Hasta La Creative!

As we’ve snarked, since advertising can not support a newspaper alone and people no longer pay for the product they consume, newspapers will like musicians have to “adapt” and make T-shirts. And do they have, a lot of the alternative media sites support their business by selling water, t-shirts, wallets and all sorts of things. Adding a dash of creative snark to it, the Los Angeles Times (top left) showed off their “we will not be shut up” T-shirt on Twitter after having been barred from the White House press briefings.

Today @latimes not allowed in WH press briefing. Our new T-Shirt: You can shut us out out, but you can’t shut us up! pic.twitter.com/JM6NxOSYFC— Davan Maharaj (@DavanMaharaj) February 24, 2017

Only a few tweets down the thread, Propublica the fiercely independent news org, pointed out that they had already done such shirts. “We said steal our stories, not our shirts,” and so a fresh Badlander was born.

.@DavanMaharaj @latimes Yo — we said steal our stories, not our shirts. 😉 https://t.co/q8T1PnOkrX (Srsly, though, we stand with you.?)— Hannah Birch (@hannahsbirch) February 24, 2017