Robin “Rew” Marty is leaving the Center for “Independent” Media – the “non-profit” that controls and bankrolls a whole slew of “independent” political propaganda sites like the Minnesoros “Independent“:
Over my years with the CIM my job became more and more operational based, and now that they are larger, they have hired enough people to move all operations into the DC office itself, and now having an operations person outside of DC just doesn’t make a lot of sense functionally. I’ll be wrapping up some advertising projects for them in the next two weeks, and then I’ll be moving on altogether.
In other words, any pretense of “independence” on the part of the Mindy would seem to be null and void; the national office has assumed control.
And is there a memory hole of some kind? Remember – Robin was the Mindy’s first editor, back when they were still the Minnesoros Monitor.
But as I began to spend more time helping the CIM set up other state based networks, I moved internally to the CIM and Paul Schmelzer took over MinMon, probably the best thing to ever happen to that site.
I’ll agree that Schmelzer is a capable journalist, writer and editor – one of the best in the local leftyblogger market.
But – isn’t Robin forgetting someone?
Someone who bridged the time between Robin’s leaving and Paul’s accession? Steve Perry, one of the more renowned muckraking journalists in the Twin Cities, who spent a year bringing over his pals from the City Pages to try to turn it into a real news organization…
…only to be rebuffed, as they found out after the election, when the CIM whacked most of the staff – because the mission (electing Obama) was accomplished?:
Robson became a casualty when MnIndy’s parent, the D.C.-based Center for Independent Media (CIM), eliminated the freelance budget entirely…However, Robson — who writes about arts for MinnPost and sports for The Rake — was caustic in his view [of] MnIndy’s Capitol overlords. He says CIM’s national staff was less interested in the organization’s professed mission — “a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that operates an independent online news network in the public interest” — than boosting the party of Barack Obama.
…after which Perry decamped?
Ah, well. The left wrote the book on memory holes.
Anyway, Robin’s got big plans:
For now, I am going to be working on freelance and consulting projects, my first being a contract to work part time with one of my favorite advocacy groups
All the best, Robin!
(Via Luke Hellier on Twitter)
CORRECTION: Apparently I’m the one who forgot:
[Schmelzer] took over MNindy in June of 2007 as editor, when [Marty] moved to the CIM itself. Steve Perry came in as a senior editor in March of 2008, and then left in November of 2008. Paul has been the editor all throughout that time.
In my defense, I’m a critic, not an HR person.
But duly noted.
Did you notice Demko is gone too.
Down to just three white guys.
I amuse myself from time to time by checking out MinnIndy’s SiteMeter stats. I find it hilarious their traffic is about the same as my blog, and most traffic to my blog is from people doing Google image searches for a picture of my ass.
You can always tell when MinnIndy’s most desperate for a Huffing-on-Paint link when they run something about that “crazy” Michele Bachmann. They’re like a starving dog under a buffet table when it comes to angling for links from the big fish in the Internet pond.
That, and the whole site looks like someone dropped a shoebox full of photographs on the floor.
If Michelle Bachman loses, what will they have to write about?
Sweet!
Now she’ll have time to hone that smokin’ hot bod and maybe someday people will be Googling pictures of her dirty muchroom too! (Hey don’t laugh; some people *like* hairy female asses, ya know!)
Down boy.
Robin’s a fine ‘n dandy human being. She might go a lot further in an institutional sense if she learned answers other than “No comment”, “No, despite your overwhelming evidence that’s just not true” and “Oooh, someone’s got a cru-ush”.
Hope she does well.
I hope she gets a mid-management job at Target, and a nice house in Maple Grove.
I hope she gets a mid-management job at Target
That’s really cruel.
Or a mid-management job at a local Wal-Mart store……..and a errrr…”nice” apartment at Riverside Plaza.
So she’s leaving the Sorosphere to proselytize the morality of infanticide….yeah, Mitch; she’s a real sweetie….I guess. *Shrug*
MON: Heh.
Isn’t Rew the thin-skinned lefty-snarker who blathers on and on (but off and off-topic) and holds a vicious grudge against anyone who lives a mere block outside of the city?
“the ”
Hah. Like there’s only one. As if.
I like Rew as a person (we’ve met at various bloggy things involving beer in the past) and I wish her well in her future endeavors, even though we’re not on the same side of most political issues. I don’t really see any contradiction there.
I’m with Doug’s comment, and Mitch’s. I think, obviously, she’s wrong on a lot of stuff, but I hope she does well.