Shot in the Dark

Category: Media

  • Like It Never Happened

    You will search the Strib in vain for any mention of the fallout from Ilhan Omar’s speech, in which she basically told a Somali audience that she was there to uphold their side’s interests in an ongoing squabble with Ethiopia. Now, normally you need to go to the London Daily Mail. So the fact that…

  • I Come Not To Praise The Atlantic, But To Pelt It With Rocks And Garbage

    Old and Busted: “The rising tide raises all boats” New Flava: “Decline and stagnation is not just good – it’s courageous“

  • We Don’t Need No Water, Let That Agenda-Driven Corrupt Mouthpiece Of Big Left Burn

    The LATimes – one of our corrupt activist agenda-whore media’s worst offenders – is taking a weed-whacker to the “news” room. The other members of the club are squirting tears: “If you care about journalism…” You mean, “journalism” like this? If you care about journalism, bring a **c**n* bulldozer and some gasoline.

  • The Real Victims

    SCENE: Mitch BERG is leaving a guitar shop on Selby Avenue after dropping off an instrument for some repairs, when MyLyssa SILBERMAN, reporter for National Public Radio’s Saint Paul bureau, covering the “Fake News” and “Diversity” beats, steps out of a chi-chi coffee shop. SILBERMAN: Merg. BERG: Oh, hey, MyLyssa… SILBERMAN: Terrible, what’s going on…

  • Promotions

    I’ve been in Twin Cities radio off and on for a good chunk of the past three decades. And truth be told, this is the first time I’ve seen a promotional campaign that says… …that someone is still alive.

  • I Read Deena Winter In The “Minnesota Reformer” So You Don’t Have To

    Earlier this week, the Minnesota Reformer – a news outlet financed by “progressive” plutocrats iwth deep pockets – did its review of AlphaNews’s “Minneapolis Has Fallen”. The claims – well, I’ll let the tweet do the talking for the piece, entitled “I Watched Minneapolis Has Fallen So You Don’t Have To”. Let’s go briefly through…

  • Ask And Be Answered

    Last week, I asked “why all the hate for National Review?” Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, responded: I had a subscription to National Review for decades.  I let it lapse when I realized O’Sullivan’s Law applied to his own magazine.  The writers I admired – who stated my views better than I could –…

  • Do It Yourself

    Back in high school, there were two radio stations in Jamestown. Up above White Drug was KEYJ, my station, a little 1,000 watt AM station whose boss, Bob Richardson, always made a point of hiring local kids and showing them how to do radio. Across First Avenue, above the jewelry store, was KSJB and KSJM.…

  • Mark from Saint Louis Park

    One of the great lessons Don Vogel taught me when I was working as his call screener was that there are four types of callers on radio talk shows; “Mark from Saint Louis Park” was one of the great callers over the past decade or so at AM1280. How great? He’s the only regular caller…

  • Rush

    Joe Doakes, no longer from Como Park, emails: I miss him. He is referring to Rush Limbaugh and his annual “True Story of Thanksgiving” Rush has been gone for two years now. But someone else needs to carry on the tradition. Spoiler alert below

  • Actual Journalism

    Since the entire media will try to suppress it – here’s “The Fall of Minneapolis”, by Liz Collin and the Alphanews crew: Watch it. Pass it along. I won’t give you any spoilers – you already know that Mayor Frey was a hapless stooge at best, a theatrical ninny at worst. Chief Arradondo lied through…

  • Mitch’s Journalism School 101, Part 2

    I asked a question last week that no Twin Cities “journalist” can seem to being themselves to ask: if food shelves are running short, what could the half billion dollars embezzled by DFL-affiliated non-profiteers have done to help things? Now, I was in the middle of a brutal week of work last week, so I…

  • Compromise

    Someone walks up to you with a baseball bat. They say they want to kill you. Your response is “no, I don’t want to get beaten to death with a baseball bat”. Looks like you have a standoff. A controversy. A conundrum. Someone else steps in and asks “How about we compromise? Will you settle…

  • Big Left’s Psyop

    The latest bit of gaslighting madness from the Minnesota chapter of Big Left: “The Star/Tribune is actually conservative“:

  • Open Letter To The Entire Twin Cities Media

    To: Twin CIties MediaFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous PeasantRe: Comforting The Confortable While Afflicting The Afflicted Minnesota Media, The Klink regime – in this case, politruk Flanagan – have been making this claim in various degrees ever since the election: Questions someone might think of asking the Administration: Given the administration’s, uh, innumeracy, it’d seem to…

  • A Modest Proposal And A Sincere Invitation

    To: Jana Shortal, KARE TVCC: KARE TVFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous PeasantRe: Books Ms. Shortal, Yesterday, you tweeted this, about a controversy currently being manufactured (indeed, wose manufacture you appear to be closely involved in) in Carver County: I know – it’s 2023, and even the most trivial parts of civic governance can and do get…

  • One Day In A Major Newsroom

    SCENE: A group of reporters and an editor are sitting around a conference table. EDITOR: OK. We need a story. Something to break us out of the summer doldrums. REPORTER 1: We spent such a long time reporting on abuse of children in the Catholic Church… REPORTER 2: I know, right? It’d be great to…

  • Damning With Faint Reason

    It’s been a little over a year since Liz Collin released “They LIed”, her investigation of the Derek Chauvin trial . I’ve been on the air with Liz – and for that matter, she’s filled in for me on my show – but the book didn’t come up. But to get on topic: I basically…

  • Tea Leaves

    Every DFL politician’s social media feed is raving about this puff piece from HuffPo which christens Tina Smith “the Velvet Hammer”. The Velvet Hammer? I can think of lots of adjectives to add to Smith’s hamfistedness. Velvet ain’t one of them. And what usually happens after you see DFLers posting “attagirls” over inexplicable media. puff…

  • Our Pathetic Whinging Overlords

    Minnesota has developed some horrifying personality tics in recent years. Especially this past year. But one that’s a groaner, year in, year out, is Minnesota’s crippling inferiority complex. It was manifested most plainly in the ’80s, when Minneapolis adopted the marketing hook “The MinneApple” – and continues every time the local media finds the most…

  • Behold The Flood

    The Strib is trying to wag the state’s proverbial dog: “Flooding in” to a Reddit thread? Why, it sounds good, doesn’t it? The kind of good news that an undistinguished meat puppet of a governor can’t be expected not to try to make hay of it… That stupid 1971 headline is set to pass “…on…

  • The Progress Of Every Hot Button Social Issue

    Why, no, stupid peasants. Nobody is taking your guns. I mean, nobody is taking your gas stoves. Ooos. Nobody is going to convert all cars to electric. Whoopsie. I mean nobody is going to surreptitiously convert the power grid to something that can’t sustain life in any place where the temperature gets below 40. D’oh!…

  • A Nation Of Boogiemen

    It’s this blog’s considered position that DFL politicians can say pretty much anything they want; they know that the typical DFL voter, while invincibly smug about their education, is incredibly badly informed and, being a trained regurgitator of dogma, has no capacity for critical thought. They also know that the Twin Cities’ subservient news media…

  • Participation Trophy

    Minnesota DFLers are giving themselves rotor-cuff issues patting themselves on the back… …over, uh, this: Minnesota came in one slot of Texas. I’m old enough to remember when Minnesota was overwhelmed with New York City. Plus ca change… But what is the rationale for this list, from always-Democrat-friendly CNBC? I’ll add some emphasis: To determine…

  • They Know What Matters

    Humans: “My God, this is horrible. Those poor girls…“ DFL/Media (pardon the redundancy): “OK, who leaked the video?“ Well, no – I’m actually not exaggerating (thread): The problem, Ms. Moriarty, is that nobody trust you or your office. Not even a fair chunk of people who would never consider not voting for the DFL.