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Par’s Mager Investment

By Paul Schmelzer | 11.27.07 | 1:44 pm

In spring 2007, Brian Lambert reported the rumor that Par Ridder, then publisher of the Star Tribune, had purchased the 8,000-square-foot Lake of the Isles mansion once owned by former KARE-11 anchor Paul…

Media Column Slaughtered?

By Paul Schmelzer | 11.27.07 | 1:27 pm

The Daily Mole breaks news that Brian Lambert’s media column at The Rake is no more. Lambert and “To the Slaughter” co-conspirator Deborah Rybak will be starting up a new media blog at Mpls.St.Paul sometime soon.

“They offered…

Free Speech and the MoveOn Ad

By Paul Schmelzer | 09.25.07 | 1:24 pm

Betraying the Constitution: The 72 senators who voted to condemn MoveOn.org’s “General Betrayus” ad betray the Constitution’s protection of free speech, writes former Minnesota Monthly and Star Tribune magazine editor Leonard Witt in…

Paulose? Pelosi? Fox Gets Confused

By Paul Schmelzer | 09.19.07 | 3:38 pm

Paulose or Pelosi? When Republican Mark Foley resigned during the congressional page scandal last September, Fox News three times identified Foley as a Democrat. A glance at the website of the network’s local…

If the Pants Fit…

By Paul Schmelzer | 07.30.07 | 8:35 am

In which a simile, properly employed, offends: Mention George Bush in your media column and you might get kicked in the golf pants. In Friday‘s story about morale at KSTP TV, The Rake’s Brian Lambert invoked the names

Media Monitor: May 25

By Paul Schmelzer | 05.25.07 | 8:07 am

The impertinence of tenacious journalism:  When U.S. Attorney for Minnesota Rachel Paulose stepped up to the podium on Monday for a press conference about the recent prostitution busts in the Twin Cities and Austin, Minn., she laid out her…