BZ (http://bloviatingzeppelin.net/) coined the term, American Media Maggots. That came to mind this morning reading the lead sentence in a “news” article from the Denver Post.
People won’t be able to flaunt their firearms
within 100 feet of a polling place under a law signed by Gov. Jared Polis on
Wednesday.
My county went 70% for Trump in the last election. Greeley, the
county seat, is blue in part because of the local teacher’s college, aka
University of Northern Colorado. The local rag would like to be blue but needs
to cater to local prejudices. Their way around this is to reprint shit from
other newspapers who are not so constrained.
“Flaunt”?
Television news? Haven’t owned a television for several years.
When reading something on the internet and encounter a pay wall I pass that
source and move on. I do spend $4.93 to subscribe to the local rag. In spite of
themselves, they occasionally publish local information I can use.
Is there a point to all this, WSF? Just this, I will not support
financially propaganda media. Yes, it is only a tiny drop in the bucket,
but it is my drop.
As always, YMMV
The picture was swiped from a leftist propaganda rag. Gives me a
warm fuzzy feeling
7 comments:
Is that a maple syrup tap? Maybe.
The only thing good in the papers anymore are the comics!
Richie
No, water.
Old NFO
Yeah for the comics. there are some stories that are important. Road closures, crime patterns, civic events, local sports, etc.
We had a local rag here, but it folded. The articles sucked, but the ads were useful if you needed somebody to do something. I subscribed. It was available in print and digital formats. Then the person fled the area, absconding with my few shekels worth of subscription.
During the years I managed the dealership's offsite sales I dealt with many small town publishers. Most, including the local radio stations, were marginal operations. Worse, our results using them wasn't a good return for the money spent. Towards the last year we did these sales we went with direct mail. The agency was run by a car guy and he put our flyer into every mail address within a zip code. One paper, in Saquache (San Luis Valley) had a circulation of 600 and still used lead Linotype presses.
Most of these small town papers exist off publishing legal notices and the occasional merchant ads.
With you, haven't owned a propaganda spewing TV for almost two decades.
LSP
Too many commercials and even much of the entertainment programming is propaganda.
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