Associated Press

MinnPost’s David Brauer takes the Star Tribune to task today for failing to credit Minnesota Public Radio on an MPR story that the Strib got via the Associated Press. Irony alert: Frustrated by just such uncredited swiping, the Strib banned local media from picking up its stories via AP earlier this year. Double-irony alert: Yesterday, [...]

It’s apparently hard for reporters to find an ordinary voter to comment on the extraordinary struggle over Minnesota’s vacant U.S. Senate seat. The latest example: The Associated Press cited one person — who didn’t vote for either Al Franken or Norm Coleman — in its story Monday about Minnesotans being “tired” of the Senate battle. [...]

The Jan. 1 edition of the Star Tribune ran two versions of the same AP story (with only slight variations) about well-known businesses going bankrupt: one inside the A section and the other on the cover of the Business section. It’s overkill and an oversight to be sure, but hey, to err is human, [...]

Though thousands marched through the streets of St. Paul today without incident, it was difficult to ignore a roving group of protesters who were sometimes marching and sometimes dashing their way through a parade route they reinvented by the minute. Minnesota Independent’s Jeff Severns Guntzel followed them to the day’s chemical-soaked climax.

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The Associated Press profiles Republican blogger Michael Brodkorb today, praising his two “direct hits” on Al Franken over the Democratic senate candidate’s tax problems. The piece by Patrick Condon says that Brodkorb “shrugs off Democrats’ claims that he’s a Republican operative by saying he’s never been paid to blog.” The Minnesota [...]