Time for a long time-out from visiting the ArlNow news blog? About time.
ArlNow's Owner and Publisher, Scott Brodbeck, is a long-time New Urbanist Democrat who's shared the goal, since he started ArlNow 11 years ago, of complete mixed-use infill gentrification / millennialization of the County with Arlington's Urbanist Democrats.
Scott no longer lives in historic Fairlington but quietly purchased a 1950's single family home in Country Club Hills a couple years ago, nowhere near the "vibrant" mixed use millennialization he and his fellow Urbanist media publishers promote and profit from, via features, ads, infomercials, weekly columns, and comments that appear under most features, mostly written by Urbanist Democrats who typically trash anyone who doesn't go along with one-party govenment dedicated to infill gentrification redevelopment.
It would be one thing if ArlNow were just another propaganda channel for revitalization through gentrification. But Scott (who has complete control over what is published on ArlNow) also uses his favored commenters as surrogates. Comments appearing on ArlNow are increasingly false and malicious without regard to truth and are directed against anyone who doesn't go along with the Urbanist-Democrat agenda.
Consequently it's time for anyone who's for increased democracy in Arlington to give ArlNow a long time-out. Alternative? Arlington Patch provides almost the same news content as ArlNow but without the overt biases and comments that verge on hate speech. Terri from 22205
