Watching The Watchdogs
By Mitch Berg
Bill Salisbury, the longtime Capitol reporter for the PiPress, is a generally credible reporter on Minnesota politics issues.
But even Deans of Journalism make their errors.
Salisbury wrote in this piece (to which I’ll add emphasis):
A liberal advocay [sic] group today released the first TV ads attacking Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer.
The political arm of the Alliance for a Better Minnesota spent more than $500,000 to start running the 30-second spots statewide, according to their press release.
In the interest of clarity, Salisbury should have written “A liberal advocacy group today released the first TV ads attacking Republican candidate Tom Emmer that the DFL and Minnesota left actually had to pay real money for“.
Otherwise, great job!
July 7th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
“Alliance for a Better Minnesota ” Yea Right!
Say Hello to Trust Fund Mark’s lackeys (barf!).
ABM DIRECTORS
* Joe Grebner – AFSCME (surprise)
* Jessie Danielson – America Votes (union/enviro shills)
*Ryan Greenwood – Take Action Minnesota (Exec. Dir. of Progressive MN – go figure)
*Luchelle Stevens – SEIU (surprise again)
*Ken Martin – Win MN (DFL waterboy)
*Connie Lewis –Planned Parenthood (should be called planned extermination)
*Ben Goldfarb – Wellstone Action (A Klo campaign mgr.; community organizer ??)
July 7th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
Make them spend it all, I say.
July 7th, 2010 at 6:29 pm
Yesterday both dailies run front page above the fold stories on how serious and well prepared Unfunny Al Franken has been in his role as Senator and how he is resorting to Air America style (no mention if he stole money from poor kids, again) partisan jabs at Conservatives, particularly Chief Justice Roberts, who can’t fight back (another unattractive Franken trait, but I digress). No mention of his napping during the Kagan hearings. If only Emmert would hold a presser and require that only political reporters with integrity be allowed in. He could hold it in a phone booth.