{"id":1368,"date":"2007-09-29T04:20:57","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T09:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1368"},"modified":"2007-09-29T04:20:57","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T09:20:57","slug":"and-you-thought-wed-be-under-served","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1368","title":{"rendered":"And You Thought We’d Be “Under-Served”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Strib will be starting a “New” political section tomorrow.<\/p>\n

The Star Tribune will launch a new website Monday that aims to be a one-stop shop for all things political in Minnesota. The site, Politically Connected, will particularly focus on the 2008 elections.<\/p>\n

“The Internet has a wealth of political information, but it’s very specialized and very fractured,” said Dennis McGrath, a longtime Star Tribune editor who will oversee the site.<\/p>\n

“What Politically Connected will do is not only give you the Star Tribune’s political news, but it will also sweep in all of the different political content that’s out there and assemble it in one place so visitors to this site can spend less time searching … and more time reading it, watching it and debating it,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not going to hazard a guess as to the kind of “gatekeeping” the Strib’s crack political staff will do on all of this handy-dandy unregulated material, though.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Oh, no.\u00a0 Not me.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Politically Connected –accessible on Monday at www.startribune.com\/politics<\/font><\/a> — will feature a main news-of-the-day page, as well as pages on specific political races and individual candidates, weekly podcasts on Minnesota politics, staff-produced blogs, links to blogs across the political spectrum and archival information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, “Blog House” with a budget?<\/p>\n

“We give a lot of information about what’s going on that day or that week in politics, but it gets lost [in time],” Star Tribune Editor Nancy Barnes said. “We want to collect it and archive it and engage people in the discussion.”<\/p>\n

It’s likely to be a lively site during the next 13 months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, that more or less goes without saying.<\/p>\n

But will it be a big improvement on their usual political coverage<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Barnes said that in addition to informing the public, the website has the potential to generate revenue.<\/p>\n

“Over time, we hope to get political advertising as people see it is the place to come for political news and information,” she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m shocked.\u00a0 I expected unicorns on gossamer wings to flit from the sky with sacks of doubloons.<\/p>\n

Here’s a question, Dennis McGrath; do you think the Strib has retained any credibility at all, after the past decade of in-the-bag bias?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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