Growth along Wasatch Front

[LDS Jock]

I came across this article from Deseret News detailing the growth of the Wasatch Front area. Thought some of you might find it interesting too.

http://www.desnews.com/misc/growth/lead.htm

[catzies]

1. I read the DesNews for years

But only the sports section.

[Sean Reynolds]

2. Same.

The DesNews is a horrible paper! :)

The Tribune gets o my nerves, but never as much as the DesNews.

GO JAZZ! ;-)

[porkrind]

3. Trib is now Mormon propaganda.

The Mormon church had to crush the voice of criticism by buying the Tribune. I guess buying is better than burning, though. Remember Mormon church founder Joseph Smith was eventually imprisoned after sending Danites to destroy the Nauvoo Expositor, a newspaper that was critical of him.

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Read about the Right-Wing "Master Plan": http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/sam/sam-contents.html

Have you read "War is a Racket"?: http://lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm

[Sean Reynolds]

4. Uh, the LDS Church doesn't own the Salt Lake Tribune.

I don't know where you got that. They're owned by some out of state business guy from Denver, who is NOT LDS.

[porkrind]

5. Mormon Church effectively owns it ... they now control it's content.

CNN: Salt Lake Tribune claims Mormon church tried to buy it
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/10/06/saltlake.newspapers.ap/

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) -- Managers of The Salt Lake Tribune, claiming the Mormon church has tried for three years to take control of their newspaper, have asked parent company AT&T to honor an agreement to sell the paper back to them.
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The newspaper ran a front-page story Thursday about a potential sale, three days after about 50 Tribune reporters and editors signed a petition seeking publication of "an article informing the public of the attempt by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to purchase majority control of the Newspaper Agency Corp."

News battle emerges in Utah
http://www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.Article?article_id=10070

Thanks to a petition to higher-ups from editorial staffers at the Salt Lake Tribune, a news story involving the paper itself reached the light of day.v
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Revelations that Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch called AT&T on behalf of the Mormon Church only added backroom intrigue to the story. Hatch chairs the Senate committee that deals with antitrust matters, and many assume that an attempted church monopoly of news in Salt Lake would come before Hatch’s committee.

To Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson, the continuation of a strong Salt Lake Tribune is important because the public needs a "major independent voice in this community," he told the Ogden Standard Examiner. The Mormon Church also owns Utah’s major television and radio stations.

Two-newspaper cities are increasingly rare in America. Salt Lake has had two dailies since 1870, when the Salt Lake Tribune began competing with the Mormon Church’s Deseret News, founded in 1850. The Tribune, says Wakely, was founded in part to oppose the conservative agenda of the Mormon Church.

MORMON CHURCH BEGINS MOVE TO CONTROL SECULAR RIVAL
http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/utah8.htm

The Deseret News, a publication operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, won control on Tuesday of the corporate agency which handles distribution, business affairs and other matters for the Mormon newspaper and its secular rival, the Salt Lake Tribune. The move is the latest development in what many charge is a blatant effort by the LDS church to dictate control over content published by the Tribune, which in recent years has been critical of Mormon policies and history.

Tuesday's sale of the Tribune for $200 million from a subsidiary of AT&T to MediaNews Group of Denver puts in force a series of amendments in the Joint Operating Agreement which has governed relations between the Tribune and the Deseret News since 1952. The arrangement, seen as a crucial element in the "Great Accommodation" between Utah's non-Mormons and the state's powerful LDS establishment, allowed the two papers to combine redundant operations, such as printing, accounting and other business procedures, and still allow them to retain editorial independence.
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Behind the scenes, though, the Deseret News and officials of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have been maneuvering to amend the Joint Operating Agreement. Critics say this came in response to the Tribune's critical investigative coverage of the Mormon church, which recently has included exposes on LDS intrigue in the purchase of a downtown Salt Lake City public street which was sold to the church; investigations into polygamy; and historical retrospectives on incidents the church would like to ignore, such as the bloody Mountain Meadow Massacre where travelers on their way to California were slaughtered by LDS thugs.
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Other curious facts continue to emerge in this case. One involves the negotiated detente between MediaNews and its boss, Dean Singleton, AT&T and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Singleton is paying $200 for the Tribune, substantially less than the $243 million that was offered to AT&T by investment banker Goldman Sachs.

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Read about the Right-Wing "Master Plan": http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/sam/sam-contents.html

Have you read "War is a Racket"?: http://lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm

[Sean Reynolds]

6. I don't see ANYWHERE in those articles

I don't see ANYWHERE in those articles where it says the LDS Church effectively owns it. Have you read the Tribune? The Tribune has a pretty liberal slant (most of its editorial page slams Bush); whether you feel it's owned by the Church is your right. The facts do NOT agree with you.