Letters

Letters

Dear SUN:

Hypocrites! How can a paper that considers itself progressive possibly carry an ad like the one for Newport in its latest issue? That ad, in case you have forgotten, used blatant chauvinism in an attempt to sell a basically useless and harmful product. Over the last several years, you have put much effort into fighting the kind of values that were behind that ad, yet now, through some kamikaze notion, you go out of your way to defeat your own purpose.

The "old" Fifth Estate ran this same ad shortly before its financial collapse, due to desperation on the part of its staff. (The "new" FE has apologized for this.) The SUN, which reeks of advertising (like the News, Free Press), apparently has a good financial base. This paper can't make economic excuses, at least none that are good enough to explain such ads,

Why?

Rod Hunt

Arm Arbor

Dear Rod,

We agree with you completely on the objectionable nature of the ad in question. If we had been able to inspect the ad before press time, we would have rejected it on principle, but we didn't. Newport is being informed of out objections. Sorry.

Dear SUN:

I was a winner in your "Win A Pound of Columbian" contest, 3rd place. I won 1 year sub. to the SUN and a T-shirt. 

I enjoy reading your paper and I'm sure it would make my time go a little easier.

I was busted in Traverse City for selling tour grams of hash oil to a state pig. I got 1 to 4. lt's getting kind of sad when they start putting people away for BS. like that.

I would like it very much if you would put my name and number in the paper.

Keep up the good work. Michael Hardy. No. 141185 Ionia. Mich

Dear SUN:  As a new reader, l'd like to say that the SUN is a truly fine alternative newspaper. However, that is not the real reason I decided to write. In the Sept. 3 issue you commented on Detroit's "Radio Wasteland" where programming responsibility is zero. Well, that irresponsibility has spread into one other area (besides the government)! On the 27th, Steve Glantz Promotions offered Flo and Eddie and the Turtles and did not deliver . Now, $5.50 is not the issue here. lt's the principle of the whole deal where the public is hornswoggled by an irresponsible promoter. Up until 2 days before the show, the commercials on the radio claimed that The Turtles would play when when in fact they didn't. This in itself is not too it's the fact that Steve Glantz never announced that Flo and Eddie would not appear. The management must have known prior to that show and did not have the class to tell the public prior to the show. If that is not shoddy PR, 1 really can't fathom what else it could be. There is no excuse for this ripoff of the public trust, not at all. Many Flo and Eddie fans were irate and were very vocal about their sentiments (I count myself among the very vocal fans!). In demanding an explanation after the show, I was given no satisfaction whatsoever, and l'm very certain others were as equally disappointed as well!

In the past Steve Glantz has proven himself to be a thief of the public trust (remember the overselling at the Palace when he first started up!). It seems that he is up to his o ld tricks again, and the tricks are as refined as ever! His public-be-damned promoting is something to be shunned by all concerned people in the region. Glantz deserves to be drawn and quartered in Kennedy Square downtown and hung by his toenails from the mizzenmast of the first slow boat to Antaractica for his rotten promoting!

Dennis M. Parrott