You are correct about the error in my copy of the ad/ sorry for the inconvenience/ my mistake.  The ad corrected with justtalking3.info as sent will be fine.



Apart from that however is my demand:   that the censorship which occurred during the last $700 dollar ad/ was not a mistake.  It was a clear decision to bury the ad by placing inside someone else’s ad.  It was done with the clear intent to sabotage my own efforts to buy the same service as anyone else would expect.  That did not occur, and in fact placing the ad within another ad for the express and real purpose of censorship is against the law.  It is a first amendment violation/ and I will not tolerate it again under any circumstance or excuse.  You shall not do so/ or you shall open the door to legal consequences; and should you think that impossible; do look at my sites again.  Lawyers can be found, for first amendment censorship cases/ national news can occur as a consequence with this paper expressly in the middle of that conversation and lawsuit.  That is not a threat, unless you choose to bury the ad again.  That is not a threat unless you do not put my ad in the environment or national news as was bought and paid for.  That is not a threat, it is a demand for the same treatment as any other customer would expect.  And if you refuse to put it in the environment or national sections/ then you will return the money:   with an explicit reason why it cannot go in environmental or national news as any other customer would expect/ or I will seek to sue you for censorship, and denial of first amendment rights.  I will not accept anything less.  If you place my ad ANYWHERE else/ I will charge you with theft, as well, because I did not agree to purchase that.  I have purchased a specific ad within one or the other sections of your newspaper and you will deliver that to me, or legal consequences are very likely to ensue.  If you wish to establish WHY this particular ad cannot go in these sections/ you may do so: but do understand that this is a constitutional law case in the supreme court: and censoring it is unlikely to be an easy charge to support.  I DO NOT tell you where to put it in either section/ I tell you to put it in one section or the other;   OR return my money, and attach a very specific reason why you chose to deny this method of “paid for/ free speech”.   BE AWARE, your answer will or could be used in court.  BE AWARE your failure to answer with an adequate reason why this ad could not be placed where it was bought: will or could be used in court.  Not a game/ you stole my other ad by choosing to make it a deliberate part of another ad/ which is fraud.  The upper half of that page was entirely text/ and that means YOU COULD HAVE put my ad anywhere on the page.  INSTEAD you chose to commit fraud.  You sold me a personal ad/ and failed to deliver it.  Because you deliberately incorporated it into another large ad for the express purpose of burying that ad from view.  The common eye would have called it one in the same with the large ad/ and did.  As you well know and clearly expected would happen.  When you take my money, but fail to deliver the contract, which is my own personal ad/ NOT the subterfuge of combining into an alternative ad: because that is not the agreement made.  Nor would it have been the agreement ANY OTHER CUSTOMER would have made in my stead.  You stole the money/ you censored the words/ and you denied my right of free speech.  A right I paid you for a specific service to reproduce; as any other customer would have.  You chose to steal it instead.  The price for that is today:   YOU SHALL NOT DO THAT AGAIN/ without legal consequence.  There will be legal trouble. 
Treat me as any other customer that demands fair and equitable treatment.  Establish my ad properly in the sections that are environment or national:   and I will forget the fraud/ theft/ intentional denial of first amendment rights/ and failure to uphold your contractual duties.  It’s a choice.

James Frank Osterbur
7/ 21/ 11

this is a letter directed at upper management/ owner;   whosoever that is.

 

THEIR REPLY;  


Dear Mr. Osterbur,Your email was forwarded to me by Ms. Clayborn, the representative who hasbeen processing your ad for this Sunday.One of the great experiences I've enjoyed during my nearly forty years ofworking in a newspaper advertising department is that every day, I get toencounter something new. Yesterday, I discussed an ad campaign with ataxidermist. I thought back and realized that this was the firsttaxidermist I had ever worked with. It was a first. Today I read youremail and I'm able to say that you supplied me with today's first everexperience. Your email contained so many threats (as well as insistencethat they weren't threats)that I can honestly say I've never received sucha communication. So that's a first for me; a new experience.I would like to take this opportunity to respond by starting with yourcomments about the ad you placed on May 8. First of all, your ad was not"placed within another ad." Just like every other ad in the paper, it wasfree standing, had its own border and had space between itself andsurrounding ads. Secondly, it happened to fall on the same page with thevery popular columnist, Cal Thomas as well as the well-read Illinois Tallyfeature that shows a voting scorecard for Illinois Senators and the 15thdistrict Congressman. So most anyone would think that this was a greatpage for an ad. Additionally, the May 8 edition of The News-Gazette was 52pages. Your ad appeared on the tenth page meaning that your ad was placedin the first 20% of the paper ahead of 80% of the rest of stories and adsthat appeared that day. So your concerns about the ad being "buried" or an"intent to sabotage" are unfounded. Also I hope you see the irony of yourcomments regarding the first amendment. Of course nobody is a strongerdefender of the first amendment than the newspaper industry. Ourindustry's defense of the first amendment is legendary and I'm sure youknow that.Moving on to the ad scheduled for this Sunday, I would like to give you abit of insight into how ads are positioned in a newspaper. Most peoplewouldn't know that ads are positioned in the newspaper before the storiesare positioned. And you might be interested to know that the technicianswho position the ads on the pages never see the actual ad. I'll bet youdidn't know that! Most people wouldn't know that! All the technicians wholay out the pages see is rectangles with the name of the advertiser on acomputer screen. So there is no way for a technician to position an adbased on the ad's content, because that technician doesn't see thecontent.Finally, you had demanded that your upcoming ad be placed in the firstsection of the Sunday paper and when you were informed that there was a25% upcharge for guaranteed position placement, you refused to pay it. Asa one time courtesy, I authorized the ad to be placed in the first sectionthis Sunday but in the future any ads requiring guarantees of positionplacement will be subject to the 25% upcharge.Good luck in your advertising endeavors.