The Grand Canyon Times isn’t a traditional newspaper. It’s part of an opaque media organization that recycles right-wing news articles across a network of hyperlocal-sounding news websites, which are padded out with press releases.
The papers, many of which attack Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker, are imprints of LGIS, a company Timpone launched with Florida-based Republican strategist Dan Proft. Proft, who did not return a request for comment, runs the “People Who Play By The Rules” political action committee.
People Who Play By The Rules has raked in more than $26 million this year from Illinois billionaire Richard Uihlein. The PAC has spent more than $226,000 on services from Pipeline Media, another of Timpone’s companies, public filings show. The expenditures are earmarked as text messages, robocalls, and a website opposing Democratic candidates; it's unclear from the filings whether any of the PAC funding went toward LGIS publications.
But publications in LGIS’s Illinois network do acknowledge outside funding, even if it’s unclear who’s backing the outlets. “Funding for this news site is provided, in part, by advocacy groups who share our beliefs in limited government,” reads a standard disclaimer on the “about” page of Illinois LGIS websites.
Outside its politics pages, the paper’s offerings are scant: an error-ridden who’s-who of local football players; press releases; aggregated articles from authors whose work appears in other Metric publications in Georgia, Texas, and Illinois. “Virginia Sen. Kyrsten Sinema gave a speech in defense of bipartisanship,” begins an Oct. 4 article that topped theGrand Canyon Times
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