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Yesterday Aaron Landry at MnPublius noticed that Norm Coleman’s latest campaign ad, a testimonial from former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Sandy Keith, violates a law that requires a four-second authorization tag at the end of campaign commercials. Break it and you’re supposed to forfeit your statutory entitlement to the deeply discounted rates that politicians [...]

Community radio in the Twin Cities will get a big boost this summer as both Radio K and KFAI have received FCC approval for increased signals.

Volunteer-based KFAI will convert its two frequencies (90.3, 106.7 FM) into one digital signal at 90.3 FM and replace its current 30-watt transmitter with a 900-watt directional antenna on top [...]

In “Rich Media, Poor Democracy,” communications scholar Bob McChesney wrote about how democracy tends to be the first casualty in the collision of big media and big money. As keynote speaker at the Nov. 3 Citizen Media Forum put on by Twin Cities Media Alliance, he continued the theme in a discussion about “journalism’s freefall” [...]

Duluth meteorologist calls Gore a “left-wing nut.” As a scientist, you might think Karl Spring would have an informed opinion on Al Gore’s work on climate change. He’s got opinions, but they don’t come from watching the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s film “An Inconvenient Truth.” In a discussion about global warming on Wisconsin Public Radio’s [...]