The Stalinpaltz BrainFog-Tranquilizer (the newspaper formerly known as The New Paltz Times)

Fortunately, I know no one involved with the publishing of this unfortunate excuse for a local newspaper. Why I hoped for its survival during the pandemic, though, had to do with the survival of enterprises in general and the jobs involved. But over time something has gone even more terribly wrong with it than was terribly wrong with it before. The worst informed people in New Paltz are the people charged with keeping the citizens thereof informed.

If you go by the activity of the paper's facebook page, you would think you had just arrived at a ghost town in the Mohave.

One of the longest standing idiosyncrasies of the paper is its acceptance of the role as a public relations arm of the many local governments. Its job is to tell you what those governments want you to hear and not to inquire further, much less report in an objective tone. The writing borders on mindslaughter, with writer, editor, and reader all victims.