Been following your stuff ever since the Bundy Craze/Days , listened to Bundyville & Burn Wild podcast about Earth First. Read your book about Lori Vallow
Love your heart Leah! Much of what you say about journalism as a career also applies to the lessor known field of community organizing, although it’s even less corporate. ❤️🔥
Leah, I’ve been catching up on Substack and so just read this (I’m old, I have Parkinson’s, it’s been a rough winter). I started in journalism before the influx of the greedy vultures of carrion capitalism had turned their sights on newspapers, but I got to watch it happen in real time, the last 10 years while on staff at an alt weekly (one of the last of the independents, the Sacramento News & Review, now on life support and apparently about to pull the plug).
I weep for the state of journalism, right up until I come across youngsters like you and Ryan (and some of the kids I trained, who are raising hell in Sacramento and SF these days).
But here’s the thing: It’s not just that we need good reporting (which we do), but that there is room in the public attention span for good journalism. I suspect that a big chunk of the population of St. Helens read your piece on the takeover of city government by the police union. It was good, solid reporting, and you know they’re talking about it (even—especially!—the people who don’t want it out there).
It gives me hope, not least because now that the greedy vultures have picked the carcasses of the newspapers they killed, there are a lot of good places to start a newspaper out there.
And it was the sort of story to make me open my wallet and subscribe to The Western Edge. Keep up the good work, kiddo.
I can't remember when I first found you, so to speak. I think it might have been Bundyville. I think I actually stumbled onto Bundyville through reading somebody's comment on Facebook! So Facebook isn't entirely a bunch of garbage! 🤣 I was hooked ever since and I've read just about everything of yours I can get my hands on (still need to read Blazing Eye Sees All) and listen to as many podcasts as I can, though I'm a little behind on some. I'm so glad you haven't given up. All anyone has to do to see you're serious about journalism is read a few sentences of anything you've ever written. I'm so disappointed in OPB because I do support public broadcasting.
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Been following your stuff ever since the Bundy Craze/Days , listened to Bundyville & Burn Wild podcast about Earth First. Read your book about Lori Vallow
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Subscribed. Thank you for never quitting!
Thank you, Leah. I loved your keynote talk at Terroir in McMinnville.
Love your heart Leah! Much of what you say about journalism as a career also applies to the lessor known field of community organizing, although it’s even less corporate. ❤️🔥
You go!!!!!
Leah, I’ve been catching up on Substack and so just read this (I’m old, I have Parkinson’s, it’s been a rough winter). I started in journalism before the influx of the greedy vultures of carrion capitalism had turned their sights on newspapers, but I got to watch it happen in real time, the last 10 years while on staff at an alt weekly (one of the last of the independents, the Sacramento News & Review, now on life support and apparently about to pull the plug).
I weep for the state of journalism, right up until I come across youngsters like you and Ryan (and some of the kids I trained, who are raising hell in Sacramento and SF these days).
But here’s the thing: It’s not just that we need good reporting (which we do), but that there is room in the public attention span for good journalism. I suspect that a big chunk of the population of St. Helens read your piece on the takeover of city government by the police union. It was good, solid reporting, and you know they’re talking about it (even—especially!—the people who don’t want it out there).
It gives me hope, not least because now that the greedy vultures have picked the carcasses of the newspapers they killed, there are a lot of good places to start a newspaper out there.
And it was the sort of story to make me open my wallet and subscribe to The Western Edge. Keep up the good work, kiddo.
I can't remember when I first found you, so to speak. I think it might have been Bundyville. I think I actually stumbled onto Bundyville through reading somebody's comment on Facebook! So Facebook isn't entirely a bunch of garbage! 🤣 I was hooked ever since and I've read just about everything of yours I can get my hands on (still need to read Blazing Eye Sees All) and listen to as many podcasts as I can, though I'm a little behind on some. I'm so glad you haven't given up. All anyone has to do to see you're serious about journalism is read a few sentences of anything you've ever written. I'm so disappointed in OPB because I do support public broadcasting.
I really appreciate all your encouragement, and for reading!