Media Monitor: TROLLS — and a Strib debt-relief plea

Strib asks for forbearance: The Star Tribune has asked creditors “to delay its debt payments for six months while it cuts costs and tries to rescue its ailing balance sheet,” the NY Post reports. Creditors reportedly aren’t fond of idea: they want owner Avista Capital Partners to ante up $50 million of new equity into the enterprise before the paper gets any concessions. MinnPost’s David Brauer offers a note of caution about the report: The Post “has overreached in the past” — like last month when the paper reported, and later backpedaled on, news that Avista had failed to meet its debt obligations.

Political discourse these days… Wonkette editor Ken Layne writes a rousing screed about political blogging: “[I]t doesn’t matter at all what I write about, because the comments will be an insane half-literate string of racist nonsense and startling ignorance that has nothing to do with the subject of this post. Don’t even bother reading the rest, just get to the comments and start pasting in your all-caps screaming lunacy.”

Is Facebook killing the college alumni mag? A surprisingly fascinating  New York Times story on the internet, college fundraising and alumni relations.