Posted on 07/07/2021 4:10:15 AM PDT by MtnClimber
When the First Amendment is being abridged in a small Rocky Mountain town, you have evidence that it's being abridged for all of us.
As the country spirals out of control with a pretend president whose election is as illegitimate as he is unhinged, retreat into the idyllic American Rockies in the hopes of escaping the tyranny threatening the rest of the country has provided little satisfaction.
Even as La Plata County, Colorado, home to Durango in the southwest, succumbed to the partisan dictates of a health industry dominated by Big Pharma and the overreach of a heavy-handed health director, how does a minority population participate in a rational discussion on local affairs or partake in a lucid conversation with community officials? It was no small matter for one feisty restauranteur (CJ's Diner) to successfully challenge the official COVID narrative as he slipped through the maze of legal threats to run his own business unfettered by government interference.
It is a great disappointment to realize that the vibrancy of a Rocky Mountain town is now being strangled by narrow-minded, one-sided intransigence, as a deliberate denial of conservative or traditional values, by its local newspaper.
The insular partisan crowd found validation in a recent Durango Herald column entitled "Authoritarianism," which defines a "people who cannot tolerate complexity" and are "suspicious of people with different ideas" as it is "allergic to fierce debate" — and, in conclusion, pointed the finger at "the US, under Donald Trump." The presumption of the op-ed appears to be that the referenced breed of authoritarians can be found in a generation of Trumpers while supposing that Democrats are the most open-minded and best informed citizens in the whole wide world.
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Colorado is gone. I loved Colorado.
So did I
“Print is dead” - Egon circa 1984
Beautiful nostalgia......Thanks for the memories
Ft.Lewis college brings a lot of far left morons into Durango. The Herald is really nothing more then a college newspaper, doesnt reflect actual residents attitudes.
And I planned, at one time, to retire to Colorado. But after those kalifornia fags moved there (and became governor, etc), kolorado is not an option. Heck, I wouldn't even be able to keep my factory mags for my Glock, Beretta, Sigs ............
This is where it all started to go bad in CA.
When they controlled the media message starting back in the 80’s.
We used to call Bay Area Ch 2, “Boo Hoo Two” as they were always complaining how bad things were for Oakland residents.
I see this in our local newspaper. I suspect it has less to do with left-wing intent than with the current economics of the news. Local papers are losing readers, and aren’t able to get ad $, so cut back on staff, and fill up with wire service stuff (AP, etc.) This is invariably written by big-city liberals for liberal readers on topics that make liberals go squee. So the paper looses more readers... on and on.
A lot of small town papers are run by bigger newspaper companies
If you check the bylines most small town newspapers simply copy and paste from USA Today et al.
Odds are that small-town newspaper is owned by some conglomerate.
Sad to see how Americans have become brainwashed and incapable of individual thought.
From a 40 year local:
1. The Herald is NOT a newspaper. They dumped 6-day print and home delivery long ago.
2. Call them a blog, staffed by 20yo’s hoping to make the big time in Denver or wherever.
3. The Herald is still owned by the Ballantine family. They acquired all the others in the area, who had been relying on their printing facilities. When classified ads became a thing of the past, they sold out or folded.
4. The Herald has always been liberal, catering to the “new Durango”, starting 20 years ago. The LPEA board has followed suit and is going green.
5. The Herald is irrelevant. They preach to their choir. Editorials have humor value only.
6. No one I know pays for their web blog. Defeating the paywall is trivial.
7. Conservatives are rare, but we own critical businesses. We are not the pot shops or tourist traps. We freely trade information and such the old-fashioned way, in person, by phone, etc. Not really dinosaurs, we are more like small mammals who will survive.
Hope this clears up some of the previous speculations.
A good and accurate synopsis.
Our dinky local newspaper went left 24 years ago. Now it’s hard to advertise a yard sale without going on the internet and having your data at risk, or a surprise robbery by out-of-towners.
Abomination.
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