{"id":30717,"date":"2012-09-27T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30717"},"modified":"2012-09-27T20:48:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T01:48:04","slug":"my-letter-to-strib-politics-editor-patricia-lopez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30717","title":{"rendered":"My Letter To Strib Politics Editor Patricia Lopez"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, I wrote a letter to the Star\/Tribune’s politics editor, Patricia Lopez. \u00a0Here it was:<\/p>\n

Ms. Lopez,<\/p>\n

I’m Mitch Berg. I’m a talk show host at AM1280) and a blogger at “Shot In The Dark” (www.shotinthedark.info). I was referred to you by Rachel Stassen-Berger.<\/p>\n

I’ve been reading and writing about the Strib’s coverage of the Minnesota Poll.<\/p>\n

Question: How does the Strib justify a DFL 41 \/ GOP 28 (D+13) split? Even after Watergate – the worst election for Republicans in the last 50 years – the split in Minnesota was D+12.<\/p>\n

Thank you for your time and consideration.<\/p>\n

(etc etc)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s been no response.<\/p>\n

Nor did I expect one; the media’s petty nobility rarely troubles itself with the noisome fretting of the peasants.<\/p>\n

<\/del><\/p>\n

UPDATE: \u00a0I did in fact hear back from Ms. Lopez. \u00a0More tomorrow. \u00a0Or Monday. \u00a0We’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, I wrote a letter to the Star\/Tribune’s politics editor, Patricia Lopez. \u00a0Here it was: Ms. Lopez, I’m Mitch Berg. I’m a talk show host at AM1280) and a blogger at “Shot In The Dark” (www.shotinthedark.info). I was referred to you by Rachel Stassen-Berger. I’ve been reading and writing about the Strib’s coverage of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30717","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=30717"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30730,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30717\/revisions\/30730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}