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Lib Reporter Outraged: Minn. Paper Hires Conservative Columnist
NewsBusters ^ | Ken Shepherd

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: minnesota; redstartribune; strib
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1 posted on 10/10/2007 12:40:47 PM PDT by RatherBiased.com
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To: RatherBiased.com

Right wing shill? So? It was a left wing shill before, let the other side have a say now.


2 posted on 10/10/2007 12:42:22 PM PDT by Slapshot68
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To: RatherBiased.com

Another frustrated lib ‘J’School graduate who is stuck working in flyover country.


3 posted on 10/10/2007 12:44:37 PM PDT by AU72
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To: Slapshot68

A monopoly on the media is okay as long as it is THEIR ideas that have the stage.


4 posted on 10/10/2007 12:44:49 PM PDT by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: RatherBiased.com

“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.


5 posted on 10/10/2007 12:45:24 PM PDT by brownsfan (America has "jumped the shark")
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To: RatherBiased.com
I like it when they are made to squeal like a pig....
6 posted on 10/10/2007 12:45:33 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Don’t trust anyone who can’t take a joke. [Congressman BillyBob])
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To: Slapshot68
The liberals are no longer interested in debating issues with the other side and simply want them silenced. Gone are the days (if they ever existed) where liberals and conservatives can debate openly and seek the best possible solution. When liberals avoid appearing on Fox News or shun appearances on talk radio, they have given up in the arena of ideas.

Of course, the main reason is that the left has veered so far left that reason has become an enigma to them.

7 posted on 10/10/2007 12:47:06 PM PDT by The Iceman Cometh (Democrats In Control! (Where's my friggin' free stuff?))
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To: weegee
...THEIR ideas...

Are you kidding? They have no ideas! What's more, they don't even have a clue!

8 posted on 10/10/2007 12:48:59 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Officially Fredbacker1 but don't know how to change my name)
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To: RatherBiased.com

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.


9 posted on 10/10/2007 12:50:20 PM PDT by Baladas
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To: The Iceman Cometh

“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.


10 posted on 10/10/2007 12:50:42 PM PDT by Slapshot68
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To: Slapshot68

Exactly.


11 posted on 10/10/2007 12:53:20 PM PDT by Badeye (Free Willie!)
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To: Bushbacker1

What’s the problem, Libs? I suspect the “token” would prove useful as punching bag similar to treatment of Hasselbeck on view.


12 posted on 10/10/2007 12:54:10 PM PDT by beefree (AMERICA BLESS GOD)
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“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?


13 posted on 10/10/2007 12:54:46 PM PDT by smalltownslick
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To: RatherBiased.com
Someone should ask this “Libtard” where’s the Tolerance?!
14 posted on 10/10/2007 12:55:10 PM PDT by PEACE ENFORCER (One Needs to Have the Capability of Using Deadly Force at Any Moment.....:))
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To survive, newspapers are going to have to leave politics and world news to the Internet and concentrate on in-depth coverage of local issues. It sounds like the Star-Tribune is doing just that.

As long as they have Lileks, I don't care what they do.

15 posted on 10/10/2007 12:56:58 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: smalltownslick

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.


16 posted on 10/10/2007 1:07:14 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Go Hawks !)
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To: B-Chan

I thought they pulled Lilek’s column, and made him write beat reports. Did that not go through?


17 posted on 10/10/2007 1:11:08 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day (War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want. -- Sherman)
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To: B-Chan

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.


18 posted on 10/10/2007 1:19:55 PM PDT by Jigajog
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To: RatherBiased.com
ATTENTION LIB REPORTER

GET OVER YOURSELF...........

19 posted on 10/10/2007 1:20:25 PM PDT by rockabyebaby (HEY JORGE, SHUT UP AND BUILD THE BLEEPING FENCE, ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.)
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To: Choose Ye This Day

It did. His online blog is at buzz.mn.


20 posted on 10/10/2007 1:23:59 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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