“The Squiers and staff created something really special in WDEV. They somehow made all of us listeners feel like we were part of something bigger. They created a connection that has often comforted the community as much as it informed.”
Exposing the coordinated global effort to censor and propagandize public opinion against the right under the guise of human rights.
Right Side Up relates local issues to the larger national issues – the national border crisis, for example.
Granite Grok founder Skip Murphy started it as a blog, only to see it grow in popularity. It is now the most read conservative publication in New Hampshire with many millions of views and readers from around the globe.
“What a gross double standard you operate by!,” Green tells FPF. “You’ll gladly publish postings which you agree with, but you somehow almost always find reasons to censor mine.”
Questions critical of the Israeli response to the Hamas invasion are asked by a leading Vermont news outlet. Governor Scott responds.
We all want to see the ecological systems of our state thrive. I am certain that we will not achieve this common goal by being cruel to one another.
In yet another potential double standard, the popular local social media company Front Porch Forum is choosing favorites when running ads for political forums.
Our most widely read/viewed news outlets are more concerned with protecting a politically powerful special interest than they are about informing the public.
The Long Emergency documentary film addresses what producers believe is a looming energy crisis featuring author and social critic James Howard Kunstler.
When a former Burlington city councilor seized the mic from a Burlington resident making a public comment, the media yawned.
While emphasizing that cost increases in many areas led to his decision, Publisher Greg Lamoureux holds the new .44% payroll tax partly responsible.
St. Johnsbury Police Department Corporal George Johnson’s press releases depart from the canned style taught at the Dragnet Joe Friday School of Cop Speak.
Starting today, Facebook and Instagram, Meta’s prominent platforms, are restricting Canadian users from viewing or sharing news links, along with broadcaster videos and photos.
One-day October conference refused ad space on Front Porch Forum, a public platform that claims to “help neighbors connect.”
An anti-child trafficking movie shunned by the media elite and denied distribution for five years is the top grossing film in America.
As part of the $650,000 investment, the university is funding a full-time, year-round position for an editor of student stories with the Community News Service at UVM.
“Rock bottom is such a lonely place,” the WCAX co-anchor said. A mental health advocate, she decided that “if I’m going to talk the talk, I’ve got to walk the walk.”
One of Vermont’s progressive media hall monitors told a reader to ‘get back to me when Klar’s at the top of any list.’
“Sound of Freedom” is based on the true story of former United States government agent Tim Ballard, founder of Operation Underground Railroad, a nonprofit that fights against child sex slavery.
“If we’re going to lower the temperature of our politics, we have to lower the stakes of politics. Politics permeates absolutely too much,” George Will said.
In addition to the budget, bills that (Cutler said) could be vetoed include underage voting in Brattleboro. ranked choice voting, the legislative pay hike, universal school meals, and a gun control bill.
VTDigger has presented a biased perspective on gender-affirming industry ‘shield laws,’ H.89 and S.37, into law on May 10th by Governor Scott.
I decided to watch the Louder With (Steven) Crowder coverage and play along to the drinking game with a nice Temperanillo and cigar.
I don’t recommend True North Reports as a source for journalistic integrity,” the junior senator from Windham County told a Burlington resident this week.
Despathy is perhaps Vermont’s most outspoken opponent of the hypocrisy of equity advocates supporting S.5, the climate reduction bill that adversely punishes poor rural Vermonters and rewards a renewable energy industry benefiting from horrific third world mining of essential metals.
Vermont’s news media are rattled and upset. They lost control of the narrative on S.5, the Affordable Heating Act.
Culture commentator Jordan Peterson saw the news about a Quechee girls team forfeiting against a team with a 6’4″ trans center, and tweeted “it’s about time” to his 3.7 million followers.
Let us see all the EB-5 records, a Vermont media organization today asked the Vermont Supreme Court.
A Vermont news service wrote a ‘just the facts, ma’am’ report on a court clearing a St. Albans police officer of assault charges. His defense lawyer, however, had more to say.
McKibben’s New Yorker essay ignores geoengineering’s long history, its differing covert and overt purposes, and its profoundly dysfunctional use as a dangerous mechanism for “climate control.”
Guy Page, editor of Vermont Daily Chronicle, will be a guest in studio at 8:05 AM Friday on WVMT’s Morning Drive with Kurt and Anthony.Callers are welcome, call 1-888-414-0303.
Veteran videographer and interviewer Rob Williams of Vermont Independent and Plan V-TV talks about the state of Vermont media with Guy Page of Vermont Daily Chronicle.
The explanation: “YouTube doesn’t allow claims about COVID-19 vaccinations that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization.”
Many Vermonters, even those born and raised here, have never visited either Island Pond or Stratton Mountain. As their live webcams show, there’s a lot to see and do there.
A Vermont video news website has published a single link with three years of reporting on vaccine and mask freedom.
The red lines on the map show where drivers found no cell service at all. Very few of them are in populous Chittenden County.
“The cancel culture is real! YouTube has cancelled us!” Restoring Our Faith leaders said today.
One byte of information Google would prefer you don’t know: they’re tracking the locations of Vermont’s Android phone users.
A WWII paratrooper changed how America experienced television.
Let this be a lesson to you all, a trans advocacy group warns.
Mainstream news coverage of the locker room conflict since the now-deleted WCAX report has essentially ‘flipped the script’ or ignored the story.
Last week two of Vermont’s largest news media ran lengthy, in-depth analyses of Article 22 – without interviewing any critics of the controversial constitutional amendment.
With the ACLU’s help, the parent organization of a Vermont online newspaper is suing the State of Vermont for hiding info about the EB-5 scandal in the Northeast Kingdom.
Tune in to WDEV 9-11 AM Tuesday for Vermont Viewpoint guest-host Guy Page and guests Kevin Ellis, Brad Broyles, Cindy Tabor and Maggie Kerrin.
“Liam who?” on August 1 became well-known – if not universally admired – by the day after the August 9 primary.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has issued new policy guidelines on how, when and why it will subpoena, execute search warrants, and arrest members of the U.S. news media.
“We have what, 330 million people in the country, and I believe we only had 19 million watching,” Gov. Phil Scott said of live coverage of the House investigation into the events of Jan. 6.
Thirteen years after starting her entrepreneurial tour de force, VTDigger founder Anne Galloway is stepping back from the daily grind and stepping more often into her garden.
Mainstream media reporting on Project Veritas is the journalistic equivalent of the fox telling you its thoughts on the farmer’s dog.
Has VTDigger kept its promise to seek payment for a freebie ad it gave to a pro-Prop 5 group?
Two longtime Vermont news reporters discuss the current state of journalism in the Green Mountain State.
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Elon Musk have a history of tangling on Twitter. Now the Tesla owner is the biggest stockholder in the social media platform.
Read the ‘Man of the Year’ post that (finally) got fake news satire website Babylon Bee kicked off of Twitter.
VT Digger donated $1000 in pro-Prop 5 advertising the day before the Vermont House approved the constitutional amendment protecting unrestricted access to abortion.
Opponents are trying to ‘cancel’ outspoken conservatives in Vermont by pressuring their venue hosts.
The GOP resolution says nothing about an attack on the Capitol. So why do state and national media insist it does?
A free-market think tank has launched a new podcast featuring host Meg Hansen interviewing informed guests about vital Vermont policy issues.
Will Vermont’s emerging online news media pry a lucrative form of advertising away from traditional newspapers?
At the height of the national agony following the George Floyd killing, the niece of Martin Luther King Jr. told an Essex Junction radio station audience why all lives matter.
Journalist Auditi Guha bashed communities “full of white people” as “boring” on Twitter on March 15, just two days before VT announced her hiring as a senior editor at VTDigger.
Every Tuesday morning Gov. Scott’s press office sends Covid-19 Data Modeling to the media before his noontime press conference. Now see it for yourself.
From TV news anchors to camera operators to radio hosts, the VAB has new Hall of Fame members.
George Soros is getting financial help from a Putney School grad and fellow billionaire to bankroll the U.S. media.
A graduate of the politically-progressive Putney School is teaming up with George Soros to bankroll local media around the country.
One of the Koch brothers paid the bills for the tonight’s PBS documentary on marijuana legalization. VPR also will air a Q & A with people who helped write Vermont’s marijuana legalization legislation.
Two Vermont co-producers of a family television program have taken out a local radio ad reminding Vermonters about Columbus Day.
Two very different Republicans – one from the Northeast Kingdom, the other from Southwestern Vermont – both ridiculed a superficial, highly partisan op-ed written by a former leader of VTDigger’s parent organization.
Press, public, the county sheriff, and the county prosecutor all were excluded from a government meeting about the future of the Grand Isle Court House, Mike Donoghue of the Islander reports.
Commentator and author Eric Metaxas today encouraged his Vermont radio audience to get involved in local government.
Two vax-skeptic Vermont journalists have been refused a place at Gov. Phil Scott’s weekly press conferences.
This July saw the best-read day, week, and month in the history of the Vermont Daily Chronicle. My heartfelt thanks to you.
In Burlington, social media operators cancel a gay Republican candidate for City Council. Soooo ‘inclusive.’
Information and tickets are now available for the September 10-11 visit of two national media powerhouses: China expert Gordon Chang and author/interviewer Eric Metaxas.
Project 14, a new statewide media outlet funded by the University of Vermont, will be led by former Obama White House communications staff member, Meg Little Reilly, a Brattleboro native and UVM graduate.
The Journal Opinion, the community newspaper for Bradford and surrounding towns in a bi-state, quad-county readership area, won three awards, including 1st place in Spot News Photography, at the 2020 New England Newspaper and Press Association Better Newspaper Competition.
Conservative Twitter commentator Brad Broyles this morning called out Sen. Kesha Ram (D-Chittenden) for stoking the fire of anti-police sentiment after the deadly shooting of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. And Ram didn’t like it.
The Ethan Allen Institute, in partnership with Mass Fiscal Alliance, is sponsoring a virtual (Zoom) event with former press secretary for George W. Bush, current Fox News host, and author of the newly released Everything Will Be Okay: Life Lessons for Young Women (from a Former Young Woman), Dana Perino.
Journalist Auditi Guha bashed communities “full of white people” as “boring” on Twitter on March 15, just two days before VT announced her hiring as a senior editor at VTDigger.
On Saturday March 27, the Vermont Liberty Network will gather at noon on the State House steps to celebrate the Green Mountain Boys of many generations past who served in the cause of Liberty. Public access TV host Steve Merrill will be a guest speaker.
At a Feb. 24 public hearing, Welch said market forces created our polarized national media and suggested government funding as an alternative.
Seven Days has around 43 employees; VtDigger around 22. How many at your local newspaper? Their budget? Local newspapers will soon face new competition for scarce ad revenue, talent acquisition/retention, fundraising/donations and future subscribers. The outcome? Put a large fish into your aquarium. What happens to the small fish?
Who are the paid conservative editorial writers in Vermont media? What programs at public radio/tv speak deeply, intensely to conservatives? Where are Vermont media’s weekly paid conservative columnists? Conservatives say that you are more likely to find two unicorns mating in your backyard then a paid conservative news/editorial employee at any large Vermont media company.
The first episode of “The Ericka Redic Show,” a Vermont Daily online video news program, is now available on YouTube. “We’ll be covering the news out of Montpelier and around the state, and why it matters to you,” host Ericka Redic of Burlington announced in the opening moments of Episode One.
“I do think FPF has gone overboard in controlling posts—at least our local monitors. Any attempt to have a reasonable discussion on BLM for example, set them off immediately—even when I presented them with pretty outrageous posts in favor of BLM. I think it’s time to move to other social media where free speech is actually encouraged.”
According to stories in the New Hampshire media, Governor Chris Sununu (R) wants to cut their state rooms and meals tax, which now stands at 9%, the same as Vermont.
Nothing reinforces conservatives’ negative media stereotypes more than watching news coverage of an event they attended being falsely portrayed as racist. They know they’re not racist. They know the event (say, the Support the Police rally in July) wasn’t racist. But coverage focused on one unknown person making one derogatory comment. Conclusion: The media came with an agenda.
If you’re nostalgic for a taste of a Thanksgiving from the good old days, you might want to watch “Thanks to Vermont,” a 1955 promotional video for Vermont products.
Seven Days should conduct a confidential poll of news staff and editorial employees of Seven Days, VtDigger, and Vermont Public Radio. How many consider themselves conservative, served in the armed forces, donated to Republican presidential candidates, belong to the local fish and game club, fly an American flag, watch NASCAR, support local police, etc.?
Vermont conservatives – and Trump supporters in particular – are media shy. At numerous Trump rallies this reporter has asked flag-waving, sign-carrying, “USA” chanting Vermonters to tell me why they support the president. Those willing to answer usually refuse to give their names. Social and family repercussions are feared. Worse, they tell me they’re worried about losing their jobs.
Dave Gram was let go as WDEV morning talk host this past weekend in part because of how he interjected his political opinions into discussions, both he and station management said. “We […]
At 9:05 this morning, WDEV listeners tuned in to the “Dave Gram Show” – only to find Vermont radio veteran Ric Cengeri hosting a new program called “Vermont Viewpoint.” Cengeri, a former […]
By Guy Page 4 PM, October 15 – At 5 AM on October 14, the New York Post published a story with this lead paragraph: “Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President […]
Guv might end State of Emergency without vaccine – if Legislature acts By Guy Page August 18, 2020 – Gov. Phil Scott would consider ending the State of Emergency before Vermonters are […]
Yes, Governor Scott, he’s still asking the tough questions August 11, 2020 – Editor’s note: Gov. Phil Scott made a tongue-in-cheek reference during a recent news conference about being unsure if longtime […]
Editor says column on systemic racism didn’t meet ‘good faith’ standard by Guy Page July 24, 2020 – VT Digger, Vermont’s most-read source of online news and commentary, on Tuesday removed a […]
VTWatercooler, others still publishing readers’ thoughts By Guy Page July 21, 2020 – VT Digger, Seven Days, and Vermont Public Radio (VPR) – three pillars of Vermont statewide news media – no […]
More State House candidates join Klar Koalition The number of candidates for statewide office affiliated with the gubernatorial campaign of John Klar now totals about 25 – with more to come, Klar […]
Liberal media think-tank publicizes conservative, computer-generated “Vermont Business Daily” By Guy Page July 17, 2020 – NiemanLab, a national, liberal-leaning media think-tank, has pegged the “Vermont Business Daily” as a conservative, partisan […]
Dr. Alveda King counsels Vermonters, Americans to repent and “live together as brothers and sisters, not perish together as fools” By Guy Page July 2, 2020 – “The answer to violence is […]
