Michele Bachmann: why is the Strib working so hard to get her re-elected?
This ran this last weekend in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the reporter is Jennifer Brooks. The first paragraphs: Bachmann on the move in her toughest race yet The baby knocked over a glass of water....
View ArticleStar Tribune endorses Graves, disses Bachmann
MPP contributor Jacob pointed up the Star Tribune endorsement for Minnesota's Sixth Congressional district (published Friday, October 26.The paper endorsed Bachmann's opponent. They always do. This...
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Twin Cities journalists fail to cover David Hann conflict of interest story
Sen. David Hann (R-Eden Prairie) is locked in a tight race to keep his seat against a DFL challenger Laurie McKendry. You would think that Twin Cities journalists would think that their readers,...
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Media covers Twitter spat, ignores David Hann's conflict of interest
While the Twin Cities media refuse to cover Sen. David Hann's (R-Eden Prairie) conflict of interest, they are covering the kerfluffle between retiring Rep. John Kriesel (R-Cottage Grove) and Republican...
View ArticleThe Strib can't be serious with "Minnesota's in play!"
But the powers-that-be there apparently are. For public consumption, anyway.With Minnesota teetering on the edge of battleground territory in the presidential race, Republican nominee Mitt Romney and...
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Star Tribune has nothing on Bachmann call for Benghazi Inquest
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Minnesota's highest profile politician, wants in inquest into how the Obama Administration misled America about what happened, when they knew what they knew and etc. As...
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Are more people spurning corporate media?
The trends in where people are going for political news and analysis are readily apparent. It is important to note that "Internet," in the image, includes corporate media's online presence....
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Michele Bachmann exemplifies how US media fails to cover how crazy...
I've been ranting on this blog about how Minnesota's media won't adequately cover Minnesota's highest profile politician, Michele Bachmann. At times it seems like this blog, Dump Bachmann and City...
View ArticleMichele Bachmann: PiPress, MPR run stories on her latest Obama conspiracy theory
Earthquake development in PiPress and MPR news coverage on Bachmann, this week......last weekend, Bachmann went a conservative evangelical broadcast to allege that the President of the United States is...
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Media scaremongers focus on the "dairy cliff"
The proposed farm legislation that made it part of the way through Congress in 2012 was not progressive. But it wasn't because of progressives that the bill stalled; right-wing fanatics in Congress...
View ArticlePol media $$$ went to local TV
TVB a nation-wide, local television trade association, reports that local TV stations snared more than 80% of total television spending in the political category during the 2012 campaign season. This...
View ArticleWhy isn't the Star Tribune covering the DFL push to raise the minimum wage?
The DFL looks to be making a serious push to raise the minimum wage.Rep. Ryan Winkler, DFL-Golden Valley chairs the Select Committee on Living Wage Jobs, which had their first meeting on Monday. I...
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TPT Takes On The Gun Nuts, On Your Radio!
(photo courtesy of Jack Tomczak, via Twitter) Last Friday night (08 Feb 2013), yours truly, the ol' TwoPutter, was invited by Jack Tomczak & Ben Kruse to be on Late Debate to discuss guns with...
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Dear AP: Climate change is not a social issue
MPR reprinted an AP article on last night's State of the Union speech. The writer, Nedra Pickler, included this weird sentence (bolding mine), "And he continued to push in support of left-leaning...
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