The Uptake is a regional “videoblog”, featuring contributions from left-leaning “Citizen Journalists”.
I’ve written about them before; on the one hand, I know some of the people involved with The Uptake, and they have in the past sworn up and down that they want The Uptake to be a legit news source; they’ve put in some efforts in the past to try to accomplish that. On the other hand, they’ve had a lot of bobblehead contributors and employees with strange ideas of what journalism is, or who want to use it as a vehicle for grinding personal or social axes.
The Uptake is pushing a video that they were denied access into a press event with Newt Gingrich today.
The Uptake “reporter” said to a MNGOP staffer they had spoken to MNGOP Communications Director Mark Drake and were credentialed for the event. According to sources this is untrue. The Uptake never contacted the RPM for access and thus were never credentialed for the event.
My own sources confirm; the conversation never happened.
There are some grownups at the Uptake. Are they going to step up, one of these days?