[ale] A little show of force?

[James P. Kinney III]

Um. That rate is a per column inch rate. A full page ad is 127 c.i.

So basic full page rate is $38100. Discounts apply which brings it down
to $20,000-$35,000. Ouch!

On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 22:15, Jonathan Glass wrote:
> http://alt.cimedia.com/ajc/pdf/rates/retail/ajc_retail_ratebook_2003.pdf
> 
> I could contribute a dollar or $20.00.  I'm not sure how to read that rate
> sheet, though it looks to me to be less than $300.00 for a one-time
> full-page ad (black&white, which just happens to work fine for tux).
> 
> Jonathan Glass
> 
> > I'm in!
> >
> > Sorry, was that two words?
> >
> > I'm real in!
> >
> > On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 17:57, Hogg, Russell E wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Hmmm...
> >>
> >> How much does a one page one time add in the AJC cost...
> >> Split across a hundred members of a mailing list..
> >>
> >> Probably still steep..
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ____________________________________________
> >> ctcrreho at opm.gov
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: F. Grant Robertson [mailto:f.g.robertson at alexiongroup.com]
> >> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 1:18 PM
> >> To: ale at ale.org
> >> Subject: Re: [ale] A little show of force?
> >>
> >> Something, anything..  Please dear god in heaven. Anything to wake up
> >> anyone in media. I don't know if a show is the idea, but couldn't we
> >> all
> >> start writing letters to local stations demanding that they at least
> >> present the whole picture when talking about viruses?
> >>
> >> I just watched a 5 minute segment on Fox 5 news about SoBig. In 5
> >> minutes, not _one_ _single_ _solitary_ _mention_ of the fact that only
> >> Microsoft systems are vulnerable, no mention of business who use macs
> >> or
> >> linux being immune.. nothing. They didn't even use the *word*
> >> microsoft
> >> in the report. I really didn't think it was possible to do 5 minutes
> >> on
> >> it without using the word Microsoft, but they managed.
> >>
> >> I am consistently amazed at this. If *anything* else caused such
> >> massive
> >> disruption, the media would stand on it like a soapbox. Crikey, they
> >> even did most of the report from the VA hospital, not a single mention
> >> of the wasted tax dollars in productivity or IT overtime. I'm so fed
> >> up
> >> with this, and I know many of you are too.. what are we going to do
> >> about it?
> >>
> >> Sigh, Linux needs a massive PR machine.
> >> -G
> >>
> >>
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