Anderson Valley Advertiser
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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
Contributors include:
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 February 3, 2005 final issue.
