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Defending Martha's Honour
Edd Townsend vs. the Axis of Media Weasels
Edd Townsend to defend Martha Stewart"s honor
Tale of the Tape
Edd Townsend Martha's Chris Byron Martha's Offender Eric Burns The New Pretender
"I think it's time for these tabloid terrorists to put up or shut up. If they really believe in what they say about Martha Stewart, they'll put on the gloves and duke it out with Edd, may the best man win. If Edd Townsend wins, we expect these journalists to either report the facts about Martha Stewart or to just shut up. But, if one of these journalists wins, we will publish anything they want to say on SaveMartha.com, apologize for calling them wimps, and I then will personally pull this site off the Internet." Chris Byron and Eric Burns have not yet responded to the challenge. Eric Burns Martha Stewart Fox journalist says reporters ready to attack Martha Stewart with a vengeance Burns says journalists have lied about Martha and covered up the "secret" Martha who is "coarse and foul-mouthed and vituperative"
Fox News reporter Eric Burns responded in his column (A Media-Enhanced Stewart) to a question we recently posed in a Washington Post article: Why don’t the people who dislike Martha Stewart so much just ignore her?" According to Mr. Burns, it's because the journalists who wrote nice things about Martha all these years were lying to us. They were covering up all the bad things they knew about Martha, and they now feel very bad about not telling us the truth. According to Eric Burns, it is now redemption time, and those same journalists who lied to you and me before are now about to go after Martha Stewart with a vengeance. According to Burns: "Martha Stewart is selling refinement, and she is herself coarse and foul-mouthed and vituperative. Her very fame is, in other words, so hypocritically based that it is a joke played not only on Stewart's many fans, but upon the journalists who have for so long fed those fans such a sanitized image of the woman." I have two questions: Question One: Who are these journalists ,Eric? We want their names, which you so conveniently left out of your article. Or do these journalists really only exist in your mind? Isn't the real issue that you "fair and balanced" male journalists only report when women act like "bitches" but not when men act like a mad dog in heat? Isn't the real issue that there is a double-standard? We know one journalist who agrees, and so do you. His name Neil Cavuto. Neil, who also happens to work at Fox , wrote a piece on Martha Stewart called "Sometimes It's Hard to Be a Woman." Here's some of what Neil said: "Some people love to hate Martha. Why? I think because she's an easy target: rich, bitchy, hard-driving and a woman. It's funny, we can tolerate those tenacious qualities in a male, but apparently not when it's a female. Why? So Eric, is Neil Cavuto wrong to say that there is a double standard in the media that penalizes strong female executives? Have you ever written such a bitchy piece about any of these men? Don't answer. The answer to both questions is an emphatic no. Question Two: Eric, If these journalists were lying to us before when they were building Martha up, why should we believe them now when they are bringing Martha down? Why should we believe you? Just a few months ago, Eric Burns published an article lambasting the media and the public for the attention they pay to celebrities and their personalities and private lives. The title of the article: Journalism panders to viewer bad taste. Burns called viewers who watch these celebrity reports a "blight on society," and whacked the media for running these stories. Now he's calling on journalists to reveal what they know about Martha Stewart's personality and private life. But you can't have it both ways Eric. Pick a position and try to stick with it for at least a few months. That may help restore a modicum of credibility. The Tabloid Terrorsts just dont get it |
Edd Townsend, who received the most votes in the 
SaveMartha.com will sponsor the match and provide official boxing gear for the event. John Small, Editor of SaveMartha said he thinks this is a good way to find out if these media pundits really mean what they say and are willing to back it up.
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