Media Monitor: May 11

Irregular Pulse: A week before its final issue is scheduled to hit newsstands, Pulse of the Twin Cities fired music editor Steve McPherson and writer Max Sparber, MNSpeak is reporting. McPherson says he was cut “ostensibly for converting this blog from the Pulse Music Blog to Signal Eats Noise, which is patently ludicrous.” He and Sparber, whose last day was scheduled for Tuesday prior to the firing, said they’d built up the site on their own time, without pay from Pulse editor Ed Felein. Oddly, the paper, which announced in late April it was shutting down, is running a Craigslist ad for a managing editor job. Duties for the $20,000 to $23,000 a year position include helping “edit our website.”

VoteVets targets Coleman: In the local version of an ad that got retired Gen. John Batiste fired as a CBS News consultant, VoteVets.org urges Norm Coleman to break with Bush on Iraq. Concluding “Senator Coleman: Protect America, not George Bush,” the ad is running now in Rochester and the Twin Cities.

More on “Black Thursday”: Shoptalk, the Minnesota Newspaper Guild’s website, runs photos from yesterday’s Star Tribune “Black Thursday” rally.

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