The Riverfront Times is described in their Twitter bio as “St. Louis’ only alternative newspaper,” and it’s clear that somebody there doesn’t care for Dana Loesch, who signed a three-year deal with Radio America:
On behalf of St. Louis, we’d like to offer our sincerest apologies to all those poor folks out there that will soon be forced to know Dana Loesch exists. https://t.co/d1sf2PnhFN
— Riverfront Times (@RiverfrontTimes) April 8, 2021
That caught the eye of Loesch, who immediately made it awkward for the Times:
Probably should of thought of that before you put me on your cover and then wrote humble brags about how other publications gave you attention for putting me on your cover, Karen https://t.co/zlkCJmS12w pic.twitter.com/cJIEcPGzv5
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) April 9, 2021
Lolol forgot, they gave me awards, too.
Good job owning yourselves while trying to “oWn tHe COns,” ya morons pic.twitter.com/o8iUPNRUcx— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) April 9, 2021
LOL.
Chris Loesch and others also had some reality checks for the paper:
A smart editorial staff would have written:
“While we may not always agree it’s great to see a home grown St. Louis personality make good on the @RiverfrontTimes observation we made on our cover story of @DLoesch in 2010 and also prove worthy of our Best Of writing award.” https://t.co/O0El0yXXBh pic.twitter.com/U1iN0u53Km— Chris Loesch (@ChrisLoesch) April 10, 2021
You guys literally gave her an award for her great work. pic.twitter.com/UJqCHOWlel
— Code of Vets ™ (@codeofvets) April 10, 2021
Journalism: a story in three parts.
Local St. Louis paper Riverfront Times recognizes local columnist @dloesch with award. pic.twitter.com/94lP3WREQ6
— Virginia Kruta (@VAKruta) April 10, 2021
Media’s gonna media, whether it’s “alternative” or mainstream.
Dana is fantastic!
— Carol Roth (@caroljsroth) April 10, 2021
She’s great. Who are you?
— Okay. (@corrcomm) April 10, 2021
Oh, and speaking of that:
Ahh yes, ragging on someone much more popular than you to get hate clicks and keep the lights on at the Riverfront Times. No one should click on this stupid piece.
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) April 10, 2021
No need to — it’s everything you’d imagine.
What a joke. She won awards from you. @DLoesch is great. cc: @ChrisLoesch
— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) April 10, 2021
It’s a little strange for them to try and make this flex.
— Chris Loesch (@ChrisLoesch) April 10, 2021
As most newspapers, even local ones, are left leaning these days and failing…pretty bold business strategy right here! Lordy https://t.co/5hqYk8mjqu
— Matt (@mattgoldenstein) April 10, 2021
The self-inflicted slow death of “journalism” continues unabated.
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