Anderson Valley Advertiser

The Anderson Valley Advertiser is a small but well-known weekly newspaper published in Anderson Valley, California. It was founded in 1955 as a local, community-based paper. The AVA's masthead features mottoes borrowed from the French Revolution:
Fanning the Flames of Discontent!
Peace to the Cottages! War on the Palaces!
All Happy - None Rich - None Poor

Various quotations are distributed through every issue of the paper. Examples include:
*"Be as radical as reality." - Lenin
*"Newspapers should have no friends." - Joseph Pulitzer

The AVA is a much lauded and lambasted voice of the common man against corporations and the landed gentry. With a prescient mixture of local, state and national politics, and anchored by what may be the most literate three pages of letters from readers in any paper in the world, the "Country Weekly That Tells It Like It Is" goes after all sides with equal elan.

Contributors include:
*Alexander Cockburn
*Jeffrey St. Clair

The newspaper was long identified with Bruce Anderson, who became its publisher in 1984. As of November 2004 the Anderson Valley Advertiser was sold to a former reporter for the paper. Bruce Anderson now lives in Eugene, Oregon, where he unsuccessfully tried to start a new paper called The AVA Oregon. "I'm out of money, and out of business," Anderson wrote in the Feb. 3, 2005 final issue.

External links

*Anderson Valley Advertiser
*The AVA Oregon
*"Liar Unlimited - Bruce Anderson exposed as a hoaxster" (this article contains biased and unfounded opinion, but is relevant