Bob CollinsA statement from the University of Minnesota today carries a disturbing piece of information about the actions of the local news media. Read more →
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They don’t make newspaper people like Marilyn Hagerty anymore. The Grand Forks, N.D., columnist knows how to tell the story of the soul of the communities she covers. Read more →
A day after PBS announced it would trim Sesame Street to a half hour, Sesame Workshop and HBO delivered a bombshell today — Sesame Street will move to HBO. Read more →
The end is near: The hour-long version of Sesame Street will soon be no more on PBS. Read more →
Politico Media’s Capital New York has exposed a bit of the tension between podcasters and broadcasters in the public radio realm, including a brewing battle of the generations. Read more →
We cannot let the week pass without a tip of the blogger hat to Fred de Sam Lazaro, who makes Minnesotans who watch PBS NewsHour a little more proud each time one of his reports airs.
He is marking 40 years since coming to America and runs the Under-told Stories unit under a funding deal with St. Mary’s in Winona. Read more →
Data show Minneapolis-St. Paul isn’t much for news on the radio. Sports is another story, however.
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The Washington Post (via NPR) has lifted the curtain on a debate underway within NPR on whether obscenities should be allowed on public radio.
Honk if you thought Nina Totenberg would be one of the NPR reporters most likely to push back against an edict that they be bleeped. Read more →
NPR’s Linda Holmes, who writes the Monkey See blog on popular culture, has found her way — sort of — into the percolating podcast v. radio debate with her latest post about a TV show. Read more →
Hard as it is to believe now, it was quite scandalous back in the early ’70s when White House correspondent Dan Rather and President Richard Nixon butted heads over a question at a news conference. Read more →
Fox News isn’t really news, a judge in Wisconsin has ruled. Sort of.
The judge in Milwaukee County ruled against Aaron Marjala, a firefighter who was found permanently disabled in 2008. While collecting the disability payments Marjala maintained “an active lifestyle.” Marjala even ran in marathons. Read more →
Let’s get this out of the way at the start: Nobody is going to feel sorry for journalists. They made the choice to get into the business they’re in. We get that. But here’s some breaking news: Journalists feel, which is one of the reasons they got into the business they’re in. They hurt the Read more →
Publisher Andrew Wallmeyer announced the MinnPost+ program, which will make some content available only to people who donate $60 or more a year. Read more →
Journalist Adam Ragusea acknowledges a poorly-kept secret: public media journalists — and journalists in general — lean left. Why pretend?
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Brian Williams has given his first interview since being bounced from the NBC anchor desk, leading to a greater question of why does NBC News employ a journalist who acknowledges making things up when most respectable news organizations want nothing to do with journalism’s cardinal sin?
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