I'm speaking, as in the past, about the Gainesville, Texas, paper.
State Rep. Drew Springer was just re-elected, and as is tradition in a banana republic state with a legislature that meets just every other year, Drew, along with other Legiscritters, filed a bunch of bills on the first day of filing, a week after the election.
The Gainesville (formerly daily) Register saw fit to put that on the front page.
At a weekly, in a smaller community, I MIGHT have put that BELOW THE FOLD on the front page.
In a normal election year.
I NEVER would have stripped that across the top on all six columns as the lead story.
Not in a normal year and certainly not this year.
This year being different as in Springer is in a runoff special election for a state senate seat. And, just about every one of the bills he filed was a pander against claims by his opponent, Shelley Luther, that he's not a "real conservative."
In short, the Register gave him a shitload of free advertising.
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