a mournful "Amen." Peck & Co. have destroyed a decent - and sometimes even good - newspaper, by simply ignoring the real news - the stuff that only a good local newspaper can deliver.
        
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          <a href="http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/Profile?oid=1165313">tntruthteller</a>]]>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:42:22 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Strait Shooter]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Like John Branston, I've always been a bit of a news junkie with ink-stained fingers from reading the local daily newspaper. But nowadays I find that I do it more out of habit than anything else.
        
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          <a href="http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/Profile?oid=1165203">Strait Shooter</a>]]>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:14:28 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Preston Johnson]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I once saw a puff profile in the Appeal section in which the "Special to the CA" byline was actually the subject of the article's mother!
        
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          <a href="http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/Profile?oid=1164892">Resolver</a>]]>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:22:03 -0500</pubDate>
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