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The Power of Collective Outrage
The following essay was included in True's e-mail editions for the week of 19 November 2006.
I had reserved this space tonight for a major rant. What makes one of my rants "major"? I was actually going to call for a boycott and a letter-writing campaign -- I don't recall ever doing that before. I wanted to show how collective outrage can make a difference. But you know what happened? Collective outrage grew on its own, quickly rising to a spontaneous chorus of "NO!" And the perpetrator listened.
Canada: Outpruding the U.S.
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The U.S. has its Janet Jackson scandal; Canada has a scandal over a completely clothed woman with a modest neckline. And naturally, we have the photos to illustrate this earth-shattering story from True's 21 August 2005 issue:
Mike the Headless Chicken
Update! See below.
Sometimes you come across a story that really, really seems too weird to be true. Sure we've all heard about chickens who run around the barnyard after getting their heads chopped off. But for over a year? So in an effort to know, for sure, that the news is The Truth, I went looking for evidence that Mike was real. Here's what I found -- and the story from the 26 March 2000 issue of This is True.
Bias? You be the Judge
Anytime This is True runs stories with (shall we say) controversial subjects, it generates letters. But nothing brings more letters than the division between left- and right-wing politics! Some of the people who read the column on President Clinton's White House Intern 'Fornigate Scandal' thought Randy was unfairly biased. (One, from Arizona, said Randy was a "fascist right-wing conspirator" and a "Christian Coalition prevericator (sic)"! Oh, my! How quickly they forget!)
