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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: Media

Revisiting the Radiolab interview

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 23, 2012, 3:06 PM Oct 23, 2012
9

What really happened in a national radio interview with a Hmong family from Brooklyn Center?

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You are editor: Taking sides at a concert

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 15, 2012, 4:09 PM Oct 15, 2012
4

Locked-out musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra are holding a concert. If journalists attend, are they taking sides?

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1,000 words: What are you looking at, kid?

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 10, 2012, 10:57 AM Oct 10, 2012
2

A foolish picture becomes the political conspiracy of the day.

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Overweight anchor: ‘It’s not a weight issue.’

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 3, 2012, 10:37 AM Oct 3, 2012
14

Jennifer Livingston hits the TV news shows, after her editorial about being overweight.

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Can TV anchors be obese?

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 2, 2012, 1:22 PM Oct 2, 2012
13

A letter to an overweight TV anchor becomes an anti-bullying rally cry.

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Regional history

Why the RadioLab interview went wrong

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 27, 2012, 1:39 PM Sep 27, 2012
25

The Public Radio show, RadioLab, heard on MPR on Saturday afternoons, is getting significant pushback for its handling of an interview with a Hmong veteran in the Twin Cities on last weekend’s broadcast.

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What people care about

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 26, 2012, 9:38 AM Sep 26, 2012

A report shows the difficulty mass media has in tailoring its news to a wide audience — the wide audience have vastly different opinions on what is news.

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Fox and friends and comedians

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 17, 2012, 12:41 PM Sep 17, 2012
5

It doesn’t take much to get on Fox and Friends.

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You Are Editor: What to do with ‘racist’ comments?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 14, 2012, 10:51 AM Sep 14, 2012
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When should comments someone might see as racist find their way into the news?

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Arts & Culture · People doing good

The USA one story at a time

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 11, 2012, 1:40 PM Sep 11, 2012
4

Five people, living together in a bus, are traveling the country for a year in search of people doing good things.

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A victory for free speech

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 20, 2012, 11:23 AM Aug 20, 2012
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The importance of today’s decision is that had it gone another way, and the original verdict survived, future courts would have a good reason to expand the infringement of speech that is unpopular.

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Statistics undercut complaints about NBC Olympic coverage

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 2, 2012, 2:03 PM Aug 2, 2012
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Sometimes what people say they want, isn’t really what they want. NBC knew that.

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NBC feels Twitter’s Olympic wrath

Paul TostoPaul Tosto July 30, 2012, 10:15 AM Jul 30, 2012
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Americans have ranted for decades about tape delays and overseas Olympics. We want to see stuff as it happens. But the network that pays a king’s ransom for the broadcast rights makes its money showing the high demand events during American prime time. Network wins. That used to be the end of the discussion. Not Read more →

What one man can do in a big media company

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 20, 2012, 12:00 PM Jul 20, 2012
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Good people have come and good people have gone but there’s one person — and only one person — who’s been a part of MPR.org since the day he started.

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Is this man the next Garrison Keillor?

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 10, 2012, 1:15 PM Jul 10, 2012
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I won’t keep you in suspense; I don’t know. But a news release from American Public Media today, coupled with the occasional remark from Garrison Keillor that he might retire will certainly lead to speculation that John Moe, pictured, might be the answer to a question that media observers have been asking for years: What’s Read more →

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