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  • Internal AP memo on breaking the “Going Rogue” story

    Number of comments: 2
    via tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com An interesting look into the AP’s process for tracking down an early copy of Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue” and how the news service was first with the fact-check story. It’s like a Bond movie! Posted via web from Mike’s stuff [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 4:04pm EST
    by Mike Keliher

  • Really, AP?

    Number of comments: 5
    via The Associated Press A) It’s not the AP’s job to report on what the First Lady is wearing. B) Let’s discuss this matter of you calling it a “flesh-colored gown.” [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 3:05pm EST
    by Mike Keliher

  • Will MPR save journalism?

    Number of comments: 7
    I assure you I’m neither the first nor the last keyboard jockey to ask this post’s titular question, but this article from Ken Doctor has me thinking again about it. (In fact, last time I was on this kick, I was writing about NPR and, a quick check reveals, I [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 9:30pm EST
    by Mike Keliher

  • Evolution or Devolution of Political Discourse?

    Number of comments: 10
    - Loveland [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 4:37pm EST
    by Joe Loveland

  • Democrats on Deficit: Proclaim, Don’t Blame

    Number of comments: 10
    Republicans have a potent issue to win over Independents and other swing voters in the 2010 congressional elections – the deficit. And the Democrats’ defense against deficit spending charges so far has been “Bush did it first.” That “Bush did it first” blaming is certainly true. Bush’s Democratic predecessor eliminated the [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 9:21am EST
    by Joe Loveland

  • Zygi’s PR Hail Mary Puts Vikings In The Game

    Number of comments: 10
    In the political world, there is something much worse than being opposed. It’s called being ignored. And until Vikings owner Zygi Wilf and his team showed their teeth this week, they were being roundly ignored by the Legislature. The billionaire not only couldn’t get half a billion bucks from the Legislature, [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:52pm EST
    by Joe Loveland

  • Media Misses Health Trend Story Behind Rating

    Number of comments: 10
    We’re number six! We’re number six! It’s not exactly the cheer proud Minnesotans are accustomed to when it comes to health. After all, for four years in a row we were the number one healthiest state in the nation, according to the United Health Foundation. Health has always been one [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:13pm EST
    by Joe Loveland

  • Siding With Sarah

    Number of comments: 10
    Pigs must be aloft and they must be playing hockey in Hell today because I find myself in agreement with Sarah Palin regarding Newsweek’s cover photo choice.  It’s a cheap shot and one the magazine should have resisted taking. It’d be one thing if she posed for Newsweek in this get-up, [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:13pm EST
    by Jon Austin

  • The End of Unallot?

    Number of comments: 6
    Five months ago, we ruminated about “Unallot,” the magical fiscal fiefdom created by Governor Tim Pawlenty. “Don’t let it be forgot That once there was a spot, For one brief, shining moment That was known as Unallot.” In the magical kingdom of Unallot, a Governor who feigns surprise about huge deficits that have been [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:36pm EST
    by Joe Loveland

  • “Dithering” Doublespeak

    Number of comments: 10
    One of the things that uncredentialed fake journalist Jon Stewart does on Comedy Channel that many credentialed real journalists don’t do is connect the dots of recent events. Stewart and his writers don’t just regurgitate the news of the day and look at events in isolation. They dig until they [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 3:26pm EST
    by Joe Loveland

  • Why newspapers need copyeditors

    Number of comments: 2
    Hell hath no fury like an AP stylist scorned. (Click the image to see a larger version. Story here.) [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 12:46am EST
    by Mike Keliher

  • “No Faith Justifies These Murderous and Craven Acts”

    Number of comments: 10
    Yesterday’s service at Fort Hood for the soldiers murdered last week was a haunting introduction to Veterans Day. These are trying times for our country, President Obama said in Texas. He’s trying to bring the Iraq war to an end, and trying to understand what path is best in the [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:18am EST
    by Bruce Benidt

  • The Wall

    Number of comments: 10
    A wall is a symbol. Of fear. Of hope. The Berlin Wall — and its absence — is a symbol that change is possible. Change can come. There is always hope, in the deepest dark, that the world can change. For 28 years in prison, Nelson Mandela held on to [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 9:43pm EST
    by Bruce Benidt

  • Pawlenty’s Secret Weapon in Iowa

    Number of comments: 2
    Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty has been busy preening Presidential in Iowa, which raises an interesting question: Where will his breakthrough political moment come in the Hawkeye State? Will Governor Pawlenty’s breakthrough come during a spellbinding address to the Muscatine County Republican Women’s Club meeting? Will it come with a well-timed anti-evolution [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 9:06am EST
    by Joe Loveland

  • “With liberty and health care for all.”

    Number of comments: 10
    The House of Representatives is within minutes of having its members vote on the Health Care bill — H.R. 3962. As could be expected, most Republicans see the bill as a loss of freedom for citizens and too expensive ($1.2 tillion during the next decade, they claim.) But Most Democrats [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:28pm EST
    by Ellen Mrja

  • Signs of the Times

    Number of comments: 10
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 12:47pm EST
    by Joe Loveland

  • A Developing Tragedy…

    Number of comments: 2
    The first reports from Fort Hood are chaotic but are coalescing around a couple of truly horrific numbers – 12 dead, 31 injured in a shooting on the U.S.’s largest military installation.  Now comes word that the one of three possible shooters is Army Major Malik Nadal Hassan, age 39 [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 5:00pm EST
    by Jon Austin

  • Whither Obama?

    Number of comments: 5
    Did yesterday’s election tell President Obama to go more to the right or more to the left? Spinners are making the Arachnid Hall of Fame these last 24 hours. Obama’s done, the Right will Rise Again. Or, these were local elections and they were about the individual candidates and blahmeblahblah. [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 12:32am EST
    by Bruce Benidt

  • Kingmaker’s Club Republicans

    Number of comments: 10
    Governor Pawlenty loves to lecture Repbulicans that they mustn’t only be Country Club Republicans, but must also strive to be Sam’s Club Republicans. It’s a savvy attempt to win the votes of the all-important Buys Charmin By the Cubic Yard Moms. Well recently Minnesota’s Governor in absentia has also been acting [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:44pm EST
    by Joe Loveland

  • IRV Votes and He’s Kinda Rank

    Number of comments: 3
    Chalk this up to me being an old fuddy-duddy, a conservative, but I voted today in Minneapolis using the instant-runoff ranking, and it felt stupid to me. I wanted to be interviewed by somebody — newsies were interviewing voters about the new ranked-choice voting, and most of the comments were about [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:33am EST
    by Bruce Benidt

  • In The Arena, At Last

    Number of comments: 8
    Republican President Theodore Roosevelt once described what it is like to stick your neck out in the brutal world of political communications: “It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 3:52pm EST
    by Joe Loveland

  • A Long (But Easy) Report on Web Analytics 101

    Number of comments: 4
    I attended a conference of the Online News Association in San Francisco last month and heard USC Annenberg lecturer Dr. Dana Chinn present a good session on “finding meaning in the metrics” of Web analytics. (For those of you who are experts in Google Analytics, like my friend Jeremy Powers, [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 10:01pm EST
    by Ellen Mrja

  • Why The Lack of Mac-like Attacks?

    Number of comments: 10
    One of the most profound paradoxes of American politics is that citizens love to hate negative political ads, yet negative ads persist, because the same consumers that hate them are consistently persuaded by them. If negative ads work so well for bottom-line driven political consultants unselling the competitors’ politicians, it would [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 4:38pm EST
    by Joe Loveland

  • Obama Wrong on Fox, Right on Journalists’ Shield Law

    Number of comments: 6
    The Obama administration has gone one for two on issues with the media recently — and it’s gotten the most important one right. I think they’ve muffed it on Fox — good lord, grow a thicker skin and don’t give those twerps the satisfaction of successfully picking a fight with you. [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 11:31pm EST
    by Bruce Benidt
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