Yikes! Dallas, Texas: the site of the JFK assassination, the boiling center of the super-right-wing-oil rich and their anti-democracy agenda. Texas, the home of the lawless cowboy prez whose brother stole the election in Florida that brought him to office, whose wealthy entitlement family roots have convinced him that he deserves to end up on home plate without actually running around the bases.
Our wonderful, 117-year old Cook County News Herald, which has managed to survive intact despite many previous acquisitions after an un-named and unlamented owner sold out to the highest bidder a few years back.
But the local staff have soldiered on, despite staff cuts and long hours to the profit of the new owners. They have if anything raised the news coverage, as well as the photos and page layout, to an unprecedented high.
Well. Perhaps it won't matter what media conglomerate takes over next, so long as the local folks still put the paper together. This sort of takeover acquisition of newspapers in recent years is virtually universal. We can only hope for the best here in Cook County...
But, for all small local newspapers, it is not for the best that rich conglomerates take them over. Cui bono? Read the Duluth story below:
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· Duluth News Tribune ·
Friday, June 08, 2007
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