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moniss

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4. Not really it is the Gannett

Reply to brooklynite (Reply #3)

Fri Apr 26, 2024, 05:11 PM

Apr 26

crowd and you get the template whether it's here or Des Moines. They are this way about everything. They don't have much in the way of readership any longer for anything but local. They had been a well respected nationwide award winning paper before Gannett scooped them up. They are a joke here in WI and we get better news about things in Wisconsin from the neighboring state paper in Minnesota. Especially if it's about public or corporate corruption.

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The foreign news [View all] moniss Apr 26 OP

"mostly pay-walled" brooklynite Apr 26 #1

I wouldn't mind the pay-wall moniss Apr 26 #5

I'm not experiencing push ads... brooklynite Apr 26 #6

The Beeb's news is much better than the Barbie and Ken version here. Ping Tung Apr 26 #2

I'm willing to bet that the "jumble of local news" IS more important to most of their readers. brooklynite Apr 26 #3

Not really it is the Gannett moniss Apr 26 #4

Gannett or not, I'm thinking that most ordinary people DON'T think much about the Israel-Gaza protests... brooklynite Apr 26 #7

While that sort of segment of society paying moniss Apr 26 #8

Cause or effect? brooklynite Apr 26 #9

I don't mean a small town daily and moniss Apr 26 #10