Whatever that thing is, it's not a newspaper

Talking about the Kingston Freeman. The excuse there for years, utterly invalid, is that there's no money to put out a real newspaper.

The most important element of a free press is that it is independent of the government. It is not a vessel through which the government speaks without interruption. Yes, the government gets coverage, but a free press is not the government's public relations firm. The Freeman is run by two men who have zero interest in actually covering the news, locally or nationally. The local news coverage is so superficial as to be not worth the time to provide it. The national and state news coverage consists of running stories from the AP wire that most readily confirm the prejudices of the two editors.

It's a garbage publication.