The Tuesday, June 2, 2009 front page headline in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle was about a planned rally by tax protesters that will take place on July 4th here in Bozeman.
The Chronicle does not make its articles available online.
Immediately I wondered – what other groups get headlines when they merely plan an event? The anti-Baucus pro-single payer rally on Friday drew some after-the-fact coverage, but the staff writer, Daniel Person, was rather clueless, not understanding that Baucus opposes a “public option” and going to great lengths to quote all opponents of the single payer idea. It’s as if it was a fringe idea without much public support.
But back to the headline – why? Why does a fringe group warrant a headline more than a month in advance of its planned event?
The only answer I can think of is that the editors of the Chronicle, who are right wing tools, are promoting the event by giving it as much advance publicity as they can. And when it actually happens? More headlines!
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Mark, two things:
1) The gist of the story wasn’t that the teabaggers were planning their protest, but that they demand that the city shut down Main Street for it. The city has refused because that would cost the city a deal of money. That conflict should have been the headline, don’t you think?
2) Because I’ve been too busy this last week to read more than 5 or 6 websites and the hard copy of the newspaper, I didn’t find out about the shooting in Helena until I read Intelligent Discontent yesterday. I went back and looked. Every other major paper in the state reported it as news. The Comical? Nothing.
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“Right-wing tools”?!
LOLOLOLOL
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Rusty – the Chronicle carries four regular right wing columnists – George Will, Pete Geddes, John Baden, and the evere-so-extreme Tammy Hall. To balance this, they have the housebroken liberal, Ellen Goodman.
Now if they are left wing, why do you suppose they tilt so heavily right editorially?
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Rusty, himself a right-wing tool, is the fabrication of Reaganist denialism. He cannot even acknowledge that being a right wing tool could be deceitful or harmful. The Bozeman Comical is obviously deceitful, so to Rusty’s thinking, they simply can’t be a right wing tool.
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Do I give the chickens my leftover teabags? If it’s a libertarian city where chickens are a right everywhere, is gambling a right everywhere too?
Cover the city with chickenshit and gambling parlors, while the party goes on down Main Street. Film at 11
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I do believe that the chickens were the ones hiding under their beds wetting their pants and telling George W. Bush “Pleeeeease! Protect me! I’m so scared of terrists!!!”
Regarding the tax resisters, I don’t care what they do. I just thought it odd that with all that goes on in this town, that group gets a front page headline.
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It’s your worst nightmare, isn’t it? Tax resistance spreads, collections collapse, and your fantasy of the government controlling everything goes down in flames.
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Hi Max.
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It could be simply that the Chronicle relates to government limiting the 1st Amendment, foundational to any newspaper, even the Chronicle. On the other hand, it surprises me the Chronicle gives a hoot. “Commerce” trumps democracy every single day at most newspapers. Probably just a slow news day.
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