Category: Media
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Kackalot
It’s not so much that the Democrats assume you’re stupid. It’s that…: …they desperately need you to be stupid. Not just a little stupid, either: If America elects this clacque, it deserves to collapse. Ron DeSantis has entered the chat:
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Whores, Cretins, Charlatans. OK!
No matter how much you hate the mainstream media, you don’t hate them enough. “Even the local ones?” Especially the local ones: I mean, it’s still right there online, for feck’s sake: The theory is, democracy can not survive without an indepdendent media. I’m starting to think that’s the point.
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‘Til The Last Man (?)
Give the NYTImes points for consistency, I guess. They committed to this eight years ago.
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Comment Neither Needed Nor Provided
The jokes… …pretty much write themselves these days.
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Sanitized
So the Strib is on the news like a Grateful Dead fan on that last bag of Fritos: “Democrats in Minnesota and US ignored voter concerns about Biden’s age”. That, they did. But… …but… …isn’t there something missing? Like, maybe the Star Tribune? MPR News? The Four, the Five, the Nine and the Eleven? Did…
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Better Late Than Never
Snopes finally admits something conservative media has been saying for seven years and change: Not sure what it was that prompted them to cough up the truth. Perhaps because, at least among the opinion-making class, the damage is done and irrecoverable; in this case, “Journalist” Christopher Ingraham of the MN Reformer: He’s one of the…
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A Little Unfair
The “CrimeWatchMpls” twitter account – which is one of the few actual accurate and current sources of information on crime in Minneapolis – found a photo of a group of Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) staffers with their recent awards from the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). You might say that crowd doesn’t look especially diverse.…
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The New Political Geography
Perhaps you heard – conservatives won big in EU elections last weekend. You might have missed it, because the news only referred to “the far right” – as if Francisco Franco were back from the dead. Indeed, it’s yet another term that today’s left have rendered meaningless: Let not pretend this is accidental. Big Left…
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His Master’s Voice
The Strib’s editorial cartoonist accidentally took a chunk out of DFL policy. And that could not be tolerated: That’s right – Grove apologizes to the DFL for his paper telling the truth. Heads will no doubt roll.
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Chanting Points Memo: The Law
To: The MN DFLFrom: Mitch Berg, Deplorable PeasantRe: Positioning w/r/t “The Law” DFL, The other day, your social media intern reiterated a chanting point the entire left was prattling lasdt week: “Nobody’s above the law” – with the apparent exception of the following: Circumstantial evidence indicates they are, indeed, “above the law” . That is…
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Open Letter To MPR’s Jon Collins: Year 4
To: Jon Collins, Senior Reporter on Race, Class and Communities, MInnesota Public RadioFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous PeasantRe: Anniversary + Findings Mr. Collins, As I have every year since 2021, I hope this day finds you well. It was four years ago yesterday you sent this out on your listener mailing list:: “South Minneapolis: I know…
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Religious Radio
The worst part about last week’s news about long-time National Public Radio (NPR) editor Uri Berliner’s tell all about the network’s, uh, systemic bias toward the left isn’t the bias itself (and if you haven’t read Berliner’s entire article, you should). We all knew that; it was obvious on issue after issue: It’s not that…
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An Intellectual Palate Cleanser
Sunny Hostin on The View: Climate Change caused the eclipse, has brought out the cicadas: I wonder what “intellectual self-defense” looks like, legally? Because this woman is an immediate danger of destroying or gravely injuring the national intellect.
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Twenty Reporters Walk Into A Bar, Over And Over And Over…
As we noted yesterday, the sports bar “A Bar Of Their Own” – which opened on March 1 to paeons of praise and wall-to-wall coverage from local media – has a unique-ish marketing hook; the TVs are all tuned to womens sports. That’s all well and good. I support anyone and everyone bringing a new…
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Preview: Twenty Reporters Walk Into A Bar, Over And Over And Over…
Perhaps you’ve heard – there’s a sports bar in Minneapolis that focuses on women’s sports. And heard. And heard. And heard some more. Now, don’t get me wrong – I wish “A Bar Of Their Own” all the best. I wish pretty much any private-sector business kills it in the market; I’m with pretty much…
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PhD Thesis On Berg’s Seventh Law
Remember during the oil boom in North Dakota? When the Strib and every prog pundit with a blog was patronizingly intoning how dangerous all that unseemly oil money was going to be for all the hayseeds out on the prairie? When our cultural elites prowled the prairie looking for the evil that lies at the…
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Words. Just Words.
SCENE: A (probably) fictional meeting at the StarTribune editorial board. Servants bustle about, gathering cocktail glasses and the picked over remains of lobster from the table. Publisher Steve GROVE presides, as David BANKS, Jill BURCUM, Scott GILLESPIE, Denise JOHNSON, Patricia LOPEZ, John RASH, D.J. TICE and CEO Michael J. KLINGENSMITH slowly focus their attention. GROVE:…
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Journalisming, 2024
“A Bar Of Their Own” has apparently had a good first month, according to this cheerleading press release. Since its inception, enthusiasm has only grown for the tavern with the radical concept of playing only women’s sports on its multiple TVs. The idea was overwhelmingly embraced, from a successful crowdfunding campaign to an opening day…
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Orwell Was A Pollyanna
The NYTimes embraces the Deep State… …that just doesn’t exist.
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If There Were Ever A Time For “Truth In Advertising” Laws With Teeth
The Strib is engaging an ad agency to explore a new name: The media organization has been known as the Star Tribune since 1987, five years after the Minneapolis Tribune and the Minneapolis Daily Star merged to create the Star and Tribune. The rebrand is being overseen by former Google executive Grove, who was appointed CEO and…
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Literal
Exasperated conservatives sometimes refer to the media as “the enemy”. It’s understandable – the media at the editorial and national level is in general a PR firm for Big Left – and accurate in terms of long-term effect. But not since Walter Duranty has it been quite this literally true. Five Israeli families are suing…
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Modern “Journalism” In Action
For those who needed a reminder: As we learned years ago, the Society of Professional Journalists “Code Of Ethics” isn’t a code of ethics; it’s more analogous to the flags on a slalom course; things to be avoided if possible, run over if desired.
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Air Davos
George Soros and his, uh, “activist” investment operation are set to take a controlling interest in Audacy, the nations’ second-largest radio station chain: The Soros investment firm, which is listed alongside other Audacy lenders that are members of the “ad hoc first lien group,” is poised to have its debt converted into Audacy stock as…
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Disappeared
SCENE: It’s a darkened back room at Minnesota DFL headquarters. Ken Martin and an attendant perp-walk a figured in handcuffs with a bag over his head into a room at the faaar back of the building. They sit him down and pull the bag off, revealing Rep. Andy SMITH (chucklehead jagoff, Rochester). DIsoriented, SMITH blinks…
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Let’s Stir Up Another Republic-Threatening Hornets Nest: Part II
Since roughly the 2020 election, I’ve simultaneously: Three points. Imperfection The first point? I made that a few weeks back, when I talked about why I don’t necessairly think “a judge and jury say so” is completely invariably the dispositive last word on any issue. Long story short – judges and juries make mistakes. And…