{"id":1420,"date":"2007-10-09T11:55:23","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T16:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2014-12-12T14:53:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T20:53:12","slug":"like-a-free-ride-when-you-already-paid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1420","title":{"rendered":"Like A Free Ride, When You Already Paid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Schmelzer &#8211; the MinMon&#8217;s best reporter (Eric Black seems to be more\u00a0of an independent than a staffer, hence the distinction)\u00a0&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotamonitor.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=2589\">notes the larger story<\/a> behind the flap that surfaced in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1412\">this post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>No hat tips from the Strib:<\/strong> Big ups to City Pages for last week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.citypages.com\/2007-10-03\/news\/banning-desmond-tutu\/\">bona fide scoop<\/a> on the University of St. Thomas\/Desmond Tutu flap. It&#8217;s spawned reports on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?q=%22desmond+tutu%22+%22university+of+st.+thomas%22&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;um=1&#038;sa=N&#038;tab=wn\">blogs and in the corporate media alike<\/a>, but CP staffer Paul Demko isn&#8217;t feeling the love. He says the Star Tribune &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.citypages.com\/blotter\/2007\/10\/banning_desmond.php\">simply stole the scoop<\/a>&#8221; without <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/462\/story\/1467846.html\">crediting<\/a> the altweekly and has been emailing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1412\">blogs<\/a> to get its props. If it makes you feel better, CP, <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotamonitor.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=2539\">it<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/10218\/story\/1467757.html\">happens<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotamonitor.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=524\">to us <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/587\/story\/749053.html\">all the time<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why, yes.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=987\">pretty common<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Schmelzer &#8211; the MinMon&#8217;s best reporter (Eric Black seems to be more\u00a0of an independent than a staffer, hence the distinction)\u00a0&#8211; notes the larger story behind the flap that surfaced in this post: No hat tips from the Strib: Big ups to City Pages for last week&#8217;s bona fide scoop on the University of St. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326,31,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-alt-media","category-blogs","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49889,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions\/49889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}