Media Monitor: Of flags, sex and ballast water
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…
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…
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…
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?
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…