acmejack
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Sun Jun-19-05 09:20 AM
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Democracyfest coverage in Austin's "newspaper" |
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The Democracyfest 2005, despite it's roster of headliners, was mentioned in passing along with Howard Dean's speech which rated a 20 line blurb on Pg B-2, under articles reporting the arrest of a woman accused of spitting on a state trooper's uniform and that the County Sheriff needs volunteer deputies. It was a gathering of "self-styled progressives". Is that condescending or what?
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Sun Jun-19-05 09:25 AM
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that's actually good coverage. When I used to deliver that rag, i was once told that I couldn't criticize anything the statesman did. My response was that since I was not an employee but an "independent contractor" as they were so fond of pointing out, that this independent contractor had an independent opinion.
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Sun Jun-19-05 09:26 AM
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that the AA Statesman used to be liberal and reported real news, before it was bought by Cox. I've only been in Austin for 14 years, though, so I couldn't attest to it ever having been a good paper.
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Sun Jun-19-05 09:31 AM
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3. At one time it was an award winning paper. |
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That ended when it was bought by Gannett who had it before Cox. It was a fine paper in the 70's.
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Sun Jun-19-05 11:23 PM
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4. Once was a good paper as were many large Texas papers before they were |
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bought out, merged or lost all their competition. Alas, it is the same across all of our country.
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Mon Jun-20-05 07:09 AM
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5. We only have one real newspaper here now |
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...and that's the Austin Chronicle.
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