Just a quick thought on the No Kings rally and how it was covered in Louisville. It was obvious that the protest against the Orange Menace and his MAGAt cronies in Congress was a success. This from Louisville Public Media:

From Paducah to Prestonsburg, Kentuckians gathered at No Kings protests on Saturday to voice dissatisfaction with U.S. President Donald Trump through peaceful demonstration.

Chanting protesters, many carrying hand-crafted signs, lined the streets and sidewalks of downtown Louisville, Lexington, Bowling Green and Paducah on Saturday, as well as in smaller communities across the state. They protested Trump administration policies impacting immigration, health care, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights and much more.

This marked the second nationwide day of No Kings protests, with the first in June also bringing out thousands across Kentucky.

The photo at the top of this shows the size of the gathering at the Belvedere. So why did the local TV station, WHAS, use this photo, also taken at the Belvedere, to illustrate the rally?

That’s not thousands of people. That’s not hundreds of people. That’s not dozens of people. This is obviously a situation where they sent a photographer out well before the rally took place and never bothered to update the image to deal with reality.

Which makes me wonder, who owns this station?

WHAS-TV (channel 11) is a television station in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, affiliated with ABC. Owned by Tegna Inc., the station maintains studios on West Chestnut Street in Downtown Louisville.

So, what’s Tegna Inc.?

Tegna Inc. (stylized in all caps as TEGNA) is an American publicly traded broadcast, digital media and marketing services company headquartered in Tysons, Virginia.^[4][5] It was created on June 29, 2015, when the Gannett Company split into two publicly traded companies. Tegna comprised the more profitable broadcast television and digital media divisions of the old Gannett, while Gannett’s publishing interests were spun off as a “new” company that retained the Gannett name. Tegna owns or operates 68 television stations in 54 markets, and holds properties in digital media.

Tegna was Gannett. Gannett owns the CJ. Now it makes sense.

UPDATE: Just a quick realization that if you rearrange the letters and drop the duplicates, Tegna turns into Ganet. Is that how they came up with the name?