Deep-sixing the STRIB is a great idea. I gave them "the plunge" shortly after 9/11, when the STRIB published several editorials explaining that the death of the 3,000 innocents on 9/11 was really my ("our") fault. I disagreed, believing that the perps were the radical Islamic Muslim dirt bags that had learned to hijack and control passenger aircraft. Since then, the STRIB has only become less relevant and more useless as an objective media source. Fortunately most of us have access to other, less offensive news sources. Trust me -- breaking the addictive habit of paging through a newspaper in the evening is easy to do.

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I quit buying years ago...I use to buy every Sunday edition (mainly for the NYT crossword, the travel section and to read the "letters to the editors"). Now I read the letters online (just to get my blood pressure up apparently)...and that's it.

The Minneapolis Star Tribune editorial board: Traitors and socialists.

The Minneapolis StarTribune is a seditious newspaper and has been for decades. As for the op-ed pages, a person might as well be reading Pravda in the 1950's, as the content and the methodology is nearly identical. That today's readership hardly recognizes that fact is evidence of the extent to which such subversive propaganda has been successful.

Good for the NARN and best wishes, but what is really needed in Minnesota is a new newspaper entirely, one that more accurately reflects the common values of people living in this state. When the Washington Times began to compete with the Washington Post, the general consensus was that, being as it was owned by the Moonies, it would land on the deck and flop like a fish out of water. Instead, because the WashTimes satisfied that part of the market not being served, the WaPo, by and large, became a more responsible newspaper.

Build it, and they will come.

I had superentendent Thandiwe Peebles on my radio show today "Talk Education." I dropped the STrib years and years ago....but decided to get a temporary log on to get the papers' articles on her!

Wow, what a contrast between her and the articles. Somebody is definetly not telling it straight. Between the Union and the Trib I wish Mpls. and Minnesota Public Schools good luck.... talk about some vicious people working hard to make sure education does not work but rather is simply a means of unending taxpayers waste.

I've decided not to participate. Subscribing to the Star Tribune only to cancel my subscription would, I think, not be very productive.

But if I had subscribed, I would certainly have been in on it. The First Amendment guarantees their right to do lousy, biased reporting (as they often, but not always, do; Confrad deFiebre did a perfectly good story on the reinstated MCPPA today, which is remarkable for its absence of inaccuracy and malice, in a "Dog Doesn't Bite Man, Contrary to What Usually happens" sort of sense). Citizens -- and others -- have the right to decline to support them.

I gave up on the "Red Star and Liberal Tribune" approximately 5 years ago. Not only did I not miss the "rag" but I found real and accurate news from better sources, without having to be preached to by an organization that assumes to know what citizens of this area believe. I occasionally (maybe twice a year) pick up a copy of section A in a restaurant and find the drivel is aging like limburger cheese, with it's stench growing exponentially. Miss it?? "