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Lots of us have bashed the Dallas Morning News for its coverage (or lack of it) of the SMU Mustang athletic programs while still having its name plastered all over campus (scoreboards, programs, sponsorship of events, etc.). But today I got a call that pretty much says it all about the Dallas Morning News and its so-called 'relationship' with SMU.

Phone rings at my house.

Me: "Hello"

Caller: "Hello, my name is Tina and I'm calling on behalf of the Dallas Morning News to see if you'd like to re-subscribe...? We see in our records that you stopped receiving the paper several months ago."

Me: "Yeah, I did."

Caller: "May I ask the reason that you stopped subscribing? We'd like to have you back as a customer of the Dallas Morning News."

Me: "Well, I was very unhappy - in fact VERY unhappy - with your sports coverage of Southern Methodist University. You know, its football, basketball and other athletic programs."

Caller: "Oh, I'm sorry that we weren't covering that school the way you wanted."

Me: "Yeah, me, too..."

Caller: "Well...I could pass word along to the sports department to do a better job of covering that school for you, if you'd like."

Me: "Sure. That would be great."

Caller: "Where is Southern Methodist University?"

Me: *click*

Dumbfounding

You shold post this in the football forum too. Man I'm at a loss for words.

*shakes head*

Maybe she was calling form India!!

This is so pathetic.

LOL!!!

'65, you're a jewel!!!

You know, at first, I thought maybe it was an out-of-state switchboard operator/telemarketer, too, but surely the DMN would make those calls locally, wouldn't it?

They could outsource cold calling like that to some other place. You should have told her where SMU was located then asked for her supervisor. Hanging up on her accomplished nothing.

Should have asked her what city the DMN was in..........

Methinks that Tina was probably calling from Austin.

Terry Webster wrote:Methinks that Tina was probably calling from Austin.

That makes no sense. The fact that she was calling from a DALLAS newspaper is what should alarm you rather than taking pot shots at UT for no reason. But I guess I expect too much out of people.

Eddie P wrote:They could outsource cold calling like that to some other place. You should have told her where SMU was located then asked for her supervisor. Hanging up on her accomplished nothing.

...I'm sick and tired of trying to 'educate' the DMN. It's kind of like trying to teach a pig to sing.

That's almost as funny as the Jesus video the other day.