Anderson Valley Advertiser

The Anderson Valley Advertiser is a small but well known newspaper. Founded in 1955 and published by Bruce Anderson in Anderson Valley, California since 1984. Originally a local community based paper, The AVA's masthead features mottoes borrowed from the French Revolution:

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Newspaper - Anderson Valley - California - 1984 - French Revolution

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• Fanning the Flames of Discontent!
• Peace to the Cottages! War on the Palaces!
• All Happy - None Rich - None Poor

Various quotes are distributed through every issue of the paper. Examples include:

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• Be as radical as reality. - Lenin
• Newspapers should have no friends. - Joseph Pulitzer

The AVA a much lauded and lambasted voice of the common man against corporations and the landed gentry. With a prescient mixture of local, state and national politics, and anchored by what may be the most literate 3 pages of letters from readers in any paper in the world, the "Country Weekly That Tells It Like It Is", goes after all sides -- liberal, conservative, yuppie, hippie -- with equal elan.

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Contributors include:

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• Alexander Cockburn
• Jeffrey St. Clair

As of November 2004 the Anderson Valley Advertiser was sold to a former reporter for the paper. Bruce Anderson now lives in Eugene, Oregon, where he unsuccessfully tried to start a new paper called The AVA Oregon. "I'm out of money, and out of business," Anderson wrote in the Feb. 3, 2005 final issue.

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2004 - Eugene, Oregon

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