Comments on: Can we ‘presume’ the Star Tribune prefers Coleman over Franken?

By: John Krogstad

John Krogstad — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:05:05 +0000

Can we ‘presume’ the Minnesota Independent prefers Fraken over Coleman?

By: Joel Rosenberg

Joel Rosenberg — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:27:42 +0000

Is it somehow news that the Star Tribune isn’t a very good paper, and hasn’t been, for years? Nah. It’s not the Avista takeover; it sucked before.

What is news is that, for whatever reason, in this (rare) case the slant is unfavorable to the guy on the left. And, yeah, it has a conservative columnist. Wow.

As to its endorsement of Coleman being a “reversal,” well, not so much. The paper preferred Mondale over Coleman and Coleman over Franken.

By: Comeupance Sweet

Comeupance Sweet — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:34:01 +0000

From dissent to descent, the StarTrib ain’t your daddy’s beacon of journalism; since Avista takeover its sadly become a Corporate-Fascist-Propaganda -Mouth-Organ masquerading as “objective” news. Once the Senate race went into the general election, the mask came off. Online readers began howling for a semblance of fairness on the Strib’s own website, questioning their slanted language, weird story angles, and illogical editorial stances. The corruption of the paper was questioned until suddenly one day when it all came to a screeching halt. A new posting policy quietly appeared, and suddenly the posts tuned pablum. Arbitrarily, posts questioning the Strib’s coverage disappeared:
“Comments are subject to the site’s terms of use and do not necessarily reflect the opinion or approval of the Star Tribune. Readers whose comments violate the terms of use may have their comments removed or all of their content blocked from viewing by other users without notification.”

By: taconite12

taconite12 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:37:58 +0000

errrrr, just NOT worth it.

By: taconite12

taconite12 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:37:28 +0000

The comments over there are just filled with idiotic trolls. I wanted to find some good discussion about real issues, even minutia, and it’s just worth it. Mindless repetition of talking points, falsehoods, and name-calling. Sad, really.

By: Brix Smith

Brix Smith — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:35:41 +0000

It’s a continual source of embarrassment that a city once known for its smarts is represented in print by that bird cage liner.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:23:37 +0000

Do the right thing — cancel your Strib subscription & don’t buy single copies. Can you believe a major American newspaper giving a voice to a craven little cynical button-pusher like Katherine Kersten!!?? The Strib has decided to narrow-band target their Republican suburban readership (’Faith & Values’? are you shitting me? imagine the Times trying to pull that!). The paper has become ‘Tradin’ Times’ with AP news stories and syndicated op ed columns. Outrageous.

By: Rob Levine

Rob Levine — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:45:03 +0000

This has been going on for many years.

By: Eric Ferguson

Eric Ferguson — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:43:50 +0000

The editorials took a lurch right when Avista took over. I’m not so sure that’s true of the news. DJ Tice was already political editor. I do wonder what the effect was of laying off so many senior staff. Also, we have to be careful to differentiate between the articles and the headlines, which have different writers.

By: Lazercat

Lazercat — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:18:01 +0000

With sneaky corporate control of our newspapers, get used to only hearing what the corporations want you to hear.