Shot In The Dark: Linked To Partisanship

May 26, 2005

Linked To Partisanship

In Nick Coleman's snide little sideswipe at bloggers yesterday, he sniffed:

The guest list was dominated by self-described "new media" activists whose reliably partisan views have earned them links on the home page of the Minnesota Republican Party.

Damn. Busted. Our views are "reliably partisan", and so we get linked by the GOP.

I guess we don't qualify as objective!

So let's look over at DFLers.org, the official blog of the Minnesota DFL party. Who gets linked?

The Star-Tribune! Along with a bunch of other "reliably partisan" bloggers (Blogumentary, BushOut.TV, Centrisity, Chris Dykstra, Civil Liberties Watch, Mark Dayton Blog, MN Republican Watch, Minnesota Progress, Minnesota Politics, Moderate Left, Twin Cities Babelogue)!

What's the point? Just this - that for Nick Coleman, "morning drive" "host" at the local FrankenNet affiliate to call himself an "objective" "journalist" (as if that itself is not a contradiction in terms) is not as comical as any of us NARN bloggers trying to plead objectivity; it's more ludicrous. None of us have ever made bones about our point of view; Coleman flits about behind the thin fiction of having been a "journalist" to allege objectivity.

We're honest. He should try it.

By the way, DFLers.com staff; you list the "Fargo Forum" under "Minnesota Media". Technically, Fargo is in this state called "North Dakota". It's found waaaay west of Lyndale Avenue. Look it up.

Thanks to commenter "Knowledge Worker", from yesterday's thread on the subject, for noticing.

Posted by Mitch at May 26, 2005 06:48 PM | TrackBack

Comments

Re: Fargo Forum

As a sometime resident of an oft-forgotten appendage of Fargo (Moorhead, MN), I have to say that you got this one wrong. Originally, I only thought this because the Forum is the newspaper of Moorhead, too, hence it is "Minnesota Media" in a very real sense. I also planned to make a snarky comment about the height of the Red River determining which state the newspaper is in this week.

While looking for the address of the building (the joke works better if you can show how close it is to the Red), I found the history of the Forum on the official website of the Forum Communications Co. (http://www.forumcomm.com/history.html ). It seems that the correct name of the paper is now "The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead" (even though everyone still calls it the Fargo Forum). Sounds like it should be considered "Minnesota Media" by most people, even though the building is in Fargo.

(Oh, and the building is about three blocks from the river, so it would take a _really_ big flood.)

Posted by: Doug Sundseth at May 26, 2005 03:58 PM