Lepage, Lies and Newspapers

Summary


Gov. Paul LePage almost made it through a week without an uninformed, incendiary comment in public. Then, he dropped this on Friday at the Fishermen's Forum: "Buying a Maine daily newspaper is like paying someone to lie to you."

Those, mostly conservatives, who mock the "lamestream media" seem to forget that the media consists of private businesses -- newspapers, magazines, television and radio stations -- that help sustain local economies, just like manufacturers, hospitals and farms. Further, they should remember that newspapers (cable TV didn't exist yet) were so revered by the Founding Fathers that they gave them their own constitutional amendment - the first one.

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Lepage, Lies and Newspapers

Imagine if Gov. LePage had said, "Buying lobster is like paying someone for an oversize cockroach," which, like saying n...

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