Nothing is more clear than that - for the second blatant time - when the publisher of The Times Media Group just happens to be the featured mystery guest on taxpayer-funded and city-owned Mesa Channel 11 in a 5-minute segment of Mesa Morning Live uploaded on February 19th.
The "Guest Host": John Giles
Mesa Morning Live Mystery Guest: Steve Strickbine
Right away there is no mystery about what's going on here - just in time before an upcoming election in their re-invented and newly-minted version of the original Mesa Tribune.
> Publisher Strickbine needs advertising dollars
> Mayor Giles wants a political pay-off
The distribution area target for their pulp fiction rag is northeast Mesa with 40,000 copies dropped in driveways.
Northeast Mesa is the political stronghold for Giles who has declared his intention to gain a second term in-office, realizing he faces opposition in what could be a closely-contested campaign and has to knock-off any strong challengers in the Primary Election.
Hizzoner was on The Cover-Boy on the Front Page >
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13 February 2020
Hizzoner John Giles: Cover-Boy
That's right! He's perfect that for job as "Cover-Boy" O Lordy!
The Times Media Group Publisher Steve Strickbine featured an image of himself flashing a hard copy (the pulp-fiction print edition) of Mesa Mayor Jiving John Giles in full frontal exposure on the front page for a re-launch of the now corporate-owned namesake The Mesa Tribune - in the northeast Mesa edition.
WHOA! Could there ever be a more telling image of the unholy alliance between the mayor and spoon-fed media to deliver only the good news???
. . using the mayor as click-bait
"for the many people still want to hold a thick newspaper in their hands come Sunday. . ."
Let's go there and ask: THICK WITH WHAT????
The Times Media Group Publisher Steve Strickbine featured an image of himself flashing a hard copy (the pulp-fiction print edition) of Mesa Mayor Jiving John Giles in full frontal exposure on the front page for a re-launch of the now corporate-owned namesake The Mesa Tribune - in the northeast Mesa edition.
WHOA! Could there ever be a more telling image of the unholy alliance between the mayor and spoon-fed media to deliver only the good news???
. . using the mayor as click-bait
"for the many people still want to hold a thick newspaper in their hands come Sunday. . ."
Let's go there and ask: THICK WITH WHAT????
