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WASHINGTON POST REINVENTS ITSELF AS A SUPERMARKET TABLOID

imageWASHINGTON, D.C. (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – In a move that surprised the journalism industry, The Washington Post today converted from a respected mainstream newspaper to a supermarket tabloid, as a way of coping with declining subscriptions and advertising revenue.

The Post now puts itself in direct competition with the popular tabloid National Enquirer, known for gossip columns, sensationalized ‘news’ stories and street journalism.

The Post’s maiden issue as a tabloid hit the news stands today with a headline story on the Oregon school mass shooting.

In its headline and front page story, The Post blamed President Obama for the school shooting and noted that there has not been  a calendar week during the president’s second term that there wasn’t a mass shooting.

Sources close to The Post  confirmed that the newspaper has received  new major funding from the National Rifle Association and other lobby groups that roam Capitol Hill.

A MOMENT OF BLACKOUT IN HONOR OF AMERICA’S FASCINATION FOR GUN VIOLENCE

NRA HEADQUARTERS, Fairfax, Virginia (The Adobo Chronicles® )  –

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NRA LOBBIES TO AMEND THE SECOND AMENDMENT

imageWashington, D.C (The Adobo Chronicles) –  The powerful and influential National Rifle Association (NRA) has launched a nationwide campaign that it hopes would lead to an amendment to the Second Amendment.

The Second Amendment has been the single biggest roadblock to gun control legislation in the U.S. It protects the rights of ordinary citizens to bear arms. It was ratified on December 17, 1791 along with the other nine amendments that make up the Bill of Rights. While it is a very short amendment, its exact meaning in terms of what types of weapons are protected is still in contention today.

Red states, blue states and everything in between
Red states, blue states and everything in between

The NRA proposal is both comprehensive and limiting. It seeks to affirm and clarify the right to own guns outside of “organized militia,” while reserving this right only to Republican and Republican-leaning states.

Text of the 2nd Amendment

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

NRA’s Proposed Amendment

“Guns of all types, being necessary to the happiness and security of the Red States, their right to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

NRA is preparing to roll out full-page newspapaper ads, radio and TV commercials, biilboard and bus poster ads and email marketing campaigns in the next few days.

The NRA is coming to a place near you, that is,  if you live in a red state.