Wednesday, November 08, 2006

There Are Good People In Wis.

From the Wausau Daily Herald, Thank you for info...

There are people that do what RIGHT.
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Posted November 7, 2006

Hotel yanks CNN; says network is pro-terrorist
Wausau Daily Herald
ROTHSCHILD — Guests at one local hotel who switch on
the TV in search of the latest news no longer have CNN
as an option.The Stoney Creek Inn, 1100 Imperial Ave.,
in Rothschild has dropped the 24-hour news channels
CNN and CNN Headline News from its basic cable offerings.
Tony Magro, 76, of Barrington, Ill., stayed at the inn
Monday night and said he was told by a receptionist that
the hotel chain’s corporate office had issued a letter calling
for the removal of the channels because CNN aids terrorists.
“I’m not an activist, and I really don’t have any interest,
but that struck me as over the top,” Magro said. “I’m rather
zealous about my rights as an American citizen, particularly
when I’m paying for the service.”Magro, who was driving to
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula for the funeral of a friend when
he had car trouble Monday in the Wausau area, said he had
tried tuning in to CNN to find the latest news on today’s
mid-term elections.The channel was nowhere to be found,
and he received an updated channel listing from the front
desk today. The updated listing includes news channels
MSNBC, CNBC, Fox News, C-SPAN and C-SPAN 2.James
Thompson, owner and chief executive officer of Stoney Creek
Hospitality Corp., made the decision to remove the channels,
according to the inn’s corporate office in Des Moines, Iowa.
Thompson is out of the office today and was not immediately
available for comment.Stoney Creek Hospitality Corp. manages
10 hotels in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin.
The 107-room inn near the Cedar Creek Mall opened in 1997.

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