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Can Americans live without political theater?

Bob Collins September 22, 2011, 10:38 AM Sep 22, 2011

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Is the audience capable of more than what the media thinks they are:

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Hospital vs. newspaper over coverage of doctor in Duluth

Bob Collins September 20, 2011, 3:21 PM Sep 20, 2011

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St. Luke’s Hospital has filed suit against the Duluth News Tribune for its report on neurosurgeon Stefan Konasiewicz, who worked at the hospital from 1997 to 2008.

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Silence and the 9/11 coverage

Bob Collins September 13, 2011, 10:44 AM Sep 13, 2011

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NPR listeners object to elements of 9/11 anniversary coverage.

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Eichten’s last fair

Bob Collins September 5, 2011, 5:26 PM Sep 5, 2011

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Some of us are still shocked enough by the recent announcement that MPR News’ legend Gary Eichten is retiring at the end of the year, that we’re not quite prepared for the series of lasts that are about to follow.

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Journalism and the lynch mob mentality

Bob Collins September 2, 2011, 10:53 AM Sep 2, 2011

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The Joe Senser story exposes the ineffectiveness of a policy designed to provide fairness.

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Are we making ‘bad’ worse?

Bob Collins August 30, 2011, 9:02 AM Aug 30, 2011

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Consumer confidence is at its lowest level in more than two years. Is that partially the media’s and politicians’ fault?

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Another girl, another dragon tattoo

dgaraets August 23, 2011, 12:10 PM Aug 23, 2011

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Why do movie companies feel the need to remake perfectly good foreign films?

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Gary Eichten retiring? Tell me another

dgaraets August 22, 2011, 2:55 PM Aug 22, 2011

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A broadcaster delivers the news, and then makes some himself.

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‘Why are you being so weird about this?’

dgaraets August 18, 2011, 12:42 PM Aug 18, 2011

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An author with something to sell meets an interviewer with something to prove.

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Why context matters

Bob Collins August 8, 2011, 2:19 PM Aug 8, 2011

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Finding examples of poor journalism is like shooting fish in a barrel today, what with the stock market meltdown and all.

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Market meltdown: Stock traders looking worried

Bob Collins August 8, 2011, 11:24 AM Aug 8, 2011

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One question: If the stock market is so all-fire important to everyone, how come news organizations can only figure out one kind of photograph when covering it?

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Is the news media making the market meltdown worse?

Bob Collins August 8, 2011, 11:05 AM Aug 8, 2011

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Is the media properly reporting the gloom, or adding to it?

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The secret of how talk show callers get on the air

Bob Collins August 3, 2011, 3:13 PM Aug 3, 2011

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Even without looking, I can tell that the nation’s radio station producers were rolling their eyes while listening to a complaint from a caller on today’s Talk of the Nation.

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