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Demeter

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60. We don't HAVE a local newspaper

Thu May 10, 2012, 10:57 AM

May 2012

The Fundies bought it and destroyed it. They were trying to "convert" the "People's Republic of Ann Arbor" to Reaganism by slanting the news and endorsing GOP candidates. It didn't take. Subscription dropped precipitously.

So they shut it down, broke all the unions, and created this print / on-line abortion to replace it. Still slanted, still espousing GOP talking points, it's an "Advertising delivery system" that bills itself as "hyper-local news", which uses snippits of usually inaccurate gossip or rumor to "sell" it. (They once published the wrong starting time for the football game...that's how unconcerned with journalism this product and company are).

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