Minnpost’s Blog Cabin the new blog police?

Who died and made this guy king? “Blog Cabin”, hah, Minn Post “All the news printed to fit by washed up dead -enders” that brought us Tim P., Coleman and the rest of the 40% republicans that
rule like they have a super majority because of the like of Parr Ridder and the rest of the lies and distortion generating corporate media.

You won’t get any real news from the Minn Post except about how it would be great to have new stadiums, support the war in Ira{q}{n}-istan and how we can’t have health care but must give trillion$ to Wall Street without actually taking over the banks and arresting the criminals, because that would be socialism. These guys (mostly) all got canned but still chirp the same old corporate tune, hoping for a couple of crumbs from the table of Richie Rich. Feh, Blog Cabin, better to shove Minn Post
through the wood chipper a la “Fargo”, us not so silent swedes are tired of there inane chatter.

Yikes, gang -

As a MinnPoster some who covers, quotes, loves and occasionally criticizes local poliblogs, I think I qualify as a fan. One of the things I like most about what they do is holding people with power accountable.

But if someone dares suggest he might critique blogs – which deservedly are becoming powers through hard work – he’s held up as A) a fascist (like he’s the only voice in town) and B) absolutely out of bounds.

Call me a dead-ender, but it seems hypocritical, especially from folks who dish out plenty of sharp-edged judgments.

Odd that it is the lefty bloggers that erupt into outrage over the prospect of someone doing a bit of fact checking; or is it?

Since icecycle is so concerned about fact checking, let’s turn the spotlight on some of Minnpost’s reporting.

For instance, MinnPost recently reported that Congressman Walz had been a command sergeant major in the in the Air National Guard. Not so: he was in the Army National Guard.

Earlier, an entire MinnPost column was based on the premise that Madia and Sarvi were congressional candidates in the Walz mode because they, like Walz, were Iraq War combat vets. Not so: Walz was stationed in Italy in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, American’s mission in Afghanistan. The column was revised when this error of fact was pointed out. Walz has never claimed to be an Iraq War vet, though Republican have repeatedly made this claim when media venues misreport the fact.

And the homonym error in the first Blog Cabin post (”peak” for “peek”; the original version is preserved here by Mr. Birkey and at BSP) has now been corrected.

So, Mr. Brauer, perhaps it’s Mr. Blog Cabin’s holier-than-thou proclamation of his mission to scold bloggers to standards MinnPost doesn’t maintain for itself that has triggered the scorn. But hiring someone to chase after unpaid bloggers such as myself–that’s some genuine journalistic courage.

Ollie, I suspect that a lot of TradMed types see blogging as a soft racket where fact-checking and spell-checking need not be done, yet civility (at least on the part of anyone to the left of Katherine Kersten) must be upheld.

Meeeow! Lefty blogger cat fight!

You guys really don’t hesitate to throw each other under the bus, do you?

You were the one who was defending MinnPost, icecycle. Your pivot in the second comment in a lovely example of a conservative sticking to principles. Thanks.

What it comes down to is bloggers have a right to moderate what gets posted on their blog. If someone can’t live with that or persuade the moderator to change he policy, there’s the option of not posting on that blog. Any of us can start our own blog if we feel particular about how moderating is done. Given how nasty comments get attributed to the blog or the site instead of the commenter, it makes sense to moderate.

Ollie, you misread my comment completely (Odd? Or is it?).

I wasn’t defending anyone. I was just making the observation that the cry and hue was reserved to the left-o-sphere. I have complete confidence in the right’s ability to withstand the withering scrutiny of “MinnPosts” watchdog.

“TradMed”? Uh, OK…no comment.

Please continue ripping one an other to shreds.

Icecycle–a little fact checking about what you wrote:

“Odd that it is the lefty bloggers that erupt into outrage over the prospect of someone doing a bit of fact checking; or is it?”

Yeah, that wasn’t about fact checkingt. Probably best not to bait and switch your own arguments in a single thread. You might end up misreading your own comments.

Yeah that Silent Swede has it all wrong Minn Post is not a bunch of dead-enders they are more
like zombies that rechew that fat from the NY Times and WashPo they call brains and try to
shove it down our local throats, just as they did when they were in the majors.

So busy editing but no real news. When Minn Post breaks a Blagojevich on T-Paw or Coleman
and his Nasser-K deals let me know. Time to take dead-pool bets on the Minn Post, burn rate must
be flaming hot and zombies hate fire.

“Yeah, that wasn’t about fact checking.”

Well, at the risk of belaboring an obvious point, Ollie; you said: “Since icecycle is so concerned about fact checking, let’s turn the spotlight on some of Minnpost’s reporting.”

Sometimes I guess one can’t help but rub another’s nose into it, can one?

You opened by stating that the fear on the left was about factchecking. Can’t be accountable at all, can you?

David Brauer, center-left pundit and columnist, reaches out to a bunch of leftybloggers (at a lefty propaganda site) with reasonable point, and gets mau-maued.

Question, David: Would Justin consider the above “Harsh”, or is he too busy parsing Michael Brodkorb’s latest for signs of pique?

I know, I know – Justin can speak for himself.

If it is the real Mitch Berg, neo-con nutso,
then we know what his politics are. Brauer? we know who pays him. So why don’t you just stick to posting love letters to Bachmann-Palin and re-vomit the Cheney-Limbaugh oxycontin-speak
in your chemical smeared blur of reality.