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Article: Coalition For Fair News Coverage Contacts Philadelphia Daily News Advertisers.
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- PR Newswire
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- March 6, 2003
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PHILADELPHIA -- PHILADELPHIA, March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Approximately six months after a group of Philadelphians, consisting of more than 100 African-American churches, community, civic, civil rights and business organizations, launched a city-wide boycott of the Philadelphia Daily News, the group today announced that it has sent letters to a cross-section of the paper's advertisers alerting them that the paper has been unresponsive to community concerns that the Daily News is racially insensitive and ethnically divisive and that its members remain committed to continuing the boycott until "substantial changes" are made at the paper.
The group, the Coalition For ...