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What’s going on at Dakotanews?

l3wis 4Comments

On Monday ‘KSFY’ posted this job ad;

I have been suspicious for awhile that the experiment they are running at DN will hit aground. Over the past couple of months I have noticed that their website is ‘glitchy’ and stories and vids don’t match up. I have also noticed half-ass production on the live broadcasts with mics cutting out, teleprompters not working (because the on-air talents have to wing it) and recently Brian Allen cancelled his ‘Matters of the State’ program with little explanation. Now they are looking for a News Director. I have asked some people who have ties to DN and they said ‘They may be downsizing thru attrition’. I didn’t think I would say this since I have gotten pretty beaten up by the media while they lift my story leads, but I am worried about our media being attacked as ‘fake news’ and now the future Orange Menace Whitehouse Occupant wants to start suing news organizations who said bad things about him (which are completely true). ABC caving to him was disgusting. I wonder if anyone at that organization has read about the lead up to power in the 1930’s in Germany. They are virtually using the same playbook and the news orgs are bailing. I was glad to hear that Gannet will fight the polling lawsuit, they should win, but our courts have become ‘Trump’ courts. I have always concluded the best way to fight this BS is to double down on the criticism and keep hammering until you can’t hammer anymore.

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Noem’s proposal to cut public broadcasting by 65% is a FASCIST MOVE

l3wis 4Comments

It is no surprise and figured she would cut it because Trump plans to cut PBS. Things took place like this in Germany not to long ago.

Public Broadcasting is fantastic. I listen or watch public broadcasting several hours a day, radio and TV. I haven’t missed a Newshour in over 5 years. Fifty minutes of worldwide news without commercial interruptions.

The bias on PBS is so minimal you wouldn’t even notice it.

This is a fascist move, many dictators throughout time know that killing the media or CONTROLLING it is in their favor.

I will say when I first heard about this, I was pretty pissed, but not surprised. FASCISTS like Noem have figured out in order to control the narrative you must own the narrative.

If Kristi and Trump kill PBS it will be the first step in controlling the media, they already have plans to buy up the news media thru private ventures.

If you think getting unbiased news now is hard, wait until this takes effect.

Kristi? What do Trump’s boots taste like?

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Kum & Go to change name to Bum & Ho

l3wis 3Comments

Not true, but I thot I would start with a funny. It only took 49 years to figure this out;

Maverik, a rival chain that bought Kum & Go in 2023, announced that it’s in “process of rebranding Kum & Go stores, with the intent to unify our entire combined footprint under the Maverik brand,” marking an eventual end to the 49-year-old naughty name.

So I encourage my readers to Kum up with new names, I’m going with Bum & HO.

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The Dakota Skab shows it’s true colors

l3wis 7Comments

The Skab is at it again, being the propaganda wing of the SD GOP;

The Republican president, who last week won back the White White White House in a landslide victory

OK, they didn’t say White 3 times, but they should have. DJT got 1M more votes then he did in 2020. It wasn’t a landslide, it was a squeaker. He pretty much secured his base and Harris did not. To be honest, it is kind of sad, you had 4 years to improve your numbers and this is all you got?! A landslide in my opinion is taking the popular vote by at least 5 points.

The Skab is a Red Meat publication, and little else. I would be embarrassed as a journalist to be this bias. Oh, I am bias, but I am also an editorial blogger who doesn’t have to fight with my sales department. I also find it ironic that after a few years their subscriptions are only 7,000. Pretty sad considering they are doing public notices for over 200K people. I don’t have a subscription on my site, but if I looked at data I have about 10,000 unique visits a month. I make very little money, so I don’t care, but when you try to be the propaganda wing of the SD GOP and only have a teeny tiny subscription rate it makes you wonder if it really matters. Recently someone who advertised in the Skab told me he got no bump in business from the ad. And I said, ‘Why would yah?’ You have a bunch of right wing nuts commenting and reading the site. Extremists in both parties only make up about 20% of the electorate respectively. So why do we tolerate this horse sh!t? I encourage everyone to cancel their subscription, it’s not news, it’s just huff and puff and a bunch of misspelled words from a boozer staff.

I think once Americans will be forced to eat canned sodium filled vegetables for a year they will realize how much of a mistake it was (can’t wait to see the images of rotting vegetables in California fields). When your policy is based on discrimination, nothing good comes from it. I told friends today, enjoy your local ethic restaurants over the next few months, because after DJT takes office our options will be Panda Express and Taco Bell. As Kramer would say;

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Argus drops case against the Skab

l3wis 10Comments

A good attorney would have told you, you can’t win. So why didn’t the same attorney tell you to file NEW charges in a NEW case?! I have said this is NOT about state law and filing deadlines this is about a MASSIVE conflict of interest. Every single elected official on that dais, including Mayor Poops, received donations and campaign help from the Skab’s main investor, Matt Paulson, then they voted to GIVE a contract to the same person who donated to their campaigns. But it gets even better, they all knew Matt and his Peach colored Lambo SUV was an investor in the Skab before the vote, but the public didn’t know. Probably one of the most unethical and corrupt votes I have ever seen the council take. Quid pro Quo. How can anyone TRUST the council to make a decision based on fairness from now on? They can’t. And here is the kicker, the Argus has more circulation and reach then the Skab, so this tells me the decision by the councilors was based on bias and not facts. I will say it again, I don’t think either paper should have the notices, a gigantic waste of tax dollars. You can see all the notices to your heart’s delight for free online and if you don’t know what the internet is you can always go down to the clerk’s office and get a copy. So wasteful, but not surprising since our state legislature is ran by the stupidest people imaginable. Still waiting for ETC. or 605 Magazine to apply for the notices. I wonder if the AL counsel even knows what a conflict of interest is . . . remember when Randall Beck was gunning for the Denty?

Ironically, if the AL would have reached out I could have provided them evidence of the corruption and lies with some very colorful text messages from one of the Skab owners(?). To which he sent me even more nasty messages before I had to block him. He’s a real Prickly Pear. Maybe the council pricked the Skab because of their enormous professionalism 🙂 and almost Pulitzer Prize winning journalism in uncovering Noem’s hair salon receipts.

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