and now here’s a, a,… a, spokes-douche for the company to shed some better light on the situation with some important insights:

“Unfortunately, due to a meek entrepreneurial spirit, there will be some Tow Truck operator’s who will not take this opportunity to grow their business. AAA members needn’t worry though, they won’t notice any difference in Service or response time except for the better, as a result of this viable upgrade.

Weeding out these weakling businesses is a natural part of the selection process and is a sign that the Capitalist Process is Functioning Healthily.
Will more people be unemployed? Will JObs will be lost?
You betcha they will..
but you know what??…

AAA PROFIT$
and that benefits ALL of us!

Now get out there and Work , and work, and work
and if you want an hour for lunch, just take a day off and don’t come back because we got plenty of guys that want to work if you don’t want to.”

Now let us take a moment to thank our sponsors..

Huh?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTqSp6r1QP8

For those in charge, their world revolves around Walnut Creek. They thin San Joaquin County is in the bay area. They have no clear view of our community, or much of anything outside Walnut Creek.

Is anyone really surprised about all of this? This has been coming since they acquired the Mercury, which, by the way, once had a Fremont bureau with 12 reporters and an editor. Today, we have a vestige of a newspaper with one reporter trying to do his job.

Thanks for nothing, BANG. Or is it more properly, BAAG (Bay Area Advertising Group.)

Tony’s having trouble with the stresses of current events. How would you react if your messiah turned out to be a Muppet?

If these aren’t quotes delivered straight from corporate headquarters intended to look natural when planted here by “average Fremont citizens”, then government mind-control has advanced far-beyond anything Orwell ever dreamed up.

Sorry guys, but as open-minded as I am, I don’t think the views expressed by you three above are explained by either of the above options.
Except in maybe Marty’s case.

No those probably are your “thoughts” on the matter of how this “re-branding” will affect our newspaper’s local coverage of the Tri-Cities.

Remember back in 2000 when all sorts of smart people were adamantly informing smart, informed people that there wasn’t any difference between Bush and Gore? That Ralph Nader was the only real option, it was obvious, and if you thought so (and you did) but still voted for Gore, it was because you were more afraid of Gore losing than Bush winning and would only enable the real problem with our government -the two-party system- to be more bolstered, entrenched and even more impossible to get rid of.

Boy, that was some far-out thinking huh? That there would be little difference between a Gore presidency and …

…..and if you think that the Argus is dead and can’t get no deader in November, or that there won’t be any noticeable difference, or have delusions of an improved paper that will make you even more informed than you are now,
YOU
ARE
not just WRONG,
you’re Right! -with the TIMES a piece of media,
keeping Up! with Chloe, and Snookie and Regis you’re Dancin’ with the Stars! downtown in the (if they can decide ) in the midst of (where) it (might be) “Buy a Hat!” -find out how in section B
The Cal SLaves beat Stanford’s Team of House N—rs! Paydirt for Both schools sports programs. Groundbreaking commences on the University’s $900 million dollar “Hall of Freedom Hall” a 780 acre administrative entertainment suite complex dedicated to higher learning and the pursuit of a better future for all. A future that is exclusively planned exclusive and free, of freedom, and free of undesirables -in Sports

Heyyy! HO! Crackers Win again! Over here. the news. ?
EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!

YOU are the PROBLEM.

Don’t start askin’ questions Artz! That’s a good boy.
Do your duty Artz.

Do your Duty.

When I said the Argus is dead to me, it’s because I don’t even know what it is anymore. It’s essentially the Argus section of “Inside Bay Area”, hard to pin exactly whose news you are reading, let alone what exactly the product is and who is selling it to you. Though the same can be said for most online news (yahoo, aol, Huff, Reuters, AP, Breitbart).

I would think with consolidated regional reporting, advertising and production that would leave room for local sections to be expanded, but apparently not. In that context this is very disappointing. Any change that reduces your personal involvement in reporting Fremont is a very bad thing.