Nate Minor(Update: NYTimes.com is chugging back to life, as of about 12:15 CDT. The original post is below.) NYTimes.com is down, as of this writing. It’s the first widespread outage in recent memory. The Grey Lady’s official Twitter handle says it’s an internal issue: We believe the outage is the result of an internal issue, which Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Media
Bob Collins
Kids who make a difference, when an NPR journalist destroys NPR journalism, what go wrong with Ticketmaster’s entrance into the scalping market, watching the lights go out with Alzheimer’s, and the Islamic center proposal in St. Cloud. Read more →
Are comment sections tools for good or evil? Talk it out at the next Policy and a Pint. Read more →
T.D. “Tommy” Mischke, the quirky and well-loved radio host, announced on his WCCO-AM show last night that he’s leaving the station.
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A new report from Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald says an National Security Agency program collects ‘nearly everything a user does on the internet.’
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Whatever happened to the sequester, the loudmouths at kids’ baseball games, a fortune in assisted living, should Reddit be held responsible for a smear, and what Northfield’s got that your town doesn’t. Read more →
These are the faces behind NPR’s political voices. Don Gonyea, Scott Horsley and Brian Naylor are taking part in the Des Moines Register’s annual bike ride across Iowa — RAGBRAI. They said they wanted to see the Iowa they missed while covering the presidential caucuses in the 2012 campaign. You can follow their exploits on Read more →
Helen Thomas died this morning. She was no friend of a lot of sitting presidents; she asked tough questions. President Bush refused to call on her for that reason. She once went three years without being able to ask a question.
On the cover of the Rolling Stone, the rise of the baseball scorecard, why can’t a lemonade stand just be a lemonade stand, a step toward racial equality in Saint Paul, and the return of the bookmobile. Read more →
A ban on the United States delivering government-originated programming directly to its citizens has been quietly lifted and the Twin Cities Somali audience is one reason why. Read more →
Small-town newspaper fold because there aren’t enough people who care about people’s dreams and the places they’re going. Read more →
A San Francisco area TV station is getting an unwarranted free pass now that the National Transportation Safety Board has acknowledged that a summer intern “confirmed” the names of the pilots in charge of Asiana Flight 214, the one that crashed last week on a San Francisco runway. http://youtu.be/YU2m3xf99R4 The names, of course, were offensive Read more →
If listeners contribute directly to NPR, what happens to local public radio? Read more →
Living with breaking news immediacy, warts and all. Read more →
Republicans are more likely to get the majority of their news from TV. Democrats favor newspapers.
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