> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Lacny" <jlacny at earthlink.net>
> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 5:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] right-wing hit on LF
>
>
>> The Tribune-Review is owned by Richard Mellon-Scaife. Their editors (and
>> Steigerwald is one of them) are a bunch of clowns, and everyone around
>> here
>> knows it. Unfortunately, the Trib is the major daily paper in
>> Westmoreland
>> County (suburban/rural county east of Pittsburgh), which is a cause
>> for some
>> concern, but they're not taken seriously in Pittsburgh proper. They
>> basically play the Washington Times to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's
>> Washington Post.
All the more reason for all of the talented writers on this list to contribute articles and opinion to your local Independent Media Center. It is possible for the left to create a popular, effective alternative to these regional right-wing papers if we make an effort to support projects that exist.
Pittsburgh has an Independent Media Center.
http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/
If you want to see the potential of Indymedia on a local level, check out the Indypendent, which is published bi-weekly in New York City:
Chuck