Just For Mandarins
By Mitch Berg
John Gilmore at Minnesota Conservatives is demanding the U of M release the video of Governor Dayton’s speech to the Humphrey Institute, which we discussed earlier this week.
Here’s Gilmore’s email to the U of M, which explains it better than I could:
Email to U of M General Counsel
If, as Gilmore notes, the U really did claim it was “too expensive” to videotape the Governor, and that local TV stations taped the event but are sitting on it (why?) – well, what’s the U protecting?
September 20th, 2012 at 11:04 am
What’s so hard to understand about political collusion between government and media, Mr. Gilmore? Media and government both have their thumbs on the scales of truth. It’s supposed to be a ‘given,’ John.
September 20th, 2012 at 4:23 pm
A question for Learned Foot – is there a Minnesota equivalent of FOIA through which the U can be REQUIRED to produce this?
January 1st, 2013 at 1:28 pm
[…] The Claudius Caesar Award For Excellence In Praetorian Guardsmanship: This is another shared award, between the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute and the entire Twin Cities media, who conspired to keep video of a particularly dissociative, rambling, downright bizarre Mark Dayton spee…. […]