Biting Commentary and Par’s -30-

End of story: Wednesday’s offering at the Star Tribune blog, Yesterday’s News, brings back a 1927 Minneapolis Daily Star story about the purchase of the St. Paul paper by the Ridder family, which started a “long and profitable association” that was “an enduring source of civic and journalistic pride.” The current chapter of that history isn’t so charmed, poster Ben Welter seems to suggest. He addresses Par Ridder’s jump from the Pioneer Press to the competition with wonderful understatement — “things did not go well for him” — and concludes by referencing the printer’s symbol for “end of story“:

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Rybak bites back: Freed from her “mainstream media muzzle,” former Strib writer Deborah Rybak — or at least someone using that handle — can now speak freely about what she thinks of those who suggest her last name affected the neutrality of her reporting. “Bite me,” wrote the admittedly “acidic” Rybak in an MNspeak comment thread. “I had a journalism career long before I ever married a Rybak… [I]f you can find an article or an opinion piece where I have conveyed some sort of ‘lefty’ credentials–or any political slant at all–please post here.” To date, no such pieces have appeared.

No DC MPR station: MPR parent company American Public Media won’t be buying up a Washington-area Christian music station after all. WGTS, owned and operated by Columbia Union College (a school affiliated with the Seventh Day Adventists), has been taken off the market by its board of trustees. APM had reportedly offered $20 million for the station; listeners and some employees petitioned against the sale.

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