The Maine Wire has picked up a staggering 4,000 in additional Facebook followers in just the past couple of days alone, bringing its total to 204,000.
The Maine Press Association is extolling the alleged accomplishments of its resigning executive director who has watched The Maine Wire steamroll the antiquated legacy newspaper club during her tenure.
Diane Norton’s “leadership, experience and commitment to local journalism have strengthened both the association and the industry statewide,” the group said with a straight face in announcing her retirement Tuesday.
MPA officials apparently missed the part of the movie where The Maine Wire – one of whose reporters was assaulted in recent days – became the state’s fastest-growing investigative news outlet, overtaking its paleolithic colleagues.
The association’s biggest member, the Portland Press Herald, is still walking on all fours despite its recent purchase by the overestimated National Trust for Local News.
While The Maine Wire has reached a remarkable milestone of 204,000 followers on Facebook the Press Herald remains stuck at 94,000.
The Maine Wire has picked up a staggering 4,000 followers in just the past couple of days alone, evidence covering the news actually creates an audience.
The association says it is searching for a Norton successor who can “help strengthen local journalism across Maine.”
Actually it could save a salary by persuading its members to – drum roll – simply start covering the news instead of covering up the news.
If the Maine Press Association really wants to “help strengthen local journalism” the first thing it might do is condemn the violence visited upon Maine Wire reporter Jon Fetherston in the past few days.
Fetherston has been assaulted, and had his tires slashed, while simply covering the anti-ICE protests in Biddeford and Scarborough.
And what do we hear from the state’s impotent press group constantly trumpeting protecting reporters?
Not a word of condemnation while a fellow journalist is attacked while actually trying to interview the protestors to present their grievances.
Steve Collins, the terrorist enabler communist, sorry, columnist, for the association’s biggest member, the Portland Useless Herald, called Fetherston a “provocateur creating controversy, not a journalist” after the latter was assaulted and vandalized by ICE protestors.
Collins claims Fetherston was “not reporting” but instead advocating.
Actually no. Fetherston was trying to interview the protestors to actually let them air their opinions.
“Imagine being this guy, who hasn’t broken a single story in three years but thinks he can tell Fetherston how to do his job,” Graham Pollard, digital media editor for The Maine Wire, said of Collins. “Fetherston was one of probably 50 media outlets covering the Biddeford riot, and was specifically targeted and assaulted by the communist lynch mob just for being a conservative.”
Maine Press Association’s worst hour, with an assist from Collins, one of its members.
The association is a dinosaur with a mission of apple-pie journalism, not one strengthening the craft.
When it holds its annual cocktail party this fall, maybe one of its seminars should be “Let’s Get Serious – Just Once.”
And while they’re at it, maybe they can recruit as Norton’s successor someone who has a voicebox to actually protect Maine journalists from assault and tire slashings.
With the exception of the Maine Wire journalism is dead in Maine and most of the country
To get the truth of what’s really happening in Maine I rely on The Maine Wires honest reporting.
No BS here only honest hard to deny facts.
Not regurgitated lies, half truths or fantasy of how illegals make Maine a better place for the moon bats to swallow up because that’s how the Mills administration wants it told.
Vote for Bobby Charles for governor, and all republicans for every choice available. If not we are sure to get screwed.
Screw the democrats and there illegals first agenda.
Democrats They are treasonous bastards.
94,000 followers on faceslapbook? I’m surprised there are 94,000 libtards that are able to read.