the yuma sun and the arizona daily star
Two newspapers in the second and third largest cities in Arizona are at opposite poles in the political spectrum. The Star knows nothing bout economics, and the Yuma Sun knows nothing BUT economics. Buried in the sands of socio-economic libtarianism, and, I might add the San dunes of western Arizona and far eastern California, site of countless Hollywood film: the Shiek, Son of Shiek, Star Wars, and a host of other desert films. The parched dry climate of over 110 in the summer has fried the locals view on the world as well. The paper and it's editorials take a hard right stand on the economy. Tough stuff. Stand and deliver...the money. In my four years there, I had never seen the paper, it's editorializing or its readers bleed from the heart. In my view, they have none.
The Arizona Daily Star in Tucson - flip side. As discussed, this low-rent, Boulder, Colorado, flip side hippie village rests squarely in the sixties, or at least it thinks it does. Aged, burned out practitioners of the faded jeans, weed lovers of the "revolution" that died in 72, according to Dotson Rader, are alive and well, pumping their S*$% daily in newprint in the old Pueblo's only paper.
Sad state of affairs. Practically any Circle K will sell out our state paper, the Arizona Republic, from Phoenix before the local rag. Does the Star get the message? Nope. The Republic is a good example of slightly to the right middle of the road, everybody lives here, state wide coverage there is. I learn more about border security than I do from the local sheet. Tucson could not support two papers, the oldest one died a few years back, once editored by the former county sheriff who knew Wyatt Earp.
Nothing, apparently, lasts forever. Neither will the Yuma paper, nor the Tucson paper unless they gather in all points of view and capture more readership. They have seen the enemy, as POGO once said, " and it is us."
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The Arizona Daily Star in Tucson - flip side. As discussed, this low-rent, Boulder, Colorado, flip side hippie village rests squarely in the sixties, or at least it thinks it does. Aged, burned out practitioners of the faded jeans, weed lovers of the "revolution" that died in 72, according to Dotson Rader, are alive and well, pumping their S*$% daily in newprint in the old Pueblo's only paper.
Sad state of affairs. Practically any Circle K will sell out our state paper, the Arizona Republic, from Phoenix before the local rag. Does the Star get the message? Nope. The Republic is a good example of slightly to the right middle of the road, everybody lives here, state wide coverage there is. I learn more about border security than I do from the local sheet. Tucson could not support two papers, the oldest one died a few years back, once editored by the former county sheriff who knew Wyatt Earp.
Nothing, apparently, lasts forever. Neither will the Yuma paper, nor the Tucson paper unless they gather in all points of view and capture more readership. They have seen the enemy, as POGO once said, " and it is us."
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