Re: advertising in the forverts

[Ari Davidow <ari...>]

>Hey there, I thought folks might get a kick out of this. After reading the
>article on the new Klezmorim in 6/19 Forward, which featured my band along
>with 3 others, I decided to run some classified ads in the Forward for my
>CD. I called in the ad for week one and faxed the ads to run for weeks 2-4.
>
>The editor refuses to run my ads because they claim the Forward is a
>"family oriented" paper.
>I didn't think there was anything that offensive in my ads, and I told the
>person in classified that if people
>would be offended by the ads, they'd also be offended by the CD, and I
>pulled my ad from the paper completely.

It's sad, and I don't think the ads merited the negative response.
But then, the Forward isn't what it once was, either (as if any of
us are).

ari

Ari Davidow
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