Independent Media Archives

NewsGaurd is Back to Review Us – My ‘Polite’ Response

January 23, 2025January 16, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Last January, NewsGuard caught up with GraniteGrok to ask some questions about articles we had published, with which we can only assume they took umbrage—things about COVID, Masks, J6, 9/11, that sort of thing. We got a rating (in the mid-30s), and I used it the same way we do all assaults on our platform. … Read more

In Defense of Free Markets, Free Speech and Free People

February 22, 2024 Steve MacDonald

We are reaching out to you with an urgent appeal. As a leader in local independent media, we are dedicated to providing you with unfiltered news and opinions you can only get at GraniteGrok.com. Every day, we strive to make a meaningful impact on cultural and political debate in defense of free speech and free people.

Remember When the Political Left Wanted a Return to the Fairness Doctrine? That’ll Never Happen Again

January 13, 2024 Steve MacDonald

If we learned anything at all from the drama that was COVID, it is that the government does not take your natural rights, or their protection, seriously. It is not interested in any opinion that is not its own, and using force to get its way is always an option. This should scare more people than it does.

Let Londonderry Times Publisher Deb Paul Go … With a Warning

December 18, 2023 Steve MacDonald

Londonderry Times publisher Deb Paul has been dragged through the court system thanks to detractors around town who are less than enthusiastic about her refusal to toe their line. This Wednesday, a judge will decide how effective their campaign against her has been.