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Sarah Darer Littman's avatar

This is why we need more local news outlets. The decimation of local news has had a terrible impact on our ability to be informed citizens

Rabbi Joshua Hammerman's avatar

So true. Most of these newspapers featured are local in name only. Owned by conglomerates. Which is why they gave absurdly early deadlines.

Randy Susan Meyers's avatar

A tremendously well-done piece on the well-done and the severely disappointing NYT. (Why that anemic coverage??) Thank you, Rabbi Hammerman. Having pieces like yours is a soothing blessing in these tough, dangerous times.

Rabbi Joshua Hammerman's avatar

Thanks. I wish I felt soothed! It was nice to see the coverage. But I was selective and many other papers did not put the story on their front pages.

Randy Susan Meyers's avatar

The soothing part is seeing that others are as upset as I am. Not so much that misery loves company, as misery-comrades mean more folks will work for change.

Jonathan Gellman's avatar

The NYT frontpage of two business/baseball card size photos on No Kings rallies is indeed a head-scratcher. The 3/4 page coverage inside is not bad, but on an otherwise slow news day, squeezing the front page intro for No Kings in order to devote a third of the front page to a rouge's gallery of Assad's former enforcers in Syria reflects an odd sense of priorities.

Beverly Kezsbom's avatar

This was a great article Thanks for sharing the press coverage…difficult times but we must hang tough..together

Deborah's avatar

Thank you, Rabbi Hammerman for sharing hope and encouragement.

Patricia Edraos's avatar

Not only was their minimal protest coverage under the fold but they front paged another crabby little piece on the Democrats. Yet another subscription to drop. Thanks for sharing all the impressive local coverage.

Rabbi Joshua Hammerman's avatar

That was crabby. Perfect description. Tone deaf too.

Kikist's avatar

Thank you so much for putting this all together! It was truly exciting to watch from Germany. Even if only online! No King should be an inspiration for the whole world. And it should happen every Saturday. But then under a “We love America” banner. I think with this theme a lot of people who we would not expect would participate.

Rabbi Joshua Hammerman's avatar

It was nice to see so many American flags out there. When people sang “God Bless America,” it brought us to tears.

Susan Raquel's avatar

Good Afternoon, Wow, Just fantastic, great job! Sad to say that although our local newspaper, covers two counties in CA, announced where the No Kings Protest would be it did not mention it at all on the 18th, 19th or today.

So glad that you posted all the newspapers that you did. TY