Bright Defile

Consumer Reports
ATTN: Jamie Darnow (Chief Marketing Officer, Consumer Reports)
101 Truman Avenue
Yonkers, NY 10703

3 August, 2011

There is a concept much discussed in compliance activities in publicly-traded companies, and which is now referred to as the "tone from the top".

This concept is not new:

The U. S. Army for many years has referred to setting the tone from the top as: "setting the standard".

Deming referred to setting the tone from the top as: "Set an example".

Others attach different labels to the idea. The idea the labels describe, however, does not change as the labels change.

The tone from the top is set by the company's top executives, and establishes the standard by which employees of the company judge the company's expectations of their own compliance with internal or external regulation, stated or implied.

13 June, 2011

Jake Volcsko
Circulation Director
The Herald-Sun
2828 Pickett Road
Durham, NC 27705

10 June, 2010

Virginia Thumm
Chief Development Officer
WHRO
5200 Hampton Boulevard
Norfolk, VA 23508-1507

3 February, 2010

Senator Jim Webb
248 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

3 July, 2009

Gary S. Mathews
Superintendent, WJC Public Schools
P. O. Box 8783
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8783

24 April, 2009

David Rehbein, National Commander of the American Legion
700 North Pennsylvania Street
Indianapolis, IN 46206

21 January, 2008

Lisa B. Brewer
Vice President of Marketing
7505 Warwick Boulevard
Newport News, VA 23607

25 January, 2008

Senator John Warner
SR-255
Washington, D.C. 20510-4601

9 March, 2007

Lisa B. Bohnaker
Vice President and Marketing Director
7505 Warwick Boulevard
Newport News, Virginia 23607

6 February, 2007

Rush Limbaugh
c/o The Rush Limbaugh Show
Two Penn Plaza
New York, NY 10121

23 January, 2007

To whom it may concern,

I neither requested nor paid for a “charter subscription” to The Limbaugh Letter, and therefore cannot imagine the failure of reason which resulted in your request that I remit additional funds for your newsletter, which, because it is printed on coated paper, is not even fit to feed my worms. Every issue I received was unceremoniously thrown in the trash, unopened, with as much contempt as I could summon at the time. If I wanted to listen to the ramblings of a village idiot, I'd pay more attention to the President. Please consider this a request to remove my name and address from your mailing list.

Jon Meacham
251 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019

23 January, 2007

Mr. Meacham,

I cannot imagine the conversation, deep in the bowels of Newsweek, which resulted in an action item for a nameless Newsweek employee to compile the list of “professionals” on which my name appeared, and which was the subject of your recent request that I remit the sum of twenty US dollars for a one-year subscription to Newsweek. I remain, however, uninterested in a subscription to Newsweek. Please inform the appropriate party with all due haste to remove my name and address from your now inaccurate list of “professionals.” I grow tired of feeding your shredded envelopes to my fireplace.

American Honda Motor Co., Inc.
ATTN: John G. Petas
1919 Torrance Boulevard
Torrance, CA 90501-2746

18 January, 2007

22 May, 2006

Regarding the 20 February letter: "Stop bashing Clinton." What the author and many other Clinton supporters fail to realize about many Americans' distaste for our former President is that he has never publicly admitted lying to the American people, under oath, about his sexual relationship with Monica Lewinski, or apologized for lying to the American people about his sexual relationship with Monica Lewinski. To this day, Clinton has admitted no wrongdoing - he is not complicit in the crime for which he is guilty. Many of the people reading this have children of their own, and I strongly suspect that not a single one of them expects less of their children than to tell the truth and not lie. I'm perplexed, then, that there seems to be no shortage of people willing to excuse such behavior by the President of the United States, whatever his party affiliation.

EFF
454 Shotwell Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

23 February, 2004

To whom it may concern:

Please find enclosed a check for $13.86, the exact amount the Virginia Attorney General assures me is adequate compensation for the loss inflicted upon me as a citizen of the United States by years of price-fixing by the music publishing industry in America.

Use this money to fund the fight to destroy the RIAA, and any organization that would impose unnecessary restrictions on our basic freedoms to preserve corporate profitability. May they burn.

Mark Ernst
H&R Block, Inc.
4410 Main Street
Kansas City, MO 64111

9 May, 2003

To whom it may concern:

I realize that you were looking for someone to answer these cleverly-worded and politically loaded questions without comment, so that you could quote some alarming figures for the press at some point in the future, and to solicit donations to the Republican National Committee (RNC). Sorry to disabuse you of the notion that I can be reduced to a clever soundbite, a percentage, or a cash machine for a political party so out of touch with reality that it will be years before the American psyche recovers from the sheer ignorance of twenty years' worth of Republican candidates. I've got a few things to say, this is the perfect opportunity, and you paid for the stamp.

March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation
1275 Mamaroneck Avenue
White Plains, NY 10605

23 April, 2002