Independent (of Whom?)

Remember a couple months back when I asked whether anyone remembered a publication called the Madison Independent somewhere around 1982?

Nobody has stepped up with information about it, but we did receive two issues of this in the mail this summer:

The "About Us" insert that came with one of them claims that the Wisconsin Independent is staffed by experienced journalists, and there's a QR code if you care to send in recipes or to unsubscribe. In spite of a bare-bones crossword and articles about such things as blackbirds and the Packers, the rest does read like campaign literature.

There's no masthead, nor any boilerplate identifying it as campaign literature; just a return address for the American Independent at a P.O. box in Washington D.C.

Also, no cartoons, so, meh. 

There is a definite liberal tilt to the articles about politics. Not the sort of liberal bias conservatives complain about when the mainstream media don't act as docile cheerleaders parroting right-wing talking points. This stuff is a left-wing counterbalance to Fox News and talk radio. Or that complimentary issue of Epoch Times my dad got in his mail this week.

I figured the proof of the pudding would be if the Wisconsin Independent stopped coming to our house as soon as this year's election is over.

But we haven't received a September issue, so I guess we'll never know.