Well, That’s A First

You’ve no doubt noticed – my NARN colleague Michael Brodkorb’s role in derailing the Al Franken senate campaign made it to the Sunday New York Times.

The Times’ writer, Monica Davey, made what seemed to be a game effort at conveying the Minnesota political blog scene, including a half-hour interview with me a few weeks ago that covered primarily the Minnesota Organization of Bloggers and, of course, True North, my other blog.  She seemed genuinely curious – and, within the constraints of space, did a decent job of getting at least some of the basics across.

The good news?  I got into the Times.

The bad news?  From our half-hour conversation, this was the quote she ran:

“We’ve kind of got a center of gravity going on up here,” said M\
itch Berg, one in a group that started a “True North” Web site in 2007.

“…going on up here?”

Oy.  Good thing I didn’t say “Ja, sure, you betcha”, too.

Anyway – Kudos, Michael!

And Scott Johnson gives some of the anti-climactic background to the whole NARN saga…

3 thoughts on “Well, That’s A First

  1. I think it was a good, fair article, all in all. Which, given the present quality of the NYTimes, is noteworthy.

  2. When we went up to Lutsen in December, I kept getting this image that I was going so far “up there” I might get a nose bleed… Then my wife reminded me that she goes to Winnipeg twice a year with no ill-effects. Must be cultural conditioning but Grand Marais does seem WAY up there while Winnipeg doesn’t.

    Regardless, Congratulations Mitch! I’m sure your name won’t be wrapped around any fish on the upper east side! 🙂

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