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MyOwnPeace

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7. It's OWNERSHIP!!!!!

Reply to Seasider (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 02:56 PM

Nov 2020

Now owned by RW-owners and have been pushing the paper and staff to the right.
Look up "Rob Rogers" (cartoonist) - fired because he made too many tRump cartoons.
The ownership is now in a contract battle with staff.
Sad.......

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Pitsbugh-Post Gazette edorsement of Trump is just laughingly bad [View all] Seasider Nov 2020 OP

Which one is owned by Richard Mellon Scaife? muntrv Nov 2020 #1

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review MizLibby Nov 2020 #2

Thanks. I forgot he died. muntrv Nov 2020 #4

that's kinda shocking to me Chili Nov 2020 #3

US Rep John Katko (NY-24 Repuke) went public yesterday and said the same thing. ARPad95 Nov 2020 #5

This is not the traditional PPG. It changed in 2018 to proTrump editorial page blm Nov 2020 #6

It's OWNERSHIP!!!!! MyOwnPeace Nov 2020 #7

Thank you for that.. bc that's the only Cha Nov 2020 #13

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette executive editor Keith Burris dalton99a Nov 2020 #8

Yep that explains a lot. Seasider Nov 2020 #10

Who woulda thunk?!?! MizLibby Nov 2020 #11

Asshole.. & trump can stick his GD thumb Cha Nov 2020 #14

Newspaper endorsements don't have as much effect as they once did. brush Nov 2020 #9

It sure didn't in 2016 Cha Nov 2020 #15

That makes a whopping....sixth? Grins Nov 2020 #12

And that brings back the old response: MyOwnPeace Nov 2020 #16