Letters

AD NAUSEAM II: FOX IN THE HENHOUSE

"Blech!" "sick," "disturbing," "nauseating" and "ugh" are a few of the epithets aimed at the Fox News ad on the back cover of our February 17 issue. Readers were "appalled," "confused," "shocked," "hurt," "horrified" and "wanted to weep." They likened it to "finding a nudie ad in Ms." or "finding that the woman you were totally in love with voted for Bush." Subscriptions were canceled. The ad was more despised than the "dime bag" ads, which caused us to reiterate our advertising policy in these pages ["Letters," Feb. 10]. But we follow the advice of Bill Michie of Manhattan, who urges us not to fill the Letters page "with some stupid Fox News flap," because nothing would make Fox happier. So we publish only a small sample. --The Editors

Ojai, Calif.

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