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Bananas: Journalism Lay-off-Pandemic Sweeps Across America to Vermont

Investigative journalists are dropping like a congressional aide’s pants across the U.S. as main stream media lays-off thousands. Fake news powerhouse the L.A. Times has nearly emptied its Washington D.C. bureau just months before what many consider the biggest election year in American history.  This shocking move has many of the journalists questioning the real …

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Governments Are Using Intimidation To Regulate Independent Journalists on the Decentralized Internet

In the last century, states have had great control over channels of media. In most of the West, lobbying groups and cartels working with “liberal” and “democratic” governments regulated who could broadcast while governments, with their endless pools of money and political force, competed alongside private or foreign establishments.

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What’s News?

Does anyone who still has a grasp on their mind still reads the Laconia Daily Sun? Well, mostly I just read the Letters to the Editor. Yea I know, everyone’s entitled to an opinion but as the saying goes, “not to their own facts”. What has been burning my biscuits lately is that the so …

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Challenge Accepted – Challenge Won. Ethics Complaint Was Filed with the Laconia Daily Sun

Per usual, running behind. So, to catch up on this, a quick recap from yesterday: As I said here, I stopped in at the Laconia Daily Sun after the Gunstock Area Commission to file an ethics complaint against Jon Decker after his behavior at the GAC meeting. Since no one answered my knocking at the door, having …

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Why We Can’t Have Substantive Public Discussions

At the most recent meeting of the Croydon school board, I was talking to a well-educated journalist — at least, given who she works for, I assume she’s well-educated — who seemed to be unable to grasp the difference between taking something from someone and not giving something to someone.

Monday Memes

NOTE: This is a big collection.  Next time, if I have this many, I’ll split it up but I’m pressed for time now.