After filing my notice of appeal this week, my first post will share findings on Alden Global Capital’s lawyers. Despite extensive coverage of Alden, no one has written about the tactics used by their lawyers to defend them in court. What I’ve uncovered is profound. 1/

Robert Decherd, who controls ~55% of voting power, deserves big recognition for choosing the lesser of 2 evils by turning down Alden Global Capital’s $20/share bid for Hearst’s $16.50, opting for civic duty over millions. At least Hearst has shown it can preserve a functioning metro newsroom. 1/

Big day for the future of journalism in America. Today shareholders of @dallasnews.com will vote on selling to Hearst..or Alden Global Capital. The Dallas Morning News was not just a local, it became one of the most important nationally recognized newsrooms in the country. Today it’s do or die.

It wasn't ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ My years long investigative report on the collapse of The Denver Post under Alden Global Corp came about f/researching the tension between Alden execs & editors Lee Ann Colacioppo & Matt Sebastian. I’ve been studying Kyle Clark’s tensions w/his bosses too 1/ #copolitics #coleg

I got inspired this week to start setting up a newsletter as a service for watching the watchdogs. Checks & balances are important, but Colorado media readers only have trolls & haters to call out lapses in integrity, no real watchdog for the important stuff. #copolitics #coleg

If you were just sent from a mention by Kyle Clark & weren’t sure what it was about -> I spent years researching & writing an investigation on the Denver Post’s collapse under Alden Global Capital. It’s a critical report people in Colorado can read but it doesn’t mention or involve Clark 1/

I hope this is my last point to #copolitics & #coleg on this serious matter of Kyle Clark’s abusive side which he demonstrated in the public again today. It’s sad, he is probably over worked, but it’s most critical to see that he & @9news.bsky.social don’t maintain a legitimate ethics policy.

Welp, another week, another mention for 9News in a long list of sad updates about people doing nothing different. Vince Bzdek is giving advice about ethics again at the musty & dark alcohol stained Denver Press Club in 2wks. New award for Alden Global Capital’s estoppel lawyer #coleg #copolitics

Boulder electric fire truck.

@bouldercast.com It’s almost Boulderhindge. When exactly will it be?

Still appreciating the newsletter despite my criticism, @coreyhutchins.bsky.social If friends & family are worried about ur infatuation w/Kyle Clark, they are not alone. I ran the stats w/PHP, you’re overall 80.4% likely to mention Kyle Clark or 9News in tomorrow’s newsletter #copolitics #coleg

Google’s AI news created from the news of several other news outlets is WAY BETTER. This action by Google is no different than anyone who writes a blog post about the news & cites sources. News businesses are f*kd because they haven’t changed their business model since the Industrial Revolution.

When blogging, video blogging, & podcasting got going, big media saw how the mediums were being disrupted & they did nothing. They didn’t change their business model, nor did they change their dependence on corporate greed. I am not sorry for Colbert or Kimmel, they are free to continue.

If @dallasnews.com rejects Alden’s $20/share bid (after already taking the poison pill), it sets a new benchmark: Compared to Hearst’s $16.50/share offer, Alden would be worth –$18.5M in “negative value” to journalism at just this one company.

No one left to catch “Is Colorado wine is…” at the Denver Post. Guess the copy desk is gone too. #coleg #copolitics #Boulder Found via boulderdaily.net

In retrospect, compared to what we see happening now with AI search returns, Google became totally evil in prioritizing marketing and advertising content for sales despite their original motto, “Don’t be evil”. Think they won’t reinvent how to inject what generates more revenue for them?

"We’ve spent centuries worrying that some president or king will seize our presses when all along it has been our own owners, publishers & editors—ever anxious about the sensibilities of advertisers, readers, & subscribers—who are those most likely to halt them" - Lowery [via @jayrosen.bsky.social]

Colorado Startup Week in Denver / See the full schedule of events happening Sep 15 - 19, 2025 and explore the directory of Speakers: costartupweek2025.sched.com #Boulder

The issue in #Boulder is apparently a false alarm. Here’s my message to @boulderrl.bsky.social and @coloradosun.com. I may not be exactly right, I’m suggesting something felt the reports were a bit too soon & it’s worth considering the effects on people in this changed/new online world we are in.

In retrospect, Microsoft and Google spreadsheets couldn’t open up .csv files without a series of questions one would need to solve correctly merely because of programming laziness to figure it out themselves.

Truth matters. The Dallas Morning News rejected Alden Global Capital’s outsized bid after seeing what they did to the Denver Post. @dallasnews.com refused the dishonest policies & the lack-of-truth model run by the Post‘a chief & managing editors, Alden loyalists Lee Ann Colacioppo & Matt Sebastian

The story on LandCo Equity Chairman Ray Marshall, Pam Mackey, Patrick Burke, Jeffrey Pagluica, Judge Barney Iuppa, Former DA Dan May, Amy Fitch, Robert Sexton, Randy Purvis & others requires major fact checking because it’s by Chris Osher who is known to fabricate information 1/

This is what integrity looks like. IMO, anyone who cares about journalism should take the buyout and look for another company to work with. The people who stay or decide to goto work for Alden don’t practice ethical journalism anymore, they are compromised & just taking paychecks.

damn that's crazy. hey what's all this?

DAILY NEWS ON THE WALL OF SHAME 🧵: What an ‘honor’ for @nydailynews.com! The Alden Global Capital-owned newspaper has been named one of NYC’s worst employers for union-busting and violating the law. Congrats to the Heath Freeman and management at @NYDailyNews documentedny.com/2025/09/03/c...

Dog days, Boulder Creek

Creative Commons has a new license for the start of the main stream AI age.

Have you been following the saga of the lonely hedge fund who keeps offering more money for the newspaper he wants — really wants — and it doesn't work? www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/alde... By @joshuabenton.com

I have one of the first Rayban Meta AI glasses and can say in no uncertain terms Zuckerberg’s AI is complete garbage. It’s just so bad. And it never improved. Now watch as he tries to recruit talent. Dont fear AI, fear the people who are trying to buy control of our lives through open technology.

Just gave a small donation. Folks in #Boulder need to step up or be taken advantage of by Axios and The Daily Camera.

New by me —> Alden Global Capital is big mad that @dallasnews.com won't offer itself up for ritual disembowelment and is huffing and puffing about the unfairness of it all. (FWIW, I still think the DMN is safe, since only one man's opinion matters.) www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/alde...

100F in #Boulder #cowx

Good on you #Dallas. You can read my investigation into what Alden Global Capital did to the Denver Post here: dembot.net/colorado-jou...

If you call me to talk about Alden Global Capital, I will not hold back. www.dallasobserver.com/news/vulture...

They sell signups and you can simply not subscribe or click the unsubscribe link. It’s a choice.

So.. officially, I'm the last Black staff columnist left in the Washington Post's opinion section.

Watched the Chicago Cubs beat the Boston Red Sox tonight at Wrigley Field. Ever wonder what the man behind the famous ballpark announcer voice looks like? Every stadium has their own.

“Let’s be honest: The real issue isn’t me—it’s you.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

Solidarity with the reporters, editors and photographers of the @nydnunion.bsky.social as they rallied for a fair contract and in support of my friend @cndelarosa.bsky.social's Council resolution demanding that Alden Global Capital negotiate a fair contract now.

Kura conveyor belt sushi opening in #Boulder next week near Apple and Trader Joe’s

Tour Dates: vfemmes.com

Although not unexpected, it’s still shocking to see this written down in black and white: the proposed elimination of virtually all NOAA research and the Cooperative Institutes, including all four Boulder labs.

The most innovative & effective use of AI in journalism that I’ve seen (and now regularly use for #Boulder #CoPolitics #coleg ) is Citizen Portal. Here is what it does demonstrated by example with how I use it 🧵👇

One reason I’m so pleased with the current state of case # 2025CV11 is because I now have on record the massive journalistic fraud of Christopher Osher & neither he nor anyone else refuted one fact. Same for Mitchell Byars who does not refute his horrible actions of journalistic fraud. #Boulder 1/

@jayrosen.bsky.social If “saving the election” is seen as a press mission, then so is this: when no other institution will act, the duty falls to journalists to confront the president over what may be the most dangerous war crime yet—bombing Iran.

Some people get into journalism because they’re skeptical of power, and others do so because they’re impressed by it. Moments like this are clarifying with respect to who’s who.

The @sandiegouniontribune.com, now owned by PE equity firm Alden, fired Hispanic editor after she wrote an Op Ed crticial of ICE,which it did not publish www.sandiegoville.com/2025/06/san-...

Major news in my consumer protection case 2025CV11. The judge dismissed the case but regarding Randall Smith and Heath Freeman personally, the case was dismissed without prejudice and I can refile a new, updated CCPA complaint against them to address any deficiencies. 1/