Sandra Dodd

Part of a longer article which is here http://www.gazettetimes.com/
articles/2006/04/11/news/community/tueloc01.txt




Richard Johnston loves his kids. And about once a year or so he
decides to prove it by embarrassing them in public.

His most recent jibe at their expense appeared in the classified
section of the Gazette-Times on April 1.

Johnston and his wife, Nancy, dug up some 20-year-old photos of their
grown children, Kathy Thompson and Tom Johnston, and pasted them into
a bogus ad headlined �End Liberal Media Bias: Replace the GT Editor &
Publisher with �The Basics.��

The tongue-in-cheek advertisement went on to outline a reform
platform by these �back to basics� journalistic crusaders:

�They promise (a) censorship of editorials that favor gay rights,
unschooling, Minnesota Vikings; (b) eliminating all comics except
�Family Circus� and �BC�; (c) more columns by John Rosemond and Bill
O�Reilly plus return of Mona Charen and James Dobson; (d) fewer anti-
war, pro-gay, feminist-leaning letters to the editor; (e) larger type.�

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