Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Suburban Journal Management and Advertisers Need to Hear from Us!

From today's Town Talk:

Taking back the church

THE ST. LOUIS Review won't print this because they're neo-fascist. But I'll tell you what, if Catholics are going to survive in St. Louis, we've got to get together and start to fight for the rights of women. We need women ordained. We need priests. We need more power to the lay people. With the Nazi we got now in this diocese, we're not going to see change unless the people who are the church stand up and fight scream and yell to take our church back. Please print this in the Journal. Just like St. Stanislaus, you got to go to the public media to get the word out.
Source: South County Journal, Town Talk for Jan 16

It's unbelievable that this was permitted to be printed in the Suburban Journal and posted on its web site. It is reprehensible that such hatred is allowed. The fact that such words come from an apparently severely troubled individual is no excuse for allowing bigotted name-calling and calls for violent actions to be taken.

The South County Journal and the Corporate office need to issue an apology and see that policies are effected that would no longer allow the Journal to be used to promote such hatred and calls for violent action against the Catholic Church and its Archbishop.

Below, I have posted the addresses, phone number, names and email addresses to those who should be contacted about this grave matter. Let's put them on notice and let them know how faithful Catholics feel about this gross injustice toward Archbishop Burke and the Church, and perhaps, we should let their advtertisers know as well.

South County Journal
4210 Chippewa
St. Louis, MO 63116

Main Phone Number: 314-664-2700
Main Fax Number: 314-664-8533

Staff List
Tom Carter - Advertising manager - 314-664-2700, ext. 158
Monika Kleban - Managing editor - 314-664-2700, ext. 154
Jeff Tobin - Assistant Managing editor - 314-664-2700, ext. 154
Jack Cowan - City editor - 314-664-2700, ext. 126
Jim Merkel - South Side editor - 314-664-2700, ext. 134
Steve Birmingham - South County editor - 314-664-2700, ext. 127
Shawn Clubb - Southwest City editor - 314-664-2700, ext. 137
Julie Eilerman - Editorial assistant - 314-664-2700, ext. 128
Kevin Dennis - Advertising Associate - 314-664-2700, ext. 151
Anita Rezek - Advertising Associate - 314-664-2700, ext. 125
Rob Gainer - Advertising Associate - 314-664-2700, ext. 148
Phillip Grant - Advertising Associate - 314-664-2700, ext. 149
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Suburban Journals Corporate Office
14522 South Outer Forty Rd.
Town and Country, MO 63017

Main Phone Number: 314-821-1110
Main Fax Number: 314-821-0745

Staff List
Bob Williams - General manager - 314-744-5798
Dave Bundy - Editorial director - 314-744-5772
Erik Smelser - Online director - 314-744-5733
Dan Crockwell - Circulation director- 314-664-0216, ext. 184
Mary Ann Wagner - Promotions director - 314-821-1110, ext. 505
Mark Summers - Production director - 314-524-4800, ext. 239
Amy Owens - Advertising director - 314-744-5740
Chase Rankin - Advertising director - 314-744-5782
Andrea Griffith - Classified advertising manager - 314-821-1110, ext. 300
Andrea Hurley - Assistant online editor - 314-744-5763
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Harvard professor Arthur Schlesinger, Sr. observed that prejudice against the Catholic Church was "the deepest bias in the history of the American people." Yale professor Peter Viereck remarked that "Catholic baiting is the anti-Semitism of the liberals." Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan described anti-Catholicism as the last socially-acceptable form of bigotry in the United States.

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