Drew
@andrewbaron.bsky.social
This account is one small voice for exposing what Alden Global Capital is doing to local journalism. See my investigation at https://dembot.net/colorado-journalism-culture-shift/ Me: Arts & internet culture. Portfolio → https://drewbaron.com
Corey Hutchins opens 2026 digging deeper into a one-sided take on his Colorado media friends & colleagues. By elevating the same tired figures who regularly set aside accountability, including Vince Bzdek & Steve Zansberg, he does not examine but reinforces distrust in media. Let’s take a look.
January 3, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Corey Hutchins opens 2026 digging deeper into a one-sided take on his Colorado media friends & colleagues. By elevating the same tired figures who regularly set aside accountability, including Vince Bzdek & Steve Zansberg, he does not examine but reinforces distrust in media. Let’s take a look.
Trump:
"If Iran shots [SIC] and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue….We are locked and loaded and ready to go. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
Fragile trigger.
"If Iran shots [SIC] and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue….We are locked and loaded and ready to go. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
Fragile trigger.
January 2, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Trump:
"If Iran shots [SIC] and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue….We are locked and loaded and ready to go. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
Fragile trigger.
"If Iran shots [SIC] and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue….We are locked and loaded and ready to go. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
Fragile trigger.
Elon Musk had his algorithm show the Nick Shirley videos to pretty much everyone who visited the platform, boasting over 100 million views. This example of a large silo where everyone sees the same thing, including disinformation, is going to be super intense during the next election.
January 2, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Elon Musk had his algorithm show the Nick Shirley videos to pretty much everyone who visited the platform, boasting over 100 million views. This example of a large silo where everyone sees the same thing, including disinformation, is going to be super intense during the next election.
Nick Shirley giving citizen journalism a bad name.
December 31, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Nick Shirley giving citizen journalism a bad name.
TIL: It’s astounding Steve Zansberg threatens legal filings before identifying any factual or legal basis. This bad-faith use of law prioritizes procedural tactics over truth & raises concerns about misuse of legal processes by his clients, including Alden Global Capital & unfortunately, @npr.org
December 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
TIL: It’s astounding Steve Zansberg threatens legal filings before identifying any factual or legal basis. This bad-faith use of law prioritizes procedural tactics over truth & raises concerns about misuse of legal processes by his clients, including Alden Global Capital & unfortunately, @npr.org
In Colorado, the bad news for media tends to get scrapped…thrown to the editing floor, so that you can have some good news for your pleasure this holiday season.
December 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
In Colorado, the bad news for media tends to get scrapped…thrown to the editing floor, so that you can have some good news for your pleasure this holiday season.
Media in 2025
Gallup: Trust in newspapers, TV and radio is at an all time low, just 28%. Republicans' confidence in media to report news "fully, accurately and fairly" is now at just 8% 1/
#coleg #copolitics #Boulder #Denver
Gallup: Trust in newspapers, TV and radio is at an all time low, just 28%. Republicans' confidence in media to report news "fully, accurately and fairly" is now at just 8% 1/
#coleg #copolitics #Boulder #Denver
Trust in Media at New Low of 28% in U.S.
Americans' trust in newspapers, television and radio to report the news fully, accurately and fairly is at a new low of 28%.
news.gallup.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Media in 2025
Gallup: Trust in newspapers, TV and radio is at an all time low, just 28%. Republicans' confidence in media to report news "fully, accurately and fairly" is now at just 8% 1/
#coleg #copolitics #Boulder #Denver
Gallup: Trust in newspapers, TV and radio is at an all time low, just 28%. Republicans' confidence in media to report news "fully, accurately and fairly" is now at just 8% 1/
#coleg #copolitics #Boulder #Denver
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The early web was driven by curiosity & openness, not monetization.
Audrey Witters reflects on that era, using her now-famous animated alien GIF as an example of how playful, freely-shared work helped shape digital culture & why preserving it matters.
Learn more ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/12/22/a...
Audrey Witters reflects on that era, using her now-famous animated alien GIF as an example of how playful, freely-shared work helped shape digital culture & why preserving it matters.
Learn more ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/12/22/a...
December 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The early web was driven by curiosity & openness, not monetization.
Audrey Witters reflects on that era, using her now-famous animated alien GIF as an example of how playful, freely-shared work helped shape digital culture & why preserving it matters.
Learn more ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/12/22/a...
Audrey Witters reflects on that era, using her now-famous animated alien GIF as an example of how playful, freely-shared work helped shape digital culture & why preserving it matters.
Learn more ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/12/22/a...
Dont mind me, just zooming in to Putin on the Alden Global Capital “Crazy Wall” by Julie Reynolds via newsguild.org/the-alden-gl...
December 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Dont mind me, just zooming in to Putin on the Alden Global Capital “Crazy Wall” by Julie Reynolds via newsguild.org/the-alden-gl...
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The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
One thing I can’t figure out is why they would want everybody to stop taking vaccines. What’s in it for the Republican Party to be like this?
December 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
One thing I can’t figure out is why they would want everybody to stop taking vaccines. What’s in it for the Republican Party to be like this?
@bouldercast.com something worth looking into: I’m over at the end of Table Mesa by NCAR and seeing some snow flakes.
December 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
@bouldercast.com something worth looking into: I’m over at the end of Table Mesa by NCAR and seeing some snow flakes.
Muck Rack knows what’s going on here.
December 20, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Muck Rack knows what’s going on here.
I hope NPR wins. In my lawsuit against Heath Freeman, Randall Smith & Alden Global, when I learned Zansberg was their lawyer, I was expecting an honest lawyer who cared about the truth. I was surprised he took their case for $ on blind faith, disregards the truth as a tactic, & uses estoppel. 1/
In court last week, Zansberg told the judge that beyond being unconstitutional, Trump’s executive order “continues to this day to have direct and real and speech-chilling impacts on all three of the NPR stations.”
December 18, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I hope NPR wins. In my lawsuit against Heath Freeman, Randall Smith & Alden Global, when I learned Zansberg was their lawyer, I was expecting an honest lawyer who cared about the truth. I was surprised he took their case for $ on blind faith, disregards the truth as a tactic, & uses estoppel. 1/
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
iOS with passkey has finally solved the decades-old login/password problem.
December 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
iOS with passkey has finally solved the decades-old login/password problem.
Who in the U.S. would want to decimate the democracy of news (not just one sided political news), who would want to decimate housing, & who would want to decimate transportation like Greyhound? Not sure, but apparently the majority of Alden Global shareholders are unnamed & live outside of the U.S.
December 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Who in the U.S. would want to decimate the democracy of news (not just one sided political news), who would want to decimate housing, & who would want to decimate transportation like Greyhound? Not sure, but apparently the majority of Alden Global shareholders are unnamed & live outside of the U.S.
Keep your eyes on The Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) for ongoing updates on the allegations of fraud by Alden Global Capital’s Homes of America department. PESP has been tracking the harms to people for years:
NBC News covers senator’s investigation into corporate-owned manufactured housing
Last week, Senator Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire launched an investigation into six corporate owners of manufactured housing communities, including Alden Global Capital’s Homes of America.
pestakeholder.org
December 17, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Keep your eyes on The Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) for ongoing updates on the allegations of fraud by Alden Global Capital’s Homes of America department. PESP has been tracking the harms to people for years:
Holy cow #Duke
“Homes of America’s chief operating officer is Bryon Fields, a former Duke University football player who interned at Alden Global Capital”, run by Heath Freeman who also went to Duke.
What are yall thinking in calling this “excellence” by naming one of your fields “Freeman Field”??
“Homes of America’s chief operating officer is Bryon Fields, a former Duke University football player who interned at Alden Global Capital”, run by Heath Freeman who also went to Duke.
What are yall thinking in calling this “excellence” by naming one of your fields “Freeman Field”??
Metro-east mobile home parks bought by outside investment firm leave tenants ‘suffering’
“I’m not gonna sit back and be treated like I don’t matter because I live in a mobile home park,” said one tenant who took the property owner to court.
www.bnd.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Holy cow #Duke
“Homes of America’s chief operating officer is Bryon Fields, a former Duke University football player who interned at Alden Global Capital”, run by Heath Freeman who also went to Duke.
What are yall thinking in calling this “excellence” by naming one of your fields “Freeman Field”??
“Homes of America’s chief operating officer is Bryon Fields, a former Duke University football player who interned at Alden Global Capital”, run by Heath Freeman who also went to Duke.
What are yall thinking in calling this “excellence” by naming one of your fields “Freeman Field”??
More stories of Randall Smith and Heath Freeman’s Alden Global Capital business taking people’s homes by deferring maintenance, raising rent 100%, then literally confiscating people’s possessions through forceful entry.
Read:
www.bnd.com/news/local/a...
Read:
www.bnd.com/news/local/a...
December 16, 2025 at 3:17 AM
More stories of Randall Smith and Heath Freeman’s Alden Global Capital business taking people’s homes by deferring maintenance, raising rent 100%, then literally confiscating people’s possessions through forceful entry.
Read:
www.bnd.com/news/local/a...
Read:
www.bnd.com/news/local/a...
Considering the precedence, with two states opening criminal investigations into Homes of America and Congress demanding private business records from Alden Global Capital, the prospect of criminal liability for Randall Smith and Heath Freeman is no longer hypothetical.
Alden Global’s Homes of America pleads guilty in Michigan criminal case; must pay fine and sell property
On March 26, 2025, a Genesee County, Michigan prosecutor announced a criminal conviction against the owner of North Morris Estates manufactured housing park.
pestakeholder.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Considering the precedence, with two states opening criminal investigations into Homes of America and Congress demanding private business records from Alden Global Capital, the prospect of criminal liability for Randall Smith and Heath Freeman is no longer hypothetical.
Stories describing what Randall Smith & Heath Freeman at Alden Global Capital are doing to people through Homes of America are absolutely sick.
Belleville tenants say they couldn’t get repairs. Now landlord is ending leases
“What am I supposed to do?” said one tenant losing his investment in a rent-to-own agreement.
amp.bnd.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Stories describing what Randall Smith & Heath Freeman at Alden Global Capital are doing to people through Homes of America are absolutely sick.
Nice gift idea, great reviews. a.co/d/11pEEFn
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Nice gift idea, great reviews. a.co/d/11pEEFn
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Private equity, man. This is the world about which @brianralexander.bsky.social @greenwell.bsky.social have been warning us.
December 14, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Private equity, man. This is the world about which @brianralexander.bsky.social @greenwell.bsky.social have been warning us.
Denver Post readers can’t tell who pushed this OpenAI/Microsoft lawsuit story omitting the Post’s own stake because The Denver Post disclaimed their promise of owner-free editorial control in court. They can even break Trust Project promises w/syndicated content ordered from outside of the newsroom.
Open AI, Microsoft face lawsuit over ChatGPT’s alleged role in Connecticut murder-suicide
The lawsuit claims OpenAI designed a defective product that validated a user’s paranoid delusions, leading him to kill his own mother.
www.denverpost.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Denver Post readers can’t tell who pushed this OpenAI/Microsoft lawsuit story omitting the Post’s own stake because The Denver Post disclaimed their promise of owner-free editorial control in court. They can even break Trust Project promises w/syndicated content ordered from outside of the newsroom.