Bikini brouhaha: “Hi, I was calling about your article in the Tuesday, July 5 paper. I was just looking through the paper and I love the pictures on the first page, the little parade for the Fourth of July. But then when I get to page A7, I see girls in thong bikinis. I think you could have chosen better pictures to represent the Hollister Independence Rally than these women on these Harleys wearing thongs. Those aren’t pictures I want my teenage daughter to view and look up to. I think it was very poor choosing of the pictures. Thank you.”
• “Red Phone, that was so tacky. What were you guys thinking publishing those photos of the women wearing bikinis for the Fourth of July? Sure maybe one or two small ones, but then the great big photo was one too. Didn’t you have better photos to choose from? I didn’t realize the Dispatch had become the local mechanics wall calendar.”
• “Thanks for that ass shot of the woman on the motorcycle on the inside page of Tuesday’s paper. I’m really glad my daughter was sitting next to me as I flipped through the paper. That was a really poor decision on someone’s part.”
• “As a regular Dispatch reader and subscriber, I can’t tell you how disappointed I was to open the paper and see the page with all the photos of the Hollister motorcycle rally. I am a motorcyclist myself and attended the rally, and to have the photos of the girls in bathing suits, that was a bad choice. As a man, I appreciate a nice-looking woman, but that’s not what the weekend was about. There was so much more going on there than that and you should have published better photos because there were so many beautiful bikes and incredible things going on there.”
• “I am so disappointed in the Gilroy Dispatch with the porn stuff they put in there in the paper. It’s really a shame, especially for a family paper. No way.”
The Red Phone would like to take this opportunity to say that, in retrospect, we blew it. The staff pledges to be more careful in the process of choosing photographs and you can count on more thorough scrutiny in the future. On behalf of the staff, the Red Phone apologizes to all those who were offended by the photos.
Beware of speed zone: “Hey Red Phone, I want to tell you about some traffic problems we have between Church Street and Wren on Mantelli. You’d think there was a racetrack over there and there’s people whizzing by at least 50 mph. If the police would like to make a little extra money for their coffers to pay for the new police station, maybe they could stake out that drag strip over there and collect some money. Thank you.”
Your Red Phone loves to hear about speeders and such. But let it remind callers that it always receives the same response from police agencies. The best thing for people to do when they witness such acts is to contact the police, not the Red Phone. However, it contacted Gilroy Police Department’s Sgt. Kurt Svardal to see if he offered a new response – which he didn’t.
“We will be more than happy to try and take some action in that area and if anybody has speeding complaints they can always call 846-0350 and we will try and do something about it,” he said.
No joy here: “Red Phone, you did it again. Or someone at the paper did it. You have got, under Daniel Garcia’s letter (July 8), it is a headline that says exuberant. The word should be exorbitant, as in extortion. Exuberant is happiness, joy. … it is an exorbitant cost. Could you spell the word right, please, please, please?”
The Dispatch staff strives for accuracy, but being human, sometimes one slips through the cracks. Thanks for bringing it to the Red Phone’s attention.
Have your say: Do you have a comment, complaint or compliment about an issue that affects Gilroy and its residents? Contact the Red Phone at 842-9070 or
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