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Shakeups in Local News
Steve Perry is out at the Minnesota Independent, apparently as fallout from the recent budget cutting measures, which included the axing of several staff members.
The Star-Tribune's CJ Continues to Bewilder
You can read the story here, but the real head-scratcher line is the following one: So in a very unThankgivingy move, I called Shelby Wednesday to tell him that I was revoking his “Honorary Black Guy” card. Long, long time ago I elevated Shelby to honorary black guy because of how well he plays basketball and because Don thinks he prepares gumbo like an old Southern black woman.
Legal Lolitas
I have always wondered why certain cars remain off limits to men of a particular age.
If I were king of the fore-e-e-est
I hope you all noticed the bold initiative of the Star Tribune, as expressed on their editorial page on Sunday. Yup, they put their heads together, snorted and wheezed with the Herculean effort, pressed hard on their temples to concentrate the intellect, and made their endorsement regarding tomorrow's "Super Tuesday" nationwide primaries and caucuses.
And you thought they were too timid to actually make an endorsement without doing a focus group first of what they could get away with without offending their ever shrinking base of readers and advertisers.
Over the Coals 2007
BUSINESS
On the other hand, we recommend that you call Duluth “Paris.”
Boned
Noam Chomsky says a well-informed populace is a necessary ingredient to any democracy. In other words, we're boned.
Randy, The Reader's Rep ...
(A semi-regular Q&A with "Randy" the new Star Tribune Reader's Representative, most frequently found on the corner stool at the Dry Dock roadhouse, in the shadow of the big microwave tower, Chaffey, Wisconsin.)
Banana Republic Fades into the Sunset
Damn! Over here I keep a list of great story ideas and names of people I've really got to get around to catching up with, just to see what their story is today. Like MPR's Bill Kling. Like all the guys who played in The Warheads years ago. And like Kirk Anderson, the former cartoonist for the Pioneer Press whose heave-ho in April 2003 was early, solid confirmation that "local, local" was going to have more to do with "money, money" and "innocuous, innocuous" than reader appeal.
If you're going to insult me, cancel my subscription first
Here is the first sentence of today's Star Tribune editorial on "Aiding Baby Boomers' Search for Meaning": "The nation's supernumerary baby-boomers have reached what's being gently called "the second half of life," but the big generation is still doing what it has done since its diaper days: It's demanding notice and altering the contours of every phase of life it touches."
Yuk.
Strib's Hage to join Klobuchar
