{"id":1616,"date":"2007-11-12T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T17:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2014-12-12T14:53:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T20:53:12","slug":"mn-monitor-adios-boyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1616","title":{"rendered":"Mn Monitor:  Adios Boyd?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A source with knowledge of the situation tells me there&#8217;s trouble brewing at the Minnesota Monitor.<\/p>\n<p>>> we&#8217;re hearing minnesota monitor is in<br \/>\n>> trouble. <em>Jim Boyd has quit<\/em> and there is some<br \/>\n>> consternation among the writers.<\/p>\n<p>Rumor has it that Boyd &#8211; whose much-ballyhooed entree to the Monitor was\u00a0intended to be yet another coat of credibility (along with hiring Eric Black) onto an\u00a0enterprise that employs some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=965\">good writers<\/a>, some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=987\">ethical trainwrecks<\/a>, and some\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1076\">well-meaning amateurs<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; is moving on to another regional online outlet.\u00a0 I&#8217;m working to confirm or spike the rumor.<\/p>\n<p>The source also tells me that <em>some <\/em>local journalists are <em>also <\/em>upset in that nobody tells even potential <em>employees<\/em> exactly who it is that funds the Monitor.\u00a0 (While nobody has formally confirmed anything, the Monitor&#8217;s parent group, the Center for Independent Media, shared offices with George Soros&#8217; &#8220;Media Matters for America&#8221; during their organizational gestation period.\u00a0 Nobody from the Monitor or the CIM has ever denied, after repeated direct requests, that Soros was the organizations&#8217; sugardaddy).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The rumor (and it IS just a rumor at this point) continues that Boyd will be joining the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\">MinnPost<\/a> &#8211; the new online <strike>DFL PR organ<\/strike>\u00a0news outlet\u00a0run by Boyd&#8217;s former boss Joel Kramer.\u00a0 A source at the Post declined to comment and has kicked my request for an on-the-record comment up the chain of command.<\/p>\n<p>More info as it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:\u00a0 Roger Buoen, the MinnPost&#8217;s Managing Editor, writes &#8220;we haven&#8217;t talked to Jim [Boyd]\u00a0about writing for\u00a0MinnPost&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A source with knowledge of the situation tells me there&#8217;s trouble brewing at the Minnesota Monitor. >> we&#8217;re hearing minnesota monitor is in >> trouble. Jim Boyd has quit and there is some >> consternation among the writers. Rumor has it that Boyd &#8211; whose much-ballyhooed entree to the Monitor was\u00a0intended to be yet another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-alt-media","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616","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=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49886,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions\/49886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}