Is Minnesota’s Mainstream Media Missing Important Stories?
Tuesday, May 08, 2007 at 11:30 am
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Look on the web for a story about Veterans Affairs administrators getting bonuses of up to $33,000 while the Veterans Affairs Administration faces budget shortfalls and lengthy service backlogs, and you may not easily find it in Minnesota’s mainstream media. But you will find it in some of Minnesota’s blogs, like A Bluestem Prairie, I Don’t Hate America! and Blue Man in a Red District.
While these and other blogs don’t have the resources to do hard-line investigative journalism, they are at least keeping the public informed of possible breaking stories and, in this case, the questionable use of taxpayer dollars. A Bluestem Prairie, writing about the 1st congressional district, notes two mainstream media articles on the VA bonuses
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Comment posted May 9, 2007 @ 11:55 pm
Is it news that the VA is a continuing disaster? How is this a departure from the modus operandi of the VA? They’ve been like this since the late sixties at the very least and under administrations of both parties. And is an ongoing disgrace really “new”s? But if you can get enough of a reaction to the situation to make a change, more power to ya.
Comment posted May 9, 2007 @ 6:55 pm
Is it news that the VA is a continuing disaster? How is this a departure from the modus operandi of the VA? They've been like this since the late sixties at the very least and under administrations of both parties. And is an ongoing disgrace really “new”s? But if you can get enough of a reaction to the situation to make a change, more power to ya.
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