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Brit Hume, who has faced some backlash over his statements about Tiger Woods in recent days, will be headlining a dinner for the Center for the American Experiment, a conservative think tank, according to an email from the group. The event, headlined by the Fox News analyst and talk show host, will be held May [...]

This is some extremely shoddy journalism from Mickey Kaus. The Slate blogger asks if “ACORN chicanery” elected Sen. Al Franken, who won a razor-thin 2008 race for the U.S. Senate after eight months of legal challenges. Kaus links a “tactfully phrased Minneapolis Star Tribune story” to argue that fraudulent votes might have stolen the election [...]

After a several-month hiatus, Katherine Kersten’s lightning rod-conservatism is back at the Star Tribune, and her edgy, faith-tinged opinion hasn’t failed to disappoint those looking for controversy.
Her Sunday-only column this week took aim at atheism and what she perceives as its detrimental impact on society. She argues that without faith in God, people have no [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota filed suit Wednesday against Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy and the Minnesota Department of Education alleging a violation of the separation between church and state. TIZA was at the center of a media storm last year after the Star Tribune’s Katherine Kersten wrote an inflammatory commentary alleging religious instruction at the taxpayer-funded school. ACLU-MN investigated the allegations and in court documents filed in U.S. District Court said the Muslim organizations from which TIZA leases its space are illegally benefiting from the leasing arrangement.

With the Star Tribune possibly within two weeks of filing bankruptcy (according to newsroom Guild sources), we’re seeing yet another wave of big-name departures at the Strib: columnist Katherine Kersten, online managing editor Will Tacy and web designer Jaime Chismar, among others. But curiously, if you’re on the microblogging service Twitter, you might get the [...]

This morning, conservative Star Tribune columnist Katherine Kersten started saying her goodbyes, informing readers of her blog that her “Think Again” blog and print column are being discontinued. (Apparently she isn’t interested in staying on as a reporter.) “I’ve been informed that my services as a columnist are no longer needed at the Star Tribune,” [...]

MinnPost’s David Brauer, who has documented the financial woes at the Star Tribune better than anyone, writes that a memo went out at the paper today revealing that the paper’s conservative and liberal columnists, Katherine Kersten and Nick Coleman, may be losing their columns. Both can keep jobs at the paper as reporters. Brauer writes, [...]

An assortment of media tidbits: The Duluth News Tribune slims down, Katherine Kersten is praised as an “investigative journalist,” and an accidentally apropos Star Tribune front page on Black Friday.

As Minneapolis’ NEED magazine gets new life after a January burglary, an old standby of progressive news, the link aggregator Cursor.org, goes on hiatus. Meanwhile circulation sinks again at the Star Tribune as Media Matters questions the timing of its editor’s decree about columnists refraining from partisanship.

A round-up of media, new and old: YouTube partners with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to give a $10,000 reporting prize, while the Star Tribune’s Teamsters again vote down contract concessions. Also: Outrage over a newspaper liveblogging a funeral and key context as the Strib’s Katherine Kersten again targets a Muslim school.