The Maine Press Association, comprised of liberal passé rags, is doing its best to put lipstick on a pig.
The organization has announced an upcoming event called “Local News Day.”
Better yet, the celebration is being organized by the scandal-plagued Maine Community Foundation.
The excitement is set for April 9.
Exciting for purveyors of fake news, that is.
“A national effort to celebrate and support local journalism is gaining momentum – and Maine is in,” the MPA emailed members Tuesday. “Local News Day is a chance for newsrooms to invite their communities to show up for local news.”
Show up, which is the extent to which Maine’s lazy, sorry, legacy outlets go to inform the state’s news consumers.
“How can we activate this day in Maine?” the association asked its members.
(Maybe by actually covering the scandals enveloping the Democrat-led administration in the state capital?)
“Host a community coffee hour with your reporters.”
Now there’s a winner right there.👍
“Launch a membership, subscription, or pledge drive. Create behind-the-scenes content to spotlight the reporting process. Recognize your hardworking staff. Or create something entirely your own.”
Can’t make it up, folks.
Or maybe you can, in the MPA’s version of irony, “create something entirely on your own.”
“Sign up at LocalNewsDay.org to join hundreds of newsrooms across the country who are participating in this nationwide day of action. The Maine Monitor, Bangor Daily News, The Midcoast Villager, and Maine Trust for Local News have already signed on.
“If you are planning something, reach out to Lisa DeSisto at [email protected] so Press Forward Maine can share and promote your plans statewide – and make sure Maine shows up in a big way.”
That would be the Lisa DeSisto who resigned as CEO of the state’s largest newspaper joke, the aforementioned Portland Press Herald, six months after it was bought by The National Trust for Local News.
DeSisto transitioned from a dying daily newspaper to become “senior advisor” to the Maine Community Foundation, the website of which says it “brings people and resources together to build a better Maine through strategic giving, community leadership, personalized service, local expertise and strong investments.”
Not so fast Einstein.
In fact, the foundation is now mired in a brewing firestorm over fundraising for victims of Lewiston’s recent mass shooting.
The Maine Wire reported two days ago that DeSisto’s organization “is facing fresh blowback after emails surfaced showing the foundation’s own consultant told victims’ families that “100% of all donations” would go to victims and survivors, without mentioning nonprofit grants that later became the center of an intensifying public scandal.”
But heck, folks, let’s all celebrate Local News Day! April 9. Mark it on your calendars! 🥳
