When I covered small cities in Connecticut years ago, having a real news-generator in your midst was a blessing, to be milked to the hilt. The Day of New London did such a great job covering the General Dynamics (GD) defense plant that for years that company pulled its ads from the paper and boycotted its reporters.
Today in Utah, the ordinary news media dynamics just don't work that way. Overstock.com (OSTK), which is based in Salt Lake City, isn't about to boycott the media in its hometown. On the contrary, they're solidly in its corner and have been for years -- systematically serving up a diet of pap to the people of Utah. It's reached the point that the Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News, as well as the Associated Press bureau, at times seem almost to function as extensions of Overstock.com's p.r. department.
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