The Small-Town Press

“While his editorials lean left, he works hard to report the news straight. But in an America of competing visions, some here say he has taken sides.

“Nowhere in the Monitor-News, for example, will you find reports that local people are dying because they’ve been inoculated.

“‘There are no alternative facts,’ Anfinson says. ‘There is just the truth.’”

—Reed Anfinson, publisher, editor, photographer and reporter for the Swift County (Minn.) Monitor-News, Tim Sullivan, “In one small prairie town, two warring visions of America,” The Associated Press, Jan. 27, 2022.

 

• Editorial Comment: Ah, the quaint small-town press. . . .

 

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