Posted on 10/10/2007 12:40:34 PM PDT by RatherBiased.com
Those pesky conservative suburbanites and their market forces! They'll be the ruin of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, bellows Anonymous.
Hugh Hewitt and Ed Morrissey have taken on the unattributed complaints of a self-described Star-Tribune ("Strib") veteran, who laments that his beloved paper is becoming a right-wing shill for, gasp, hiring a token conservative opinion columnist.:
The Rake, a local alternative newspaper here in the Twin Cities, published an interesting cri de coeur from "one Strib veteran" about the direction of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. The anonymous attribution wears thin in the first line of the quote:
As one Strib veteran tells the Mole, "The right-wing blog voices that were bashing the paper a couple of years ago, Hugh Hewitt and the rest, have gotten pretty much everything they wanted. The GOP wanted the Minnesota Poll gone, and now it's gone. They wanted to get rid of people like [editorial board members] Jim Boyd and Susan Albright and their editorial policy, and they've succeeded at that. Now there won't be editorials about the war and global warming; they'll write about local issues like zoning conflicts in Coon Rapids instead. They wanted the paper to hire a conservative columnist, and they got that. From here on out, it looks like the Strib becomes the conservative, suburbs-oriented paper, and the Pioneer Press will become the paper of the city underdogs and the blue voters. They may wind up getting pushed more to the left."
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Right wing shill? So? It was a left wing shill before, let the other side have a say now.
Another frustrated lib ‘J’School graduate who is stuck working in flyover country.
A monopoly on the media is okay as long as it is THEIR ideas that have the stage.
“They may wind up getting pushed more to the left.”
So, the left isn’t about right and wrong? It’s not about holding views they consider best, it’s about reacting to the right?
Stupid libs.
Of course, the main reason is that the left has veered so far left that reason has become an enigma to them.
Are you kidding? They have no ideas! What's more, they don't even have a clue!
Well, here’s another example of liberal logic - the MSM, especially the newspapers - are dying a slow, painful death so their solution is not to change a thing.
Bet Al Franken doesn’t like this idea one bit.
“When liberals avoid appearing on Fox News or shun appearances on talk radio, they have given up in the arena of ideas.”
Yup, because ultimately they’ll know they’ll be exposed for what they truly are...socialists.
Exactly.
What’s the problem, Libs? I suspect the “token” would prove useful as punching bag similar to treatment of Hasselbeck on view.
“Now there won’t be editorials about the war and global warming; they’ll write about local issues like zoning conflicts in Coon Rapids instead.”
Isn’t that the real purpose of a local paper?
As long as they have Lileks, I don't care what they do.
That’s exactly whey papers in Shakopee, Prior Lake, etc., are growing and the Strib is sucking pond water. Plus, the remaining inner city residents either don’t read or don’t speak English.
I thought they pulled Lilek’s column, and made him write beat reports. Did that not go through?
That is not a bad business plan for newspapers - think local-report local. I don’t see why local papers bother to covering national/world news (reprinting what the WAPO/NYT says) . Geez, does anyone rely on a newspaper for news? Just signed up for my IBD, the lady asked me about delivery options, I told her don’t send me dead trees, just give me the online subscription I haul too much to curb already. She laughed and agreed heartily. Long gone are the days when I road a train to work and could actually read a newspaper.
GET OVER YOURSELF...........
It did. His online blog is at buzz.mn.
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