Monday, July 07, 2003
SINGLE-HANDED ASTRO-TURFING
Same City, Same Letter, Same Writer, Same Day
I’ve got to hand it to Arthur Hirsch of Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Hirsch singlehandedly astro-turfed the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News with the same letter about the same subject on the same day.
Here’s Hirsch in today’s Inquirer:
Support for the Cradle of Liberty Council of the Boy Scouts is about community values. We are in a city which is hard hit by high unemployment, significant underachievement in schools, and poor housing in many neighborhoods. It is surprising that some would encourage financial harm to one of the largest and most successful programs to counteract these conditions (“Scouts’ gay stance clouds use of land,” June 30).
Shouldn’t we encourage the thousands of volunteers, parents, community organizations and churches who support the 90,000 scouts in this area, or do these community leaders think scouting should be diminished and curtailed simply to send a message to national administrators who are far removed from our region?
Do they have children who need the opportunities of scouting as much as the children who will be denied opportunity because of their financial pressure?
It would be welcome if they would find ways to support tolerance without harming so many young people in our own community.
Arthur Hirsch
And here’s Hirsch in today’s Philadelphia Daily News:
Support for the Cradle of Liberty Boy Scouts is about community values. We are in a city which is hard hit by problems of high unemployment, significant underachievement in its schools, and poor housing in many neighborhoods. It is surprising that the Daily News would encourage City Council to financially harm one of the largest and most successful programs to counteract these conditions. Why not use your influence and vast resources to continue the benefits for young people of all socioeconomic levels, rather than use them as innocent victims in a political battle?
Arthur Hirsch
The Inquirer and the Daily News are not only published by the same company, Knight-Ridder Inc., they’re in the same building! I guess the left hand really doesn’t talk to the right hand up on Broad Street.
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