Posted on 01/29/2026 4:47:10 AM PST by DFG
Exhibit A: ARDEMGAZ
To this add the subsidies provided to local legacy media by left wing foundations. Increasingly, these organs function as agitprop outlets, no longer practicing real journalism. There’s an excellent chance your local paper and TV stations have been corrupted by leftist dark money.
I haven’t read the paper in at least 6 years. Tampa only has 1 newspaper, the paper is only on Wednesday and Sunday. My dad said Tampa Bay had 3 papers in the 70s...
Explains how local rags are still in business. Ours has hardly any ads in it anymore and circulation is way down, yet they keep printing it.
“Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power in the Weston World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive nd the judiciary. One would like to ask; by whom has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
we never got justice for the “journo-lister” collusion that installed demon obama
Somehow the worthless State newspaper still survives.
Every single aspect of what a local newspaper used to do is now handled by something else. The county will not lose local news if local papers fold. There are plenty of local news blogs and sites with reporting that is just as accurate as the propaganda that comes from these rags.
Not unlike...
Two boys are playing football in Golden Gate Park when one is attacked by a rabid Rottweiler. Thinking quickly, the other boy rips off a board of the nearby fence, wedges it down the dog's collar and twists, breaking the dog's neck. A reporter who was strolling by sees the incident, and rushes over to interview the boy. "Young Forty Niners' Fan Saves Friend From Vicious Animal," he starts writing in his notebook. "But I'm not a Niners fan," the little hero replied. "Sorry, since we are in San Francisco I just assumed you were." said the reporter and starts again. "Little Oakland Raiders' Fan Rescues Friend From Horrific Attack" he continued writing in his notebook. "I'm not a Raiders fan either," the boy said. "I assumed everyone in the Bay Area was either for the Niners or Raiders. What team do you root for?" the reporter asked. "I'm a Dallas Cowboys fan." the child said. The reporter starts a new sheet in his notebook and writes, "Little Redneck Kills Beloved Family Pet."
This piece is characteristic of a person who digs for evidence.
Nice job, Mr. Greenfield, thank you.
Back in the 60’s and 70’s, my parents had two papers delivered each day. The morning paper was the Houston Post. Liberal rag. The afternoon paper was the Houston Chronicle. Conservative paper.
The Post went broke and the Chronicle was the last man standing, but they hired a bunch of leftys from the Post, so it became infected as well.
California Local News Fellows at the UC Berkeley Journalism school
While true, the fact is that media is shrinking in number and influence alongside this corrupting of journalism.
"Americans’ confidence in the mass media has edged down to a new low, with just 28% expressing a 'great deal' or 'fair amount' of trust in newspapers, television and radio to report the news fully, accurately and fairly. This is down from 31% last year and 40% five years ago.Meanwhile, seven in 10 U.S. adults now say they have 'not very much' confidence (36%) or 'none at all' (34%).
Trust in Media at New Low of 28% in U.S. Gallup, 2 October 2025.
That distrust grows, as above, the "state funding" which one finds seems not to be 'keeping pace' with the growing distrust.
But then the UC system is a California state entity, in a state wherein its own state debt races forward to be unsustainable. California is the national "champ" in going into hock.
California Debt Clock
“Your Local Paper is Taxpayer-Funded Government Propaganda”. I call my local paper the Salina Urinal..I mean Journal.
“””””Back in the 60’s and 70’s, my parents had two papers delivered each day. The morning paper was the Houston Post. Liberal rag. The afternoon paper was the Houston Chronicle. Conservative paper.””””””
I used to read them both along with the original Houston Press, also worked for them all, from hawking the Chronicle on downtown street corners to paper routes for the others.
who reads a “Local Paper” anymore?
Well I got nothin’ ‘gainst the press
They wouldn’t print it if it wasn’t true
I buy the Richmond Slimy Piss Patch for it’s intrinsic value you know for fire starting and masking for spray painting.
Good tobkeep watch on a certain segment...it is where I found that Oregon has similar “news” funded by the State. Need to go find it again...it has an innocuous name like Oregon News Service or something.
See my tag line.
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