Action Alert--Pro-Father Advice Columnist Needs Our Help
March 17th, 2009 by Glenn Sacks, MA for Fathers & FamiliesShort Version: Just click here. Yes, that's all.
Longer Version: Nationally-syndicated advice columnist Amy Alkon has often gone to bat for fathers in her columns, and has supported many of our protest campaigns, including our Campaign Protesting Father-Bashing Domestic Violence Ads and our Campaign Protesting the Fox Reality Show Bad Dads. In her advice column she often defends men and fathers.
Amy explains:
In a world where domestic violence against men is laughed off -- while Mary Winkler blows her husband away and gets away with it...where there's rampant paternity fraud...where men are bled dry in court proceedings that take away access to their children...where women feel free to become "single mothers by choice" when piles of data show that children need daddies to have a good shot in life...and on and on...I use science and reason -- presented with humor -- to put out a column that is fair to men. In fact, because I'm so outraged by the rampant discrimination I see against men, it's one of my main missions.
On many occasions Amy has gotten in trouble with newspapers or had her column dropped because she told truths that the "woman good/man bad" mainstream media doesn't want to hear. Any effective political and social movement takes care of its friends. Amy doesn't always see things the way we do, but she has been a friend to the fatherhood movement--I urge all of you to support her.
Amy Alkon's column will disappear from the Orange County Register, one of America's Top 25 newspapers, unless readers take action. We want you to do three things:
1) Click on Amy's latest column here.
2) Write to the Orange County Register and tell them you enjoy Amy's column--to do so, click on Life@OCRegister.com.
3) Check out Amy's column every week by clicking here.
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March 17th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
I love her columns and just sent an email to the OCR telling them so.
March 17th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
I enjoy her columns as well and also informed the OCR.
March 17th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
"woman good/man bad"
And that is feminist Holy writ... How dare any of you question that!
March 17th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
This is what I sent:
"To Whom It May Concern:
So, if a writer’s point of view is considered “non-PC” we just drop them? Or is your paper getting too much flack from people who don’t want to hear the truth and you are caving?
Sometimes the truth hurts. Once upon a time in the United States of America people faced reality, they owned up to their mistakes and took the consequences. But now, if someone does something wrong and you call them out on it, they hoop and holler that they are not being treated fairly. What they did wrong to deserve being called out is immaterial.
From what I have read of Amy Alkon she tells it like it is. Which is how it should be! I like her style and think she should stay."
March 17th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
My email to the OCR:
I just wanted to write to tell you how much I enjoy Amy Alkon's columns. In a world gone nuts, she provides a much needed voice of common sense, along with a touch of humor that has brightened my day on several occasions. The loss of her column would make the world a little darker for all of us.
March 18th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
I like Amy's column, and I find her opinion and perspective refreshing. It's rare to read anything with a libertarian, self-responsible perspective.
Unfortunately, my company's net-nanny has branded her web site 'verboten', so I can't read it at work.
I did send an email to the OCR supporting her column. The local paper here doesn't carry it, but I've asked.
March 18th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
OCRegister,
I understand that you are considering dropping Amy Alkon's, Advice Goddess column. I hope you reconsider because her advice and commentary is a well balanced column. Amy Alkon is a joy to read because her straight, no nonsense approach is refreshing. Her demographics suggest that her audience are adults. Adults do not need to be coddled, rather they need concise, no nonsense, poignant commentary. Amy Alkon commands a superb understanding of this need. I must admit that if it were not for Amy Alkon I would not have a reason to visit your periodical. Amy Alkon is the main reason for my visits but after reading her column I do typically browse the rest of your publication.
Please reconsider dropping her column.
Thank you,
Bernard S Misiura Jr
123 Main Street
Town, NY 12345
000.000.0000H
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March 19th, 2009 at 10:11 am
Dear Bernie,
Thank you so, so much - truly grateful for your letter. I'm going to copy in what I've been sending people this morning. All the best,-Amy
Thanks so much for your e-mail. I was writing personal notes to everybody -- I wish I could -- but happily, I'm getting a lot of mail in support, and I need to get writing on next week's column, so I hope you won't mind that I'm sending you the text of an e-mail I just sent to another OC Reader who wrote me.
They'll only keep it online if enough readers go to read it there. It may disappear from the paper altogether. The good news is, if enough readers write and complain (life@ocregister.com), they'll not only keep it online but should bring it back to the print edition when the economy gets a little better. They need to know people are reading me.
I work very hard to put out the truth, be funny, help people think rationally, and put out a viewpoint that's fair to men (since they are the fashionable ones to bash from the past two decades, especially). I can't keep writing my column unless enough papers run it -- my income has been cut in half this year with going under and cutting content.
Please write to life@ocregister.com and also click on the link to me on their site -- book mark it and check in weekly. They're deciding in the next month. Many thanks for your note, too. Please ask others who'd miss me to write and click on the column online. All the best,-Amy
Link to bookmark: http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/sections/life/columns/amyalkon/
March 19th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
OC Register
I am disappointed that the Orange County Register has chosen to discontinue this column. Many professional men like me have enjoyed the column’s straight talk and wit. It is refreshing to read female commentary that doesn’t continually regurgitate the typical misandry so common in today’s mainstream media. I encourage you to reconsider this action, which would tend to dismiss the intellect of a full fifty percent of your available readership.
March 19th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
I sent an email to the OC Register a couple days ago. I then emailed Amy, informing her of this, and she sent me a response thanking me.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
Below is the response I got just today. We all need to make sure we read her column regular so they can track IP's and know that she has the large following they are looking for.
"Jean,
Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess column will be on our Web site only for the
time being. You may read her at ocregister.com/columns/alkon. If we
see that she has a large following online, we will continue to run her on our Web site, and when the economy improves, consider reinstating the column in the newspaper.
We are doing our best to keep as many of the features that readers love as possible during this difficult economic time, but we have had to make some very hard choices.
Thanks for taking the time to let us know your thoughts about the changes.
It helps us to hear from our readers.
Rebecca Allen
Deputy Editor, Features
Orange County Register Communications
625 N. Grand Avenue
Santa Ana, CA 92701
714-796-3654 Fax: 714-796-3681
email: rallen@ocregister.com
Visit us online at www.ocregister.com
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March 20th, 2009 at 6:29 am
The OCR's response to my email:
David,
Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess column will be on our Web site only for the time
being. You may read her at ocregister.com/columns/alkon. If we see
that she has a large following online, we will continue to run her on our
Web site, and when the economy improves, consider reinstating the column in
the newspaper.
Thanks for taking the time to let us know your thoughts about the changes.
It helps us to hear from our readers.
Rebecca Allen
Deputy Editor, Features
March 20th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
I got the same, word-for-word, response yesterday that Dave (#11) got. I tried three times to post it, guess it got lost in the spam filters Glenn was talking about.
We all need to check in with her column regular so that our IP's can be documented and the paper gets the "following" for Amy that they are looking for to keep her.