Lib Reporter Outraged: Minn. Paper Hires Conservative Columnist

NewsBusters ^ | Ken Shepherd

[Slapshot68]

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

[AU72]

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

[weegee]

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

[brownsfan]

“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.

[Cyber Liberty]

I like it when they are made to squeal like a pig....

[The Iceman Cometh]

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.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

...THEIR ideas...

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

[Baladas]

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.

[Slapshot68]

“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.

[Badeye]

Exactly.

[beefree]

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

[smalltownslick]

“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?

[PEACE ENFORCER]

Someone should ask this “Libtard” where’s the Tolerance?!

[B-Chan]

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.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

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.

[Choose Ye This Day]

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

[Jigajog]

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.

[rockabyebaby]

ATTENTION LIB REPORTER

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

[B-Chan]

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