{"id":2679,"date":"2008-06-09T07:53:36","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T12:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2679"},"modified":"2008-06-09T09:29:17","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T14:29:17","slug":"editor-mulligan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2679","title":{"rendered":"Editor Mulligan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Minnesota Monitor <\/em>– the two-year-old lefty flak site supported by the “Center for Independent Media”, which initially set up shop in space shared with George Soros’ “Media Matters for America”, and is currently floated by a bevy of lefty organizations<\/a>, has rebranded itself The Minnesota Independent. <\/em>Was it because of a desire to put their past – dubious ethics<\/a>, shoddy, giggly fratboy\/sororitychick-level reporting<\/a>, plunging traffic [or merely stagnant; the source was unclear on exactly how <\/em>slow things were, over there], their long dissembling masquerade as an “independent” operation until the truth leaked out<\/a> – behind them?<\/p>\n

I’m inclined to think not; the changes seem to be all cosmetic (of which more below); all but one of the Center for Independent Media’s operations are now named “…Independent”, though.<\/p>\n

On the upside: The new design is better. Forget politics for a moment. The graphics are different, sure – but big whoop.\u00a0 I’m a usability guy; graphics are for kIdZ with Photoshop. But give credit where it’s due; the site’s overall interaction design is <\/em>a huge improvement (and I am <\/em>pretty remorselessly clinical about this sort of thing, since income trumps politics every time). And the old, frustrating, utterly opaque comment engine seems to have been finally, unlamentedly flushed. I presume the new one is better, but I don’t know; I haven’t left a comment yet. Either has anyone else in a while, from the looks of it.<\/p>\n

Unchanged; the staff, the relentless sunshine-up-the-trousers DFL flakkery, and of course the “Code of Ethics<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

Anyway – welcome to the big world, “MinnIndy<\/em>“.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Minnesota Monitor – the two-year-old lefty flak site supported by the “Center for Independent Media”, which initially set up shop in space shared with George Soros’ “Media Matters for America”, and is currently floated by a bevy of lefty organizations, has rebranded itself The Minnesota Independent. Was it because of a desire to put […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679","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=2679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}