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  • A Modest Proposal For Anyone Offended by Nick Coleman

    03/28/2008 11:03:02 AM PDT · by .cnI redruM · 10 replies · 693+ views
    The Minority Report ^ | 28 March 2008 | .cnI redruM
    It was soon after the tragedy of 9-11 and I was working as an ORSA at beautiful Ft. Hood, Texas. The world was shocked at the brutality and savagery of the attack, but we at the mighty US Army Operational Test Command did not lose our sense of humor. The lady who cleaned the latrines in our building dutifully brought in a urinal cake holder with Osama’s smiling mug right in the center. You would have had to have been drunk to have missed. After a tough, hard day of nerd-wrestling test data, I could always imagine myself hosing the...
  • (Red)) Star Tribune's real estate for sale (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

    02/01/2008 2:16:32 PM PST · by abb · 13 replies · 161+ views
    (Red) Star Tribune ^ | February 1, 2008 | Matt McKinney
    For sale: a pair of office buildings. Served as home to skeptical cranks, loudmouth jokers and coffee-stained carpet. The Star Tribune's real estate is on the market once again, publisher Chris Harte told his staff in a memo sent Friday. The company hired a real estate broker but no deal is imminent, or even guaranteed, he wrote. A $45 million deal that would have sold off the newspaper's three parking lots and its lesser used Freeman office building to the Minnesota Vikings collapsed five months ago amid tightening credit markets. Harte said the deal this time may include everything, including...
  • Huckabee's experience as pastor an asset in presidential race

    01/24/2008 4:54:34 PM PST · by unspun · 34 replies · 92+ views
    Minneapolis StarTribune (AP) ^ | 1/23/2008 | RACHEL ZOLL
    In 1984 at Immanuel Baptist, he preached about leading a revival where worshippers rejoiced as prominent members of the community _ an attorney, a businessman _ accepted Jesus. He said he was heartbroken that people overlooked a young mentally retarded woman who also came forward. "She always came alone and left alone. And to all outward appearances, nobody really cared," he said. "But God made a very big announcement that night. Although she may sit in that pew by herself, he loved her." --- But his big-tent approach has left him vulnerable to detractors _ in Southern Baptist and GOP...
  • Judge rules Star Tribune publisher must step down

    09/18/2007 7:28:09 AM PDT · by Colonel_Flagg · 9 replies · 89+ views
    Minneapolis Star Tribune ^ | 9/18/2007 | Matt McKinney
    A judge ruled today that Star Tribune publisher Par Ridder must step down from his job after he was accused of wrongdoing by his former employer, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, which had sought to have him removed.
  • More cuts at (Red) Star Tribune (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

    08/17/2007 9:59:11 AM PDT · by abb · 18 replies · 540+ views
    Poynter Online ^ | August 17, 2007 | Jim Romenesko
    Topic: Miscellaneous items Date/Time: 8/17/2007 11:15:25 AM Title: More cuts at Star Tribune Posted By: Jim Romenesko Star Tribune newsroom union's report to members THE CUTS CONTINUE: Reports from other unions at the Strib You see them often -- eight savvy techs who help solve computer and other technical problems in the newsroom and elsewhere. Those eight IT workers are members of our CWA local (but not our Star Tribune Guild unit). (Erik Crane may be the IT we see most often in the newsroom.) Our union learned this week that the publisher is eliminating five of the techs' jobs....
  • Star Tribune publisher admits to taking data from Pioneer Press

    06/25/2007 3:58:33 PM PDT · by ButThreeLeftsDo · 4 replies · 445+ views
    KSTP.com ^ | 6/25/07 | AP
    Par Ridder, the publisher at the center of a legal fight between Minnesota's metro dailies, acknowledged in court testimony Monday that he took confidential computer files and a folder of noncompete agreements - including his own - when he left the St. Paul Pioneer Press for the Star Tribune. In videotaped testimony, Ridder admitted copying documents from his Pioneer Press computer and transferring them to his new computer at the Star Tribune, then sharing some of the documents with key Star Tribune executives. "I had profit numbers, revenue numbers, expense numbers," and sensitive information on advertisers and personnel, he said....
  • Iowahawk: Subscribe Now!

    05/07/2007 10:35:40 AM PDT · by IowaHawk · 9 replies · 746+ views
    Iowahawk | 5/6/7 | David Burge
    [UPDATE 05/06/07: Dedicated to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.] *************************Dear Subscriber: According to our records, your 1957 subscription to The Claxon is scheduled to expire soon. Please don't let this happen! $2 per month will buy you the Quint-State area's leading newspaper, delivered each morning by one of our cheerful Junior Claxoneer news lads -- like 12-year old Claxon Carrier of the Year Skip Olbermaier! Each issue is packed with items of interest around our community - like: Goings-on at City Hall, including the controversial $0.0032 sales tax plan! Publisher Felton Beswick Jr. keeps you up-to-date on the Red Menace! The...
  • Star Tribune must turn over computers to Pioneer Press

    04/21/2007 8:26:52 AM PDT · by ConservativeStatement · 3 replies · 267+ views
    St. Paul Pioneer Press ^ | April 20, 2007 | JOHN WELBES
    The Pioneer Press will get access to several computers and servers from the rival Star Tribune newspaper of Minneapolis, a judge ruled today. The Pioneer Press has been trying to recover computer data that it says its former publisher, Par Ridder, took with him when he left the Pioneer Press in March and crossed the river to take the same job at the Star Tribune. The 13-page decision by Ramsey County District Court Judge David Higgs said that the Star Tribune needs to hand over Ridder's three work computers and his home computer, Star Tribune computer servers and computers used...
  • algore poll -Should the U of M give Al Gore an honorary doctorate?

    02/22/2007 12:41:49 PM PST · by Rakkasan1 · 17 replies · 433+ views
    MPLS star & sickle ^ | 2-22-07 | star & sickle
    Instant poll: Should the U of M give Al Gore an honorary doctorate? University President Robert Bruininks said recently that two of the colleges were working to award a degree to the former vice president. Yes. He's done important work to save the environment No. He's a master of junk science Don't know
  • Publisher Keith Moyer to leave (Red) Star Tribune (Deck Chair Re-arrangement Alert)

    02/16/2007 9:51:58 AM PST · by abb · 13 replies · 410+ views
    Star Tribune ^ | February 16, 2007 | Tim Harlow
    The Star Tribune is looking for a new publisher. Keith Moyer announced Friday that he was stepping down from that position which he had held for six years. Moyer said that it was a "tough" decision to leave the Star Tribune and that his departure is in no way related to the newspaper's sale to Avista Capital Partners. "I say this unequivocally: I haven't been fired. Nor have I been asked to leave," Moyer said as he spoke to employees Friday morning. "I am not leaving because of the change of ownership. I have decided this is a perfect time...
  • McClatchy's profit-and-loss statement: They profit, we lose (Star-Tribune editor whines)

    12/28/2006 7:36:46 PM PST · by LdSentinal · 33 replies · 862+ views
    Minneapolis Star Tribune ^ | 12/28/06 | Nick Coleman
    When the McClatchy Co. got the keys to the Star Tribune in 1998, McClatchy's patriarch hailed the merger. James McClatchy called it a wedding of two newspaper traditions that shared "a deep-rooted commitment to building a just society." You now are permitted to laugh derisively. Eight years later, hardly anyone in the newspaper business talks about anything other than building profit margins that would choke a robber baron. Mercifully, Mr. McClatchy passed away in May and did not live to see the Sacramento-based company that bore his name disgrace his legacy by dumping its largest newspaper -- the most important...
  • Sale could reset the bar for newspaper deals -- lower (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

    12/28/2006 6:21:28 AM PST · by abb · 30 replies · 575+ views
    (Red) Star Tribune ^ | December 28, 2006 | Chris Serres
    Based on a multiple of cash flow, the price paid for the Star Tribune was much less than those paid for other papers this year, analysts say. Big-city newspapers, once held in high regard on Wall Street for their dependable earnings and advertising clout, have never looked so affordable. On Tuesday, the McClatchy Co. agreed to sell the Star Tribune for $530 million -- less than half the $1.2 billion it paid for the newspaper eight years ago. A tax break of $160 million resulting from the sale makes the deal worth $690 million to McClatchy. But as a multiple...
  • (Vanity) Political Limerick 12-27-2006

    12/27/2006 4:53:09 AM PST · by grey_whiskers · 112+ views
    grey_whiskers ^ | 12-27-2006 | grey_whiskers
    See for example this thread first. This News from the land of the Loon McClatchy sells the Star-Tribune For sadness or mirth It lost half of its worth (Don't look for a turnaround soon!)
  • Gay pride group sues Star Tribune over ads (MN)

    06/18/2006 5:16:10 PM PDT · by DBeers · 18 replies · 968+ views
    KARE-TV 11(Minneapolis, MN) ^ | June 17, 2006 | Associated Press
    Gay pride group sues Star Tribune over ads The organizer of the annual Twin Cities Pride Celebration has sued the Star Tribune, accusing the newspaper of discrimination and breach of contract for refusing to publish ads for the festival. The advertisements showed two men kissing. The lawsuit, filed Friday in Hennepin County District Court, said the newspaper applied different standards to GLBT/Pride Twin Cities because the newspaper had published ads depicting a heterosexual couple kissing. The lawsuit also contends the newspaper breached its advertising contract, and retaliated by failing to publish any of its advertisements, including one that did not...
  • Breaking the rules to shine a light on truth (Mega-Barf Alert!)

    04/25/2006 6:45:01 AM PDT · by MplsSteve · 16 replies · 588+ views
    Minneapolis StarTribune (aka The Red Star) ^ | 4/25/06 | Editorial Opinion
    On one level, CIA Director Porter Goss' decision to fire Mary O. McCarthy for leaking classified information to reporters may simply reflect necessary agency discipline. But it also perfectly fits the pattern of this administration: Hide unflattering information that Congress and the public should know, while selectively leaking classified information that fits the White House political agenda. McCarthy was fired for leaking information to Washington Post reporter Dana Priest about the CIA's system of secret prisons around the world where terrorist suspects are held. For her reporting, Priest won a well-deserved Pulitzer Prize.
  • Editorial: Army is stretched to breaking point Flawed strategy, insufficient forces are to blame.

    02/06/2006 6:28:31 AM PST · by MplsSteve · 30 replies · 862+ views
    The Marines may be the most celebrated of the American armed forces, but it's the Army that does most of the heavy lifting, as it is doing in Afghanistan and Iraq. In the process, the Army is being battered and shattered in the same way that it was in Vietnam. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld says that isn't the case; everything's fine. But a recent authoritative study says he is wrong.
  • They Were Against It, Before They Were For It (Minn Star Tribune's nuanced position on filibuster)

    05/09/2005 12:38:18 PM PDT · by RWR8189 · 11 replies · 805+ views
    The Weekly Standard ^ | May 8, 2005 | Scott Johnson
    Speaking out of both sides of one's mouth is an occupational hazard, if not an occupational necessity, for politicians seeking elective office in competitive races. It's not a pretty sight, and it supports a cynicism about democratic politics that is unbecoming. Catering to such cynicism, the leftist writer Garry Wills used to advise college audiences, "Vote for your enemy--he has no one to sell out to but you." The political debate over the use of the Senate's filibuster rule to torpedo President Bush's judicial nominees has triggered a series of reversals and pratfalls that support the low-comedy version of democratic...
  • Editorial: Bolton's bullying/He needs to go away (BARF BARRAGE!!!)

    04/21/2005 8:19:42 AM PDT · by RightWingAtheist · 12 replies · 743+ views
    Minneapolis (Red) Star-Tribune ^ | April 21 2005 | The Usual Gang of Idiots at the Star and Sickle
    When the White House says Democrats are trumping up accusations against John Bolton, nominated to be U.N. ambassador, it's kind of like the White House saying Martin Luther King Jr. trumped up accusations of racial bias: sad, laughable and demonstrably untrue on its face. But that's the line the Bush administration is taking on Bolton, despite an almost certainly fatal wound his nomination suffered Tuesday in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. After an impassioned plea by Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, said what he had heard troubled him enough that he didn't feel comfortable voting for Bolton....
  • Hugh Hewitt makes an enemy's list--Strib #2

    03/09/2005 8:14:01 AM PST · by Coastal · 9 replies · 682+ views
    City Pages ^ | March 9, 2005 | Paul Demko
    Stop us if you're heard this one before: A conservative talk-show host believes the media is guilty of liberal bias. That's pretty much the operating philosophy behind all right-wing radio. But California-based talk-show host and blog evangelist Hugh Hewitt has become obsessed with one specific mainstream-media outlet: the Star Tribune. "The worst major newspaper in terms of bias and chronic inaccuracy and axe-grinding is of course the Los Angeles Times," Hewitt wrote on his blog last week. "But among the second tier papers, the Minneapolis Star Tribune is as rotten a combination of no-talent tenured editorialists, biased reporters, and make-it-up-pollsters...
  • Merry Holiday/Culture wars at Christmas(more blue state bitching from the Star and Sickle)

    12/22/2004 7:21:33 AM PST · by Rakkasan1 · 21 replies · 635+ views
    MPLS Star & Sickle ^ | 12-22-04 | Star Tribune
    Habitual watchers of "Seinfeld" reruns know that tomorrow is Festivus, the holiday for the "rest of us" created by George Costanza's father for "the airing of grievances." It's in that comic spirit that we offer a holiday grievance of our own: the perception that Christians are victims of religious persecution in America and, more specifically, their warnings of a secular conspiracy to stamp out Christmas. These complaints strike us as melodramatic. For a rising tide of evangelical believers to raise these laments is a bit like the wealthy complaining about high taxes or the Yankees about not winning the World...