(See update to this post here)
How subtle is power abuse? For that matter, how corrosive can it be when it seeps into the lifeblood of a community? A region? How about the ability to take on a life of its own when it has the power of media in its back pocket?
Powerful enough to sway policies? Develop a loyal 'following' of possibly weaker individuals?
Strong enough to last for say...oh, '40 years' or more? Tenacious enough to insist on using the same (or similar) methods over and over again to get what it thinks it wants from others?
'Shame, shame' on 'anyone' who would resort to such tactics as to condemn a revered institution such as CMC. (See related story and public comments here)
SandBox thanks CMC and our Trustees for bringing upstanding leadership, so many wonderful programs and excellent stewardship of public trust to our mountain communities. You are appreciated.
John Colson:
"“They did hear loud and clear, do not do it at this location,” said Marianne Quigley Ackerman. Her father was among the ranchers who donated land for the college...." (Read more? Click title)
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
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Oh, good. Maybe the stellar Marianne Ackerman knows other donors that have ranching equipment and they can all go up and have a work month cleaning up that noxious weed patch. They've got 6 months to do it in now. Our beloved CMC has had to put all their money into educating our kids and can't afford to. Imagine that. Shame on Marianne Ackerman for slurring her family name.
now we all know how those darn pesky tax write-offs come back to haunt you. always wanting maintenance of some kind. man, it's really rough to be above board in everything you say and do, isn't it? maybe she not only knows a rancher living nearby that can help out sourcegas. maybe she knows somebody in the real estate industry that can help get some land in place. those trustees are really too busy looking after our kids that don't get the ivy league school experience.
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Better than a weed patch cleanup month, maybe Marianne knows a regional non-profit board of directors that is sporting a very long term healthy bottom line who can donate the funds to put the compressor station somewhere else.
Alway fascinating to read the pious indignation of a town gossip in the local newspaper.
Thank you, CMC. You do so much for our kids, our communities throughout Colorado and our lives.
With the exception of the chamber's, for over 25 years in this town every Welcome to Glenwood Springs kit has held a business and social advice piece whispered to newcomers. "Don't mess with the Mariannes and you'll be fine". The majority of this town, mostly the women, have heard that advice at one time or another.
Here's a new whisper and memo that Marianne Ackerman must not be paying attention to: You've become obsolete and your power is ultimately completely insignificant.
Shame on you for publicly berating one of our most revered institutions. Hope you hear others voices "loud and clear" now.
Even for Ackerman this is over the top. CMC does not deserve anything but a helping hand. They certainly don't deserve Marianne throwing her weight around. Or the local paper encouraging her by giving her what she reveres. 15 min. of spotlight time. How about 6 months passing, nowhere else to go and SourceGas going ahead anyway? As far as Nieslanik goes, where have those kids been for all these years while that land sits there, dry as a bone and useless? Shame is warranted but it is shame on Marianne, not CMC.
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_20290056/sourcegas-compressor-proposal-hold-six-months
Chalk up another mass spread bully pulpit for Ackerman's portfolio. That back pocket crony newspaper sure loves to spread around the spotlight.
what do we expect when the only new story in the PI today is our stellar reputed newspaper pilfering the trash sleaze piece of Rick Carroll on Pederson getting a DUI.
This is what the Post Independent is. What Swift publications do. They stroke the backs of the money like GSCRA and the tourism contract and the Skico and then prostitute all of their ethics and integrity to keep those ad accounts. In the spare time reporters like Carroll and Colson and sewage writers like Stone and Cleverly stroke their egos every time the Aspen Daily bests them with truth or the folks call them out in commentary.
Pathetic. Pathetic.
I'm sending out a shout out to the DEA and FBI today. Welcome to the valley. Glad you're here. Stay the course.
That's not all it is, fu.
This dynamic going on in this story, the post of Nanny's and this thread is the biggest reason it has taken 40 years to get public corruption in this valley out into the open so the whole world can see it. With any luck maybe that exposure will break the barriers of power and knock a big enough hole in them to weaken all that power.
Looks like Marianne Ackerman is getting her biggest wish of full-time glory in the public eyes. All that gossip over the years has just maybe paid off finally. She can now say she was responsible for showing the power of crony media in this valley.
Thank you to former officer Pederson for all of your service because knowing Nanny I seriously doubt she's going to put that sleaze piece of Carroll's up today. If I remember right you were one of the team that also went after Michael Cleverly for alleged federal witness tampering. My house will remember that work and credit you along with the others on your former team with the new hole in this valley's power wall.
That is correct, 'hotmama'.
Rick Carroll and the viral marketing, SEO submitting practices of the PI will get zero assistance from SandBox on the Pederson stalkarazzi piece.
The two primary reasons are:
1. 'Nanny' takes strong issue with Carroll's implying that our agencies, our district attorney and anyone else involved "covered up" the news of his problem. They most certainly did not and it has been spoken of since it happened. Which brings me to point #2.
2. There is a standard of ethics when one is in a position of trust. Which a company like Swift and Colorado Mountain News Media is. Tomorrow is the first of April. This story happened a few months ago. When you take only parts of a story, long after the fact, and then spin disinformation and inflammatory content while you identify yourself as a journalistic publication; that is nothing but tabloid sleaze. The fact that Carroll's timing is so obviously aimed at his angst at being scooped by the Daily over the past week is degrading not only to him and his employer but to our communities the Times serves.
SandBox Commentators states in all that we do that our genre is spin. We poke, push, prod and dig in our own version of 'spin doctor' marketing. I suggest maybe Carroll look for a similar line of work if he cannot hold to the standard and ethics of his profession because what he just attempted to do with the Pederson story is not news.
With that said:
This has been a very good thread and as your moderator I have no problem in any way with your truthful and insightful content.
I also think the point has been made. Since there is nothing anywhere, in all of her decades of advertising and mountains of PR in all kinds of media that shows me that Marianne Ackerman has ever been made by her peers to take a good, hard and long look at her habits and herself in the mirror; you've done such a good job of negating the damage she has done here, I think it is enough.
Your example just made may very well be part of the turning tide in the area. Who knew?
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