To Nancy Abramson: Executive Director of Radio Networks, Dow Jones and Company

Dear Ms. Abramson:
nancy . abramson @ dowjones . com

I'm still waiting for a reply to my letter of July 6th. I understand you might have missed it, but if you Google your own name you'll find it that way, it's kind of hard to miss.

Since you declined to answer me, maybe one of the editors at Dow Jones read about Melanie Morgan's calls for the hanging of your journalists in Joe Conason's Salon article or followed the link from Poynter and emailed you and asked, "Hey is it true we sponsor the woman who called for Glenn to be hanged?" If you won't answer my serious, well-documented letter, shouldn't they at least get an answer? I could publish it here so people who don't subscribe to the WSJ can read it too.

I know that a bunch of you were out of the office for the 4th but really Ms. Abramson, it's been seven business days. And as John Fund said on the Melanie Morgan show, everyone in New York city knows Morgan's name now, she is the talk of the town!

And speaking of Fund, I didn't address the letter to him. He isn't in charge of your program for radio stations. I believe you are. I also copied the people Morgan said "Hang 'em!" to: Glenn Simpson and Paul Steiger, as well as your CEO, Richard Zannino and the folks at the LA Times and a few others who wrote about this.

Right now there are a bunch of people writing advertisers of KSFO telling them they shouldn't be associated with Ms. Morgan or her co-host who calls for AP reporters to commit mass suicide. I would think they would look to you for your actions. If you don't defend your own reporters why should they? Could it be that they care more for the lives of journalists than you do?

Did you at least demand an apology? Now maybe you have cut some back room deal with Ms. Morgan where everyone joked and laughed about hanging and electrocution and she apologized for calling for Glenn's hanging. Where she said something like, "I retract my comments." (which is interesting since she earlier very vehemently said "I retract NOTHING". Or she said something like, "You know that part where I called you all equally guilty of treasonous behavior, well I didn't mean the Wall Street Journal even though I explicitly said the Wall Street Journal."

You see Ms. Abramson I really need to see something in writing where you explain letting KSFO off the hook for calling for Glenn's hanging. Where you explain to me, and Glenn and the rest of the editors, your support of KSFO. Maybe your communications people have some boilerplate form you can use. Like, "We support radio hosts who call for the hanging of our reporters on commercially supported broadcast radio because our reporters aren't really of much value to Dow Jones and Company. Inciting violence directed toward our editors is no big deal since we really need to reach the listeners of KSFO radio since there are no other ways to reach them. We have no choice but to sponsor them. We are in charge of the program but our hands are tied. Also, bloggers who defend said reporters are meanies who clearly are beneath notice."

I'm looking forward to your reply,
LLAP,
Spocko

UPDATE:
Ms. Abramson: It has been pointed out to me that the tone of this letter is rather snippy. You might actually be working hard to sever the relationship with KSFO and that process takes time.
I wrote this note after listening to yet another sound clip of Ms. Morgan joking about execution of editors. This time with Ann Coulter. It was rather upsetting to me and I was frustrated I hadn't heard back from you. I shouldn't have assumed you haven't responded because you don't care. You may be working very hard on this issue and I appreciate you taking this situation seriously.

Sincerely,
Spocko