{"id":275,"date":"2006-12-29T07:01:11","date_gmt":"2006-12-29T13:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/12\/29\/untamed-harte\/"},"modified":"2006-12-29T08:16:08","modified_gmt":"2006-12-29T14:16:08","slug":"untamed-harte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"Untamed Harte"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike “Mikementum” Mosedale of the City Pages writes about the Strib sale and, mainly bloggers reactions to it, with a Cnote about the new publisher<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Not to be a buzzkiller, but it appears the personal politics of new Avista head honcho Chris Harte should meld quite nicely with those of the current Strib regime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tangent here: So does this mean that Mosedale is breaking with the common saw among local far-lefty medioids and activists – the City Pages’ <\/em>base – that the Strib is really a conservative front organization?<\/p>\n

Harte, who is expected to assume the role of chairman of the board at the Strib, is a longtime Democrat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I don’t think a lot of us on the right hold out much “buzz” for a reform of the Strib from within. I suspect the vast majority of us think that, at most, being owned by a private VC firm rather than a firm that participates in the noxious conceit that newspapers are a monastic order with a higher calling just might <\/em>make the changes in the news market swing back and smack the newsroom a bit more directly. That a VC company might look at incidents like this<\/a> a little more sensibly than did McClatchy.<\/p>\n

Or at least gut the editorial board like a fish.<\/p>\n

A few years ago, he contemplated a run against Susan Collins, the moderate Republican Senator from Maine, and since 2000, he has contributed more than $37,000 to assorted Democratic candidates and causes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good information…<\/p>\n

…which Brian had a solid day or two earlier<\/a>, not to mention Ed’s very complete listing.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mike “Mikementum” Mosedale of the City Pages writes about the Strib sale and, mainly bloggers reactions to it, with a Cnote about the new publisher: Not to be a buzzkiller, but it appears the personal politics of new Avista head honcho Chris Harte should meld quite nicely with those of the current Strib regime. Tangent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","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=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}