Hey Yupette,
For several years we've endured the antics of the ArlNow News blog, and its Owner and Publisher, Scott Brodbeck.
Who is Scott Brodbeck? Another Rust Belt refugee (from Pittsburgh) who's growing rich imposing "Smart Growth" urbanization aka "Millennialization" on suburban Arlington. Like Jay Fisette, Chris Zimmerman, Mary Hynes, Barbara Favola, and a laundry list of others, present and past
Like the other local media e.g., WJLA just across Wilson Boulevard from ArlNow's corporate headquarters, ArlNow thrives on hype, hysteria, and hedonism. ArlNow is heavily censored and about 80% of those who are allowed to post comments are Chamber of Commerce and Smart Growth boosters, like Scott. Some of them work for developers and the County's pro-urbanization bureaucracy. Don't like Smart Growth? Don't waste your time posting on ArlNow.
Like WJLA and the other local television stations, ArlNow features "scare the soccer Moms" hysteria. Motor vehicles are routinely demonized, 'cause the County's priority is to work towards a total ban on motor vehicles in favor of bicycles. But Scott's free range urban hipster buds can do anything they want on and off their bicycles. Just don't get caught or Scott will put your photo on ArlNow.
Implications? Consequences? What are they? The County's gonna become an expensive urban mess, so why not make as much money as Scott can helping it happen, running County-supplied press releases as news and packing as much advertising, sponsored content, infomercials, and other paid advertising masquerading as news into ArlNow?
Who's to blame when bad things occur, like flash floods because of massive in-fill urbanization? Audrey Clement, of course. Never County Government, developers, Smart Growth America, or anyone else who's actually responsible.
Thanks for this blog and going after the jerks who are destroying Arlington as a livable county.
J.L., Westover
35 comments:
Scott is competing for Urban Hipster of the Year from a formerly-affordable $400,000 condo in historic Fairlington designed to be workforce housing.
ArlNow is yet another gear in the political machine that micro-manages our lives.
Speaking of gears in Arlington's Democratic Machine, McCaffrey is running a series of features about the CivFed on Inside Nova.
Audrey Clement had my vote last year and will have my vote again in November.
Like the owners of the Amazon Post and Inside Nova-Sun Gazette, Scott Brodbeck does not live near the in-fill urbanization redevelopment he promotes.
Scott also gets to walk across Quaker Lane and King Street to use essential community infrastructure in Alexandria he's helping his advertisers bulldoze out of Arlington.
Like his Smart Growth VIP neighbor, Libby Garvey.
Local media, whether ArlNow or WJLA, are so greedy for ad revenue they won't feature and constantly disparage any criticism of the status quo.
ArlNow was a clone of WJLA when Allbritton owned WJLA.
Notice there is never a photo on ArlNow of a walker or runner hit by a bikester on a sidewalk or trail. Happens every week.
Scott is a cheerleader in Arlington's war on motor vehicles
Scott Brodbeck shills for the Smart Growth Millennialization of Arlington like the Wash Post shills for Amazon.
Arlingtonton's Millennials are worthless a-holes. It's telling that local media VIPs put as much distrance between themselves and the bros an hoes as they can afford.
"Fake News"? Lots of it on ArlNow.
ArlNow = All Fake News All the Time
Scott's models for ArlNow were 'Wayne's World' and 'White Men Can't Jump' which are like 25 yars old. Mike Myers and Woody Harrelson are pushing 60. Duh. The Urban Hipster thing is really getting lame.
Scott's 33 years old and still running with the 23 yr old bros in Clarendon.
Mike Myers and Woody Harrelson are First Gen Yups who became icons for Second Gen Yups like Scott Brodbeck.
Who, over the last 5 years, has become an icon for the Third Generation Yups aka Millennials.
Look at Audrey Clement's tiff with ArlNow commenters on August 14th. It's obvious that what ArlNow is all about is social and economic resegregation through gentrification.
ArlNow censors any individual criticism of anyone who is actually responsible for the expensive mess the County has become.
I am starting to really hate the Media. Elitist jerks who want to completely control us. ArlNow is right down there with the Amazon Post. How did the Post get to the point that you have to peel off stick-on ads before you can read the front page headlines?
NBC paid Donald Trump more than $200 million over 10 years for his starring role on "The Apprentice". How much did NBC earn from "The Apprentice"?
Don't waste your time trying to post a comment with the name of anyone actually responsible for anything in Arlington County on ArlNow.
Amazon Post censors anything negative about Amazon and Jeff Bezos.
Prediction: Scott Brodbeck will be living in a House and Gardens / Southern Living home in a neighborhood like Ashton Heights in 10 years, nowhere near the B-R zoo he helped create.
ArlNow is so bad it won't sponsor a multi-modal traffic safety video but will help the helicopter cops who protect the millennial brats from each other take their clown cop video viral.
All Brodbeck et. al. are concerned about is making as much money as possible by hyping the status quo, meaning Smart Growth, one-party government, millennialization, etc.
Media Elite also belong to the top 1% (3.3 million) who control everything and own almost everything. Media Elite profits from keeping us ignorant.
Think it's co-incidental that Democrats have controlled Arlington for 35 years?
Maybe Scott will buy Jay's and Rob's Ashton Heights home when Jay and Rob retire to the Trump Coast.
Scott is an entrepreneur and visionary. Arlington needs people like him.
Scott is another greedy owner and publisher, like Jeff Bezos and Rich Connor (who owns the Sun Gazette and Inside Nova). Oh, he also likes to chase fire trucks as a hobby. Arlington needs fewer people like Scott and more people with the guts to fight the PlutoCrat Regime and win...read the comments about essential small businesses being forced out of the County.
Scott is a hero to the bros and hoes.....'cause he's an honorary bro.
Scott's another so-called "Journalist" who's laughing all the way to the bank helping the likes of Jay Fisette and Erik Gutshall totally urbanize our neighborhoods.
Scott is a Rich Connor wannabe -- Google "Richard L. Connor". Like Inside Nova, ArlNow is 90% advertising.
No, Scott is a Nick Benton wannabe.
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