Yesterday I posted up the video of the BCRC Keynote Speaker, Brendan Smith of the Weirs Times. He talked about how Bob Lawton had founded this free weekly newspaper, its growth, and how it was distributed across NH. He did bring up that even they have run into Cancel Culture where a couple of people complained about it being distributed – because of a fairly new column called Letters from God (remember, this is a Conservative media outlet by design):
Here is an excerpt from that video where he talks about how differently Market Basket and Shaw’s Supermarkets reacted to complaints concerning the content of the “Letters from God” column that mentioned LGBT:
Full Disclosure – I have not had the time yet to go read them but that shouldn’t matter. What SHOULD matter is Free Speech vs the Cancel Movement that is trying to crush and silence people because a very few don’t like what others either believe or are saying (and yes, I have a post or two in the works about that as well).
Well, since I had to go out and do some errands anyways (Lowe’s, across the street from the Gilford Shaw’s), I went over and decided to see for myself how “crowded” their “front alley” was (the long rectangular area where you are directed to the entrance/exit doors and where some seasonal merchandise is often displayed). To be honest, I was rather underwhelmed by the claim of “not enough room for a newsstand:
I had called Brendan before I went just to double check and upon my request, he sent me the URL to where one could find the Weirs times across the State – Only in Concord and Dover
- Shaw’s (Damante Drive, Concord)
- Shaw’s (Fort Eddy Road, Concord)
- Shaw’s (Dover)
There are 127 Shaw’s locations in the US – all in New England:
- Maine (19)
- Massachusetts (55)
- New Hampshire (26)
- Rhode Island (8)
- Vermont (19)
So I’m going to contact Shaw’s of Gilford and ask about this now that I have went and looked. And, perhaps, ask the corporate office to ask how many unique complaints there were.
This could be rather interesting. But I have a request, ‘Grok readers!
If you frequent any of those Shaw’s not in Concord or Dover, especially in NH, would you please let me know what you find (as most Shaw’s are similarly constructed): Is it so filled such that a rather small newsstand could not be located there? Or does it look like my video – is it rather empty? And if you frequent a Shaw’s that is NOT on the first list, please let me know, too, what its “space condition” is?
I think we all know what the real reason is – and it isn’t about space.
