ok we have two newspapers in town that deserve some recognition..the Daily Sound and the Santa Barbara News-Press...on the front page of each paper was a reminder to the readers that they are reading award winning journals! the News-Press has won awards for...for uh, um..let me see..the caption says: the News-Press Food Section from May 2010 helped the paper win first or second place in lifestyle coverage..from California's Newspapers Publishers Association..."helped the paper win first or second place"...what does that mean??..did they win first place? did they win second place? can't they make up their minds? I don't understand!! for example, if you win an award for something, you get a ribbon or plaque that says First Place...or Second Place...it doesn't say: WINNER EITHER 1st or 2nd Place on the plaque!! you know what I mean? if you are going to toot your own horn, make sure your not blowing into a pennywhistle!!
and then there's KCOY TV..best comedy broadcast award when the newscast froze for 10 minutes and gave us Arturo looking like a drunk, scary illegal alien!
then we got the Daily Sound, who turned 5 years old...they put it on the front page: AWARD WINNING PAPER MARCHES ON..so naturally the News-Press had to have a little blurb about herself...the Daily Sound is a better paper..it's a working class paper..it wasn't handed to the owner from a divorce settlement!! the guy worked for it!
they have an uncensored online comments section that the News-Press would not dare do because of Wendy's love of censorship...so even though the Sound has had rightwing crazies like Gina Perry doing columns, at least they recognized when Gina started to swallow her tongue and got her some help...
unfettered access to information is necessary for a free society..there will be folks like Wendy who try to control the info to push their little agendas, but it is everyone's responsibility to make sure the truth gets out...and that's where independent bloggers come in..bloggers are the the folksingers of today only instead of old guitars, we use computers!
because this aint' no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no foolin' around....
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