A knock on the door at 8:15 p.m. on Thursday night October 4, 2006 was interesting and very telling about the News-Sentinel’s NEW attitude. It was dark and certainly would not be a door to door salesman. Because my neighborhood has a sign posted at the entrance that states NO SOLICITING.

So, who is at my door? It is none other than a door to door salesman for the News-Sentinel. The News-Sentinel’s editor Jack McElroy had just won the verdict of Guilty in the Knox County Chancery Court lawsuit against the Knox County Commission.

Then on Friday, I attempted to get a response from Carolyn Gibson, the News-Sentinel / E.W. Scripps Supervisor in charge of door to door sales representatives. She did not respond to multiple phone calls to her phone extension at the Big metal building on the hill. I will continue this coming week to attempt to get her response for her companies representatives ignoring the rules or law of a neighborhood or subdivision.

On first glance, it appears that all the employees of the big metal building on the hill believe that the rules or laws do not apply to them, so they ignore them. Secondly, how desperate has the News-Sentinel come to, that they must resort to door to door strong arm tactics to increase their subscription count. We know they were desperate enough to have bought the tabloid bully editor girls paper. That purchase obviously didn’t work for them.

I have placed my phone numbers on the Do Not Call list, so they can not reach me at home by phone. I own a residence in a neighborhood with NO SOLICITING at the entrance of the subdivision, to avoid the harassment of the door to door salesmen like I had on Thursday night.

So, now the News-Sentinel believes because 12 individual jurors gave them a victory, then they do NOT have to abide by rules or laws of a community or neighborhood.