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Media Monitor: Of flags, sex and ballast water

By Paul Schmelzer | 05.14.08 | 1:34 pm

A day late on inconsequential news: When MinMon’s Tom Elko blogged about Tim Pawlenty’s joke on WCCO about not gettin’ any, it took off: Wonkette linked us up and off it went: it…

Rift rises: Twin Cities culture sites to launch newspaper

By Paul Schmelzer | 04.30.08 | 10:02 am

Print news is in such famously bad shape that Advertising Age is running “The Newspaper Death Watch,” which quotes an expert who gives an industry in “terminal decline” 20 to 25 years to live. In this…

Media Monitor: Metromix sneak peek, EPpies and an Ohmigod moment

By Paul Schmelzer | 04.29.08 | 3:34 pm

KARE’s Vita.mn? The Deets offers a sneak peek of the new events site Metromix, apparently KARE-11′s answer to Vita.mn, which launches tomorrow. [Tangent: How many sneak peeks has Ed Kohler scored?

CJ’s Vita.mn Audition?

By Paul Schmelzer | 09.03.07 | 3:02 pm

Perhaps there’s an opening at Vita.mn? Back in June, Star Tribune reader’s representative Kate Parry, responding to complaints about a story on outdoor sex that ran in its freestanding weekly, asked, “Does it really

Mandatory News Blogging — and the Strib’s ‘Drunk Uncle’

By Paul Schmelzer | 06.20.07 | 10:41 am

Time for Blogging: As the Star Tribune’s Big Question undergoes a change — with Eric Black gone, D.J. Tice resurfaced with an alert on the blog’s uncertain future and a site “Administrator” offers a belated post

The Vita.mn Cover That Keeps Giving

By Paul Schmelzer | 06.18.07 | 9:34 am

Lowest com.mn denominator? The Vita.mn cover story that got folks humping mad last week because of its illustration of mating ladybugs apparently drew ire at the Star Tribune from readers who stumbled upon a link on the paper’s home…

Humping Bugs, Paris Hilton, and Other News That’s Fit to Print

By Paul Schmelzer | 06.12.07 | 9:54 am

A leg up? Or plagiarism? Taking aim at what it calls a “faux-alternative” weekly, City Pages accuses Vita.MN of “visual plagiarism” for its new cover that illustrates a story on outdoor sex with…

Media Monitor: April 26 — The Rot and Beyond

By Paul Schmelzer | 04.25.07 | 9:10 pm

Losing Pulse: The Twin Cities is losing another alternative newspaper: the decade-old weekly Pulse, founded in the same year the Twin Cities Reader was shut down, will cease publishing, the Star Tribune reports. Publisher Ed Felein informed staff…