Michele Bachmann: Brian Lambert's criticism of Minnesota coverage, again
Veteran Minnesota journalist Brian Lambert broke with his fellow Minnesota reporters and editors about the quality of Michele Bachmann news coverage in Minnesota. Lambert concluded that the leading...
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Veteran Minnesota political reporter Brian Lambert has dismissed leading Minnesota media's coverage of Michele Bachmann as a "fail." It's not all bad news. Lambert did identify a small number of far...
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Veteran Minnesota journalist and MinnPost staffer Brian Lambert explains why he thinks the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minneapolis Star Tribune, and Minnesota Public Radio coverage was a "fail": ...the...
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Looking Foolish for the Sake of "Balance"
I've long since stopped reading the op-ed pages in the dead tree news media delivered to this household, namely, the Star Tribune. Â I'm not suggesting that everybody else should stop, too; Â it's just...
View ArticleMichele Bachmann: who's linking her homophobia political strategy to teen...
Michele Bachmann on Christian radio in 2004, speaking about the gay community and same-sex marriage: "This is a very serious matter, because it is our children who are the prize for this community,...
View ArticleMichele Bachmann: Does "economic calculation" determine MN political news...
Brian Lambert praised a Rolling Stone piece that related suicides by gay teens in Anoka/Hennepin to the homophobic rhetoric peddled by Congresswomann Michele Bachmann and other political types in the...
View ArticleMichele Bachmann: your anonymity, threats, the First Amendment, Jail, and "I...
Last year a man currently referred to as "Mr. X" tweeted something so appalling about Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann that I don't wish to repeat it here. It was a horrible thing to publish...
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Shhhh! Ramsey County Sheriff Bostrom and Police Units Working Well Together
Mainstream media reports "crime" the way that Disney Pixar movie dog characters notice "SQUIRREL!!!" With a publishing principle of "the more gore the better," the Minneapolis police receive major...
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European Voters Have Had More Than Enough "Austerity"
Voters in France got change at the top.French voters chose Socialist Francois Hollande as their new president Sunday in a race that will have implications for Europe's debt crisis, the Afghanistan war...
View ArticleOn Journalism
Here at MPP, Regular Readers recognize that on occasion we've been critical of reporting/reporters - but only for the old-fashioned reason: it's been earned. When the Strib took Reporter Mark Brunswick...
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Useful Data Re: The Wisconsin Recall
I got an email this morning, that included this:But what the national media is not telling you is: I am the new Democratic Senate Majority Leader after winning an important Senate recall election by...
View ArticlePatch highlights homophobic comment as "best of" the week
I found this to be in rather poor taste. In Patch's article featuring "The best comments from around the west metro between June 2 and June 7," they chose to highlight misinformed, homophobic comment...
View Article"Dewey Defeats Truman!" "Obamacare Found Unconstitutional!" "Duh!"
A classic "Dewey Defeats Truman" moment from America's corporate media: From USA Today (link below:) When the court ruling was made public Thursday morning, CNN and Fox News erroneously reported that...
View ArticleAmericans for Prosperity Ad Flees From the Facts
I watch little television, yet I've seen this advertisement, from "Americans for Prosperity," repeatedly, during the past few days, mostly because it's included in the batch of commercials prior to...
View ArticleMichele Bachmann: why we have to beat her, this year
Salon looks at Minnesota and says Bachmann may be in trouble this year. (We already covered a lot of the reasons Salon mentions, weeks ago. But if you want their summary, it's below at the link.) The...
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Covering (for) Willard Romney
(Update: real reporting, by MPR's Tom Scheck - link below the fold) At the local watering hole, a guy who's economy has been BushWhacked asked if the ol' TwoPutter was gonna cover Willard's...
View ArticleIs Reality Rearing Its Ugly Head?
Watching the Kabuki of another election season and listening to the sound and fury, I am stuck by just how meaningless it all seems. The messaging this year keeps bumping up against reality and falls...
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Today's Example Of The Media's Leftist Bias, Ernie Leidiger Edition
These days, republiCons are wailing and gnashing teeth over their belief that the media bends over backwards to push a liberal/leftist/socialist/french fry APPEASER narrative for the Democratic Party...
View ArticleMichele Bachmann: Pioneer Press helps her out again
Here's how they did that: The Pioneer Press assigned reporter Megan Boldt to do side-by-side profiles of the competing Bachmann and Graves campaigns--both of which ran as top-of-the-front-page headline...
View ArticleThe GOP: we can't win if you're allowed to vote
Imagine that a reporter discovered the existence of a foreign conspiracy aimed at preventing many Americans from voting in the next election. Then the reporter also finds out that these g****mn...
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