Chuck Olsen

Jon Stewart’s monocular endorsement of the Utne Reader has inspired a new video promoting the magazine. Chuck Olsen of The UpTake and MNStories has outfitted Utne staffers, including High Times-reading editor David Schimke and Paranoia-perusing Jeff Severns Guntzel with the single lens spectacles… all in reference to a Daily Show gag in which a similarly [...]

Al Franken may have written for and performed on “Saturday Night Live!” but his campaign has apparently pulled the plug on allowing live video from its now-daily press conferences about Minnesota’s statewide recount. For the last two days, the independent media outlet The Uptake has made video of the press events available on the Web [...]

This afternoon, videographer Chuck Olsen of The UpTake held a “press event” (pictured above) in response to another refusal by Sen. Norm Coleman’s campaign to allow an UpTake reporter into a public campaign event. This is the third time this fall Coleman’s campaign has barred entry to an official event without explanation.

While the Minnesota Independent and The UpTake were barred entry from Sen. Norm Coleman’s “press availability” today, Star Tribune columnist Nick Coleman made it inside and gave The UpTake’s Chuck Olsen first word about what went on. Sen. Coleman said he’ll no longer run negative attack ads, but the topic of who’s buying his suits [...]