UPDATE Sept. 25: Two of the Gazette’s four ads that stopped running Sunday, September 22, are “active” again, as of Tuesday, Sept. 24. One “active” ad states that a “Venezuelan gang used violence to seize an Aurora apartment complex.” This ad had disappeared from the Denver Gazette’s ad library on Facebook on Sunday. It’s now back in the library. Another ad, which quotes Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman calling the gang situation a “nightmare,” is labeled “active” on in the library today after being “inactive” on Sunday. Two other ads (“gangs taking over two Aurora apartment complexes” and “councilwoman promotes claims of Venezuelan gang takeover”) that became “inactive” on Sunday remain inactive today. Below you can see screenshots (taken Sunday) of the ads labeled as “inactive.” You can also see a screenshot (taken today) of the Coffman “nightmare” ad labeled “active” — as well as a screenshot taken today of the ad (“Venezuelan gang used violence to seize an Aurora apartment complex.”) that disappeared on Sunday but has now returned.
Vince Bzdek
Phil Anschutz-Owned Newspaper Markets Itself As the New Rocky Mountain News; Not True, Say Observers
As she passed by a table in front of a King Soopers on East 13th Avenue in Denver on Saturday, Ellen Dumm was surprised to hear a man ask her if she wanted to subscribe to the “new Rocky Mountain News.”
Spiked: A Conservative ‘Shadow’ Hangs Over Colorado Newspapers Owned by GOP Billionaire Phil Anschutz
Vince Bzdek, the editor of the Colorado Springs Gazette, had already forced Megan Schrader to lower her ethical bar — as a journalist — well below her comfort level.
Conservative CO News Outlet Stops Publishing Articles from a Conservative News Service
Colorado Politics, a digital and print news outlet with a conservative editorial page, has stopped republishing articles from Center Square, a conservative news service that claims to be competing with the Associated Press and other newswires.
News Weekly Celebrates Expansion to Denver
Former Colorado Republican Senate President Bill Cadman served as master of ceremonies at a happy hour Thursday to celebrate the expansion to Denver of Colorado Politics, a weekly print and online political publication.