One of the worst kept secrets at this weekend’s National Conference for Media Reform at the Minneapolis Convention Center is that Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News show sent a crew to record the “real nuts” who are advocating for…
Groundbreaking citizen-based media group The UpTake announced the relaunch of its website today. The UpTake focuses on training and assisting citizen journalists in reporting the political news of the day and becoming an engaged part…
Smart Politics’ Eric Ostermeier discussed Minnesota Monitor’s content, audience and influence with news editor Steve Perry in a recent interview. However, one of Ostermeier’s questions prompted City Pages’ Jeff Shaw to weigh in with a post…
The media landscape in the Twin Cities has changed dramatically over the last year, and that’s exactly why the organizers of the upcoming
Balancing the federal budget may not sound like fun and games for most people, but American Public Media (APM) is looking to change that. APM has released a new news game, called Budget…
There’s something mordantly funny about watching the stenographers and voice talent of the Washington press corps fulminate about Scott McClellan’s admissions regarding the paper-thin pretexts on which the Iraq War was sold by the White House. You…
George Packer’s 8600-word opus on the Republican party’s purported failure of vision from last week’s New Yorker is probably the most widely read big-picture analysis of either party circa 2008 that anyone has produced so far.…
We pointed out here a month ago that Hillary Clinton’s remaining chance at the Democratic nomination depended on either a catastrophic scandal or a bullet. Today she brought up the assassination scenario herself in a meeting with…
Yesterday I wrote that the Strib’s Minnesota Poll on the US Senate race was the first survey by any organization to include Mike Ciresi in its questionnaire since Ciresi dropped out of the race on March…
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