Wake-up Call

The Post charged us more for its pride and joy, although not by a tremendous amount: The best my wife could do was $22.98 a year to get newspapers six days a week, with Tuesdays the forced omission. The News, meanwhile, has been an even bigger bargain than we thought: We're not supposed to receive the Saturday edition, but it's shown up most weeks anyhow. So take my advice, longtime subscribers: Call the News today and demand more savings than you've been getting. You'll be glad you did -- because the powers-that-be obviously care a helluva lot more about the numbers in their circulation reports than the ones from their corporate bank account.

J. Hadley Hooper

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One more thing: Last week in this space, Denver Post editor Glenn Guzzo said that while he was reluctant to speak for columnist Diane Carman, whose October 28 line about Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell ("A pimp's a pimp, after all, even if he looks good in a headdress") prompted the Post to run a full-page advertisement/apology, he added, "She's led me to believe that she was pleased with the way the paper was reacting." Doubt it: Shortly after those words appeared in print, Carman sent an internal memo to her fellow Post employees pointing out that, contrary to Guzzo's statement, she wasn't pleased by the apology at all. Stop the presses.

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