How To Disarm a Wingnut and Other Tidbits

Ambrose Bierce once said, "If you leave your mind sufficiently open, sooner or later, somebody will come along and through some garbage in it."
If your not familiar with local online suburban newspapers, you should check them out.  There's an abundance of these Internet-based rags around the Country. Many are owned by large National Parent organizations like the Journal Register Company. These community "newspapers" mix local high school sports news with a late breaking story about the township's upcoming run-off race for dog catcher. The Editorial page, however, usually carries a mix of Op-Eds covering local and National issues.  The contributing writers are generally a blend of local staff and News Service commentators supplied through the parent company.  I'd estimate that the vast majority of both local and National Op-Ed contributors are spewing Wingnut garbage by the ton.  Most of  the local operators have tiny viewerships, and like their big brothers, many have been forced to shut down. But I believe this niche news market could be successfully reinvented. Many are shedding a prior debt service inherited from their paper-based past (Journal Register itself recently emerged from Chapter 11). IMO, Progressives have unnecessarily ceded this market to the Right,.