| Anderson Valley Advertiser | |
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| Type | Weekly newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | Independent |
| Publisher | Bruce Anderson |
| Editor | Bruce Anderson |
| Founded | 1955 |
| Headquarters | Boonville, CA 95415 United States |
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| Website: theava.com | |
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 and the Industrial Workers of the World:
- Fanning the Flames of Discontent! (The IWW's Little Red Songbook is sub-titled "To Fan 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 relocated to 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 and soon after returned to Northern California. After purchasing his paper back in July of 2007, Anderson resumed editing the Anderson Valley Advertiser, allowing his scathing critiques and Mark Twainian insights once more to be ingested on a weekly basis.
