Pioneer Press has to be sold again because of antitrust laws

[preciousdove]

I think they said one in Grand Forks too along with one or two others.

[CatholicEdHead]

1. You mean they have not been repealed yet?

I am glad they are still being enforced.

[dpbrown]

2. I thought I read that the Star Tribune could shut it down

Concentrating the media is what the game's all about since the Republicans embraced "lawlessness" with their anti-regulatory stance.

[CatholicEdHead]

3. That may happen, but they will try to sell it first in "good faith"

[CrazyForKucinich]

4. Whatever takes its place can't be any worse.

Strib kicks its ass.

[preciousdove]

5. Amen

I have an email from the editor leading up to the War in Iraq replying to my charges that he was not doing his job as a member of the fourth estate in a democracy and letting the fascists take over because people were uninformed. Surprisingly, he replied said: yeah and what are you going to do about it?

In September 2000 I was so outraged at the propaganda in the PP that I canceled my subscription. At the time the Strib was only slightly better.

Every so often they come up with free newspapers and every time I start the subscription I end up calling and canceling my free newspaper because they are so outrageous (so they cannot get advertising revenue from my subscription number). I vowed the last time never under any circumstances to take the paper again until they were under new management.

I was a third generation everyday Pioneer Press reader and in the 1980's I developed a BS detector and applied it to all information especially anything dateline Washington.

Do they have "Current Events" in grade school any more? I had it daily from 3rd grade on. We were required to bring in one news article from a newspaper and a magazine each week to share with the class that we thought was interesting. We were grilled on pictures of people in government, sports, science and business. Who and what they did. In fourth grade we did it in Spanish. We also found places in news on the map. ie Dali Lama = Tibet. We were encouraged to respectfully debate politics before elections. Not that you couldn't get excited, you just couldn't call names and had to back up your facts (ie temporary sales takes almost never are temporary). I did it with my kids. (But then we had two hours of "Catechism", Catholic, Lutheran, or Baptist at homes nearby. It was strictly voluntary and nobody dissed those who did not attend.)

Whoops, slipped down memory lane there.