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Much of our recent growth has come from breaking stories that go national. The Windham incident and the Exeter School branding scandal are two recent examples. Sites like Breitbart and Gateway Pundit have helped this cause. But there are others, and we want you to know about them.
One of the most amazing things about our continued dominance in Alexa Rank across New Hampshire is the absence of a payroll. Authors work for free, no budget, no ad managers, or salespeople—just a few folks with some ideas on the internet.
The left is having spasms of glee over the passing of Rush Limbaugh. That is reason enough to miss the man and his contribution to the debate. He was a singularly unique individual with whom I have a very small (tiny sliver of a) connection. He once mentioned my name on the air.
Former news co-anchor Robert MacNeil describes the features of successful news programs this way. Keep everything brief. Do not strain the attention of anyone. Instead, you must provide constant stimulation. To that end networks use variety, novelty, action, and movement.
TMEW, who generally doesn’t get political at all, had one of her few outbreaks herself on the news that there has been “two new outbreaks at Hackett Hill Center and Mountain Ridge Center” (Manchester and Franklin). She exclaimed WHY does it seem they are rolling out these announcement every couple of days; they’re ALL infected …
Joe Biden didn’t just tell a Detroit autoworker he was full of Shiite, the other day. He wagged his finger at him and threatened to slap him in the face. In the name of truth and unbiased reporting, NBC (not unexpectedly) edited that part out.
According to Nashua, Alderman (and NH State Rep), Jan Schmidt ‘Grok Hates Women – with a passion. Especially if they speak up.’ That might be news to Kimberly Morin, Susan Olsen, Michelle Levell, Ann Marie Banfield, Ellen Kolb, Judy Aron. Wait, I’m not done.
For years the Drudge report aggregated news content that helped surfers find something outside the main-stream media diet. Drudge has since been overcome by TDS. But we have good news. Dan Bongino has taken his podcast success and done us a solid with the Bongino Report.
Venice is experiencing ‘record flooding™’, and it has probably flooded into your news feed. Experts are all up in arms. But about 40 years before you probably had a “newsfeed,” experts predicted Venice would be gone by 1990.
The majority of the recent change is the result of advances in communications inter-connectivity. The ability of people to get a lot of information for free is very recent. Was this one of the biggest tactical blunders in history? Was this decision to give away access to knowledge for free a mistake?
