Fascist officials of Aspen threaten to
cancel a newspaper because its new owners
are unwoke
The Aspen Beat,
by
Glenn Beaton
Original Article
Posted By: Big Bopper,
7/2/2022 10:40:10 AM
The Aspen Times months ago published a thinly supported story suggesting that one of the local billionaires was in league with Vladimir Putin. The billionaire filed suit against the newspaper for defamation. The newspaper wanted to settle the case.
Meanwhile, the newspaper was recently bought by a family-owned group of several dozen small newspapers. Much of the family are Republicans, which may be the determinative fact in this story.
The new owners asked that the newspaper staff refrain from commenting on the pending litigation while settlement talks were ongoing. That’s standard and prudent in legal proceedings.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 7/2/2022 1:59:22 PM (No. 1204412)
An interesting little slice of the two America's facing off.
A liberal rag, The Aspen Times, got itself into defamation trouble and became party to a lawsuit. Financial trouble followed. They were bought out by a successful conservative small-town newspaper chain, Ogden Newspapers. The new owners directed staff not to publish any material related to the lawsuit, standard legal advice in court proceedings. A reporter, the editor and his replacement did not comply and were fired. The towns liberal elite, including the mayor and council members, former members and elected officials of surrounding bergs wrote a letter to the new owners expressing their outrage at this attack on "democracy!". They threatened individual actions, including pulling ads and all involvement with the paper. (Link provided to the original messages from the new publisher and the town elites.)
Beaton gleefully points out that Ogden Newspapers are protected by the First Amendment and the issue will be decided in Federal Court in Denver, where little old Aspen and their elite don't quite have so much sway. Should be a good old-fashioned western shoot-out. Saddle-up buckaroos, its time to play cowboys and commies!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 7/2/2022 2:17:56 PM (No. 1204425)
Remember when leftists were all about free speech? When did that change? Why did that change? The answer is: Free speech was only ever a means to an end for them. When they got their free speech and made their arguments, they failed to win over the American people. Then, when the speech from their opponents was too successful, they switched to the repression of speech, because the end was never freedom.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 7/2/2022 2:34:45 PM (No. 1204443)
This is most interesting as regards what is happening in leftyville Aspen. We drive through Aspen regularly on the way back from some RV'ing trips with our 15-year old fifth wheel. I, frankly, don't see the attraction to living or visiting there. Heavy traffic is a total joke and folks packed into the grocery stores and beer pubs like fish. A lot of snooties with their rebellious noses high up in the air on the sidewalks. Even on weekdays.
Take away their fake wealth and they will straighten up. The ski area, Aspen Mountain, really isn't all that great either in the winter. The snowpack is over-rated and frankly not worth skiing over rocks with those $1,500 skis. And the $225 lift tickets are a rip-off.
And the scenery isn't that good unless one craves for a buttload of private jets parked at the airport. But yes, the Maroon Bells are beautiful. However, I sense a political/social shift happening in Aspen. The long timers there have finally smelled the coffee and see what the leftism has brought Aspen. Wealth does not bring happiness and brings mis-guidedness. Let's see what happens next.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
BarryNo 7/2/2022 3:20:55 PM (No. 1204487)
Leftists were never about free speech. They were about silencing people who were willing to debate them. Their 'free speech' was always about telling everyone else to shut up so they could talk, unopposed.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 7/2/2022 4:06:48 PM (No. 1204541)
I hope the new owners do sue the Town Of Aspen and all the co-signers of that letter in Federal court. These little town bullies need to hoist up by their self-righteous petards and to experience some old fashioned justice. Sounds like the whole gvt of Aspen is being run by some world-class narcissists. I wonder if these people ever met a mirror they didn't like.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Blizzard 7/2/2022 4:09:41 PM (No. 1204545)
The Californication of Colorado continues. I loved living in Denver in the mid-to-late 80s. You couldn't pay me to move back there now.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 7/2/2022 5:06:25 PM (No. 1204603)
The Aspenites strike me as the quintessential “the crocodile wiil eat me last” people.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
downnout 7/2/2022 5:31:15 PM (No. 1204629)
Remind me to never, ever set foot in Aspen.
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I spent a "sabbatical" 18 months in between soph and Jr years of college in a little town of Cripple Creek (pop. 400). Aside from getting an unusual amount of attention from the sheriff of Teller County due in no small part to some townies who befriended me, it was a life of pumping gas, clearing land for roads outside of town and cruising Bennet Ave on weekends. I would have to say that C.C. was mostly a ghost town. The town Council thought that allowing gambling would be a great way to lure people from Down Below ( Co. Springs). Well, I had a chance to visit after 50 years being gone and all the businesses on the main drag reminded me of Las Vegas. Shame, they used to keep all the brothels and shantys south of Bennett across the Creek.
Bottom line, liberals will either screw up a natural economy or make sure no one can enjoy their little utopia as only they can define it.
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