The Reality of Press Behavior In Keeping Maud in Power
Some time ago a reporter named Jerry Schanke had a little run in here at HistoricVienna.com. No big deal you say? Yes, no big deal relatively speaking at the time Schanke submitted his one and only post. Now of course when he submitted his post he did so with a certain IP address, his internet phone number if you will.
And that story would have ended there if not for this post today from "Dogfacepotatobrain". You probably already guessed? Yup, same IP address as good ole Jerry Schanke of the Times Newspapers. Dogfacepotatobrain has also posted here, here, here, here, here, and here. Notice how the posts always occur around a Times Newspaper story?
We guess occasionally the casual and ill-informed reader of this blog will think that we stretch the connection between the Maud Machine and local papers. It's not a connection ladies and gentleman it's an incestuous union! End result of a paper on Maud's machine calling list? She wins cause nothing changes. At least it is a little clearer now as to who helps the old bag hold onto power.
Arthur W. Arundel (Age: 78; The Plains; Net Worth: 100 million) is the founder, chairman and publisher of Times Community Newspapers, a Virginia-based newspaper and digital media group that through acquisitions has grown to become one of the largest in the state. Group publishes 20 newspapers with a combined circulation of 271,000. Recent acquisitions include The Fauquier Citizen and The Culpeper Citizen. Arundel’s son, Peter Arundel, succeeded his father as CEO and heads company operations. Peter has led group’s expansion and started company’s online editions.
Is the behavior (read: manipulation by the press under fake names) uncovered the basis of how that Arundel family fortune was made?
Comments
Is this man a Vienna resident?
Posted by: vienna mommy | January 18, 2008 02:56 PM
Just to note: the majority of IP addresses are assigned via DHCP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Host_Configuration_Protocol), in which you get an IP address temporarily assigned to you when you log in, either from your ISP (usually how it works at home) or from the LAN you are on (at business places).
Assuming its the latter and the IP addresses are not manually allocated based ont he MAC address (which tends to be unusual), it would indicate that someone from the Times-Community network logged in, but not necessarily the same person.
That said, it's still suspicious.
Posted by: You're kidding me, right? | January 21, 2008 12:33 PM
Thanks for the IP education. Not needed, but the effort was swell. We understand it might not be Jerry himself, but worst case it is one of his reporter cohorts sitting next to him...which is defacto Jerry. The Maud political grease extends far and wide.
Posted by: HV | January 21, 2008 01:06 PM
What makes me sick is how much the local press kisses up to the Vienna officials. None of the reporting is indepth, they don't ask the hard questions, and rarely ask for stats. WTH?
Posted by: Separation of the press, WTH | January 24, 2008 03:45 AM