Greg Mitchell

Bellwetherman? In an email Thursday about its campaign opposing the governor’s bonding bill vetoes, the Alliance for a Better Minnesota used a bizarre example as proof of an ailing economy’s effect on working Minnesotans: the firing of weatherman Paul Douglas (whose salary is estimated variously at between $250k and $500k). “Many families across Minnesota have [...]

The Project for Excellence in Journalism has published a telling chart that measures the steady decline in media coverage of the Iraq War since the start of 2007. One culprit: the presidential sweepstakes. “In the last quarter of 2007,” write Tricia Sartor and Mark Jurkowitz, “coverage of the war diminished as coverage of another major [...]