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Pay for your news, get a subscription to a local paper, participate in your local political process if you can. We're all so focused on work and what's going on

Pay for your news, get a subscription to a local paper, participate in your local political process if you can. We're all so focused on work and what's going on in Washington that we don't allow ourselves to reserve any time or energy to understand local politics, because they're "boring".

jeffbee 6y ago
My local paper and in fact every paper in California mixes a smattering of worthwhile reporting into non-stop stupidity. Every morning the editors of the LA Times wake up and think of a new way to trash every one of my core beliefs, so it doesn't matter to me that the LA Times published one (1) worthwhile piece of art criticism in 2019. That's certainly not enough to make me overlook the fact that the LA Times has been running a large-scale real estate scam for over 100 years, considering that housing is the most important issue to me. I subscribe to CalMatters and Berkeleyside and Boom California. Anyone who considers themselves a good local journalist needs to write for those outlets if they want my dollar. I'm not here to enrich the shareholders of legacy newspapers. ETA: There actually is one good newspaper in California: the Anderson Valley Advertiser. Wouldn't want to miss mentioning America's last newspaper.
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- save_ferris 6y ago
  Do you have any evidence to back your LA Times real estate scam claim? Seems hard to believe that an organization that large would be able to pull off a conspiracy like that for 100 years without someone coming forward about it.
  - jeffbee 6y ago
    Can't tell if you are serious or not. The LAT was published by Harry Chandler, owner and developer of the San Fernando Valley and other areas. Chandler used the Times to boost migration to Los Angeles, to take over the Owens River, and to involve himself in many other affairs. For the entire 20th century the Times was Chandler's mouthpiece to remake southern California to serve the interest of his greed. This is all well-documented in dozens of books, many of which are wonderfully good reading. I recommend anything my Mark Arax or Marc Reisner, or this article from Boom: https://boomcalifornia.com/2013/09/23/there-it-is-take-it/ https://boomcalifornia.com/2013/09/23/there-it-is-take-it/
elteto 6y ago
I do, my local paper happens to be NYT :)

jeffbee 6y ago

My local paper and in fact every paper in California mixes a smattering of worthwhile reporting into non-stop stupidity. Every morning the editors of the LA Times wake up and think of a new way to trash every one of my core beliefs, so it doesn't matter to me that the LA Times published one (1) worthwhile piece of art criticism in 2019. That's certainly not enough to make me overlook the fact that the LA Times has been running a large-scale real estate scam for over 100 years, considering that housing is the most important issue to me. I subscribe to CalMatters and Berkeleyside and Boom California. Anyone who considers themselves a good local journalist needs to write for those outlets if they want my dollar. I'm not here to enrich the shareholders of legacy newspapers. ETA: There actually is one good newspaper in California: the Anderson Valley Advertiser. Wouldn't want to miss mentioning America's last newspaper.

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save_ferris 6y ago
Do you have any evidence to back your LA Times real estate scam claim? Seems hard to believe that an organization that large would be able to pull off a conspiracy like that for 100 years without someone coming forward about it.
- jeffbee 6y ago
  Can't tell if you are serious or not. The LAT was published by Harry Chandler, owner and developer of the San Fernando Valley and other areas. Chandler used the Times to boost migration to Los Angeles, to take over the Owens River, and to involve himself in many other affairs. For the entire 20th century the Times was Chandler's mouthpiece to remake southern California to serve the interest of his greed. This is all well-documented in dozens of books, many of which are wonderfully good reading. I recommend anything my Mark Arax or Marc Reisner, or this article from Boom: https://boomcalifornia.com/2013/09/23/there-it-is-take-it/ https://boomcalifornia.com/2013/09/23/there-it-is-take-it/

elteto 6y ago

I do, my local paper happens to be NYT :)