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Old Feb 22, 2004 | 10:33 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by letiole:

Someone wrote on here recently that their paper had a policy against doing stories that could be detrimental to their advertisers. If my paper had instituted that one, it would have been time to walk and I'm pretty certain I would have had a lot of company.

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Don't you remember what happened when the SJ Mercury News did a detrimental story on car dealers and used car dealers a while ago? The car dealers all pulled their ads, and there was never another story about them since.

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