The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a Thursday handout which they have tossed into driveways, or on lawns or sidewalks.
The contents are just advertising flyers and sections of the AJC which contain advertising. There is no 'news' value to these throw downs.
These throw aways are NOT wanted by me. I do not subscribe to the paper, do not read it from the news boxes etc. I have no interest in the AJC and in particular I am not interested in their advertising crap landing on my property.
I have complained to them (on 12/3/09) and it stopped for 2 Thursdays, then today it started up again today, one in my driveway, one at the curb in front of the house and a further wrapper only which seems to have blown in from elsewhere on the block.
I am a firm supporter of the 1st Amendment and rely on its protection as a citizen journalist with over 90 blogs of my own. I do NOT believe that the 1st Amendment gives the AJC or any other publication any cover for tossing litter on my property and certainly NOT after having been told not to.
On 12/3 I thought I had the problem taken care of, seems like I don't. In addition to owning my little quarter acre I also own an artificial heart valve, disabled parking tags from 2 states and a real poor disposition when it comes to morons who want to toss crap on my driveway and lawn which I have to go out and pick up.
An additional reason for my annoyance is that I have an out of state residence and spend about 1/2rd of my time there. As I have now twice pointed out to the AJC Executive Office, the piling up of such uncollected throw aways is a major tip off to the criminal element that there is no one in residence.
I don't want to come back after being away for 8 weeks to find my house cleaned out because the AJC has been tossing these things on the driveway and made it apparant to the burglars that no one was home.
There are now 4 sites about this problem, soon there will be considerably more:
http://atlantajournallitterproblems.blogspot.com/
http://atlantajournalconstitutionsucks.blogspot.com/
http://www.atlantajournal-constitution.blogspot.com/
http://eveningedge.blogspot.com/
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This is a problem nationwide with other newspapers and you can find this info at:
"How Can I Make The Newspaper Stop When I Don't Subscribe?"
Go to: http://consumerist.com/2010/01/how-can-i-make-the-newspaper-stop-when-i-dont-subscribe.html
