Circle Of Career Death
By Mitch Berg
The Minnesota Monitor further reinforces its transition from “an attempt at a left-leaning news rag” to “full-blown Soros-ass-kissing propaganda mill, albeit with the kind of traffic that Duncan “Atrios” Black picks out of his morning dump”, with the hiring of Molly Priesmeyer.
Who?
Oh, you remember Molly. She’s the woman Steve “Mr. Furious” Perry stuck on the “Facile Stereotype” beat a few years back, culminating in one of the most preeningly stupid pieces of “reporting” I’ve ever read. Indeed ,until Matt Snyders joined the City Pages, it could be fairly said Priesmeyer had written the dumbest bit of reporting in the Twin Cities media, since the departure of Margaret Grebe, anyway. (Although to be fair, a little bird tells us that her once-and-again editor Steve Perry told her to take out all the “fair” and “objective” stuff and slime Republicans more – which is, reportedly, Perry’s style).
Oh, Molly? Not much has changed in three years.
March 13th, 2008 at 7:50 am
The writers were a very diverse lot; some came from the U, while others were from Macalester, St. Thomas, Hamline, Carlton or St. Olaf.
Ha!
You are reinforcing my belief that these young liberal journos set out to be lawyers but can not make the cut.
March 13th, 2008 at 9:45 am
I saw her name on a completely empty and thoughtless post at MiniMoni. My first thought about her style and skill:
“she’ll fit right in!”
March 20th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
[…] And then, about the time Black bailed to go to the MNPost, they hired former City Pages editor and Daily Mold blogger Steve Perry. I and a fair chunk of the the local RealAmericansphere has been scratching our heads watching the hilarity ever since. Perry seems to have brought over a bunch of the City Pages less stellar exiles, and changed the site’s focus from semi-original reporting to screechy polemics seemingly copied word for word from pressure-group press releases and topped off with a dollop of shrill, giggly, usually ignorant commentary. […]