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(orig. pub. 2\/22\/11)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been complaining about this sorry excuse for a newspaper since at least 1984.\u00a0 My best friend and her then-husband, a high-powered attorney in D.C., visited. He turned the pages of both our Denver newspapers, puzzled, and said, “Is soft news all you get here?”\u00a0

Yes, Jim, soft news is all we get, and it’s gotten worse.\u00a0 There’s been a total news blackout in Denver since William Dean Singleton took over as publisher of the Denver Post<\/em> in the 1990’s.\u00a0 Instead of news, we get mattress and dental implant ads, celebrity gossip, obituaries, doggie news, and FOUR pages of comics with NINE puzzles.

Singleton’s still in charge at “Media News Group,” which now owns virtually every paper along the Front Range in Colorado.\u00a0 It has just acquired the last of the independent newspapers, in Loveland and Longmont.\u00a0 I am very sorry to see this.\u00a0 These papers were instrumental in arousing public consciousness of Blair and Gilmore (two prosecutors elevated to judgeships in apparent reward for framing an innocent guy for murder; see this related post<\/a>). Blair and Gilmore were booted in a judicial retention election in November 2010, one of the few times that device has worked in Colorado; and it worked because the Northern Colorado press was actually reporting on citizen anger and mobilization. That doesn’t happen in Denver.

Singleton is the toady of Larry Mizel and the mobbed-up Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber, Schreck law firm.\u00a0 (See<\/em> the 1992 book by Houston Post<\/em> reporter Pete Brewton, The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush<\/em>.) I have suspected that Singleton’s newspaper acquisitions were funded by Mizel, the chair of MDC Holdings.\u00a0 Mizel and his cronies orchestrated the savings & loan debacle.\u00a0 This is where they got their seed money to begin buying all the public officials in Colorado–and believe me, they own all of them who matter. (Nationally, too.) \u00a0 Silverado S&L, with Neil Bush on the board, cost taxpayers a billion dollars on its own.\u00a0 That money flowed out the door to Mizel, Ken Good, Bill Walters, and other high-flying developers, as uncollateralized “loans” which were never paid back.\u00a0 Two executives at Mizel’s company were once indicted for illegal campaign contributions, and one was convicted of a misdemeanor, but the big fish–Mizel (who’s actually only about 5 feet tall)–is never touched.

Pete Brewton (see above) did a series of articles linking the savings & loan crooks to the CIA, the Mafia, and powerful figures in both major parties (including the Bushes).\u00a0 Most of his articles never saw the light of day:\u00a0 William Dean Singleton bought the Houston Post<\/em> and that was the end of that.\u00a0 Brewton says in his book that Singleton told him he is “good friends” with Larry Mizel–they were introduced by Michael Milken. Brewton also says this:

“…William Dean Singleton and his partners, who owned the Dallas Times-Herald<\/em> and the Denver Post<\/em>, had purchased the Houston Post<\/em>. Singleton, who was the protege of Houston banker and former Washington Star<\/em> owner Joe Albritton, is a junk-bond and borrowing patron with a milquetoast personality (except when it comes to cutting staff) and unimpressive intellect who appeared to be fronting for someone else. …”

\u00a0Like the Houston Post<\/em>, two of the other newspapers Singleton bought up had been doing S&L exposes, which were then suppressed. One was the Denver Post<\/em> and the other the San Jose Mercury News<\/em>.\u00a0 I never understood, as a business decision, why these<\/em> particular newspapers were acquired. Now I believe it was to nip in the bud investigations these papers were doing of the S&L\/junk bond rackets Singleton’s sponsors are involved in.\u00a0 In fact, the largest shareholder of the firm which presently owns the Denver Post<\/em>, MediaNews, is a hedge fund<\/em>. There can be no question that real news is suppressed whenever it might adversely impact the profitmaking plans of the banksters. (One of the recent past directors of this hedge fund is Jon Huntsman, reputed to be a Rothschild puppet<\/a>.)*

Now that Singleton’s bought up the Loveland\/Longmont newspapers, it’s apparent the agenda extends to protecting the mob plants in the judiciary.\u00a0 No more judges will be ousted in Northern Colorado, you can count on it.\u00a0 Did I mention Singleton is the chair of the Associated Press?\u00a0 He has argued in favor of media consolidation before Congress, and he is sure making it happen, boy.\u00a0

I despise the Denver Post<\/em> in part as a former Green Party candidate for Colorado Attorney General, in 2002, where this “newspaper” suppressed almost all mention of my candidacy.\u00a0 No reporter attended any press conference I ever gave, and one of the Post’s<\/em> editors, Rebecca Cantwell, rewrote<\/em> an article its legal reporter Howard Pankratz had written about the AG candidates before the election.\u00a0 She took out all the compliments and substantive information about me. Pankratz called me the morning his story ran, angry, and said, “I want to read to you what I actually<\/em> wrote.”\u00a0 It began, “Maynard is smart as a whip,” then detailing my educational background, experience, and what I stood for.\u00a0 All that was edited out by Cantwell, to swing the race to Ken Salazar, another toady of the Mizel\/Brownstein crowd.

In 2004, as the chair of the state Green Party, I picked up our presidential candidate David Cobb at the airport.\u00a0 Our publicity person had been unable to get an interview of him with either the Post<\/em> or the Rocky Mountain News<\/em>.\u00a0 They would not return her calls. She finally made contact with someone at the Rocky<\/em>, who said, uh, sorry, we’re going to be in meetings that day.\u00a0 The morning David was to arrive, in a panic to find something to do with him, I called several newspapers and radio stations in Northern Colorado.\u00a0 To my delight I instantly set up interviews with about five, including the Longmont Times-Call<\/em> and Loveland Herald<\/em>, even the conservative Greeley Tribune<\/em>.\u00a0 All these media outlets were excited to interview a presidential candidate!\u00a0 But the Denver Post<\/em> was having none of it.\u00a0 And the Rocky <\/em>was no better.\u00a0 (I believe that the guy in charge of the News<\/em>, John Temple, was put there to preside over its demise, too, so the Post<\/em> would be all that’s left.)

Now the Longmont Times-Call<\/em> and Loveland Herald<\/em> have been absorbed by the same outfit.\u00a0

I wish I could think of some solution to this.\u00a0 These fuckers control everything<\/em>.
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*As a comment notes, as of Nov. 2017 this link had been switched to point to a different webpage. I can’t find this exact quote now, but did at least link Huntsman and Rothschild with the article I’ve substituted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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