{"id":3760,"date":"2008-12-05T13:22:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T18:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3760"},"modified":"2008-12-05T13:22:01","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T18:22:01","slug":"going-all-air-america-on-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3760","title":{"rendered":"Going All “Air America” On Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve “Mister Furious” Perry is out<\/a>\u00a0at the Minnesoros “Independent”<\/em>, says David Brauer:\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is the other shoe dropping after MnIndy’s parent, Center for Independent Media, announced<\/a> last month that the staff was being pared, freelance budget eliminated, and editing centralized in Washington, D.C.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Independent” media with “centralized” editing!<\/p>\n

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CIM, a nonprofit, has been under fire locally for badgering<\/a> its staff to, in the words of ex-freelancer Britt Robson, run “stories that embarrassed Republicans and promoted Democrats.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
That ran counter to Perry’s “pox-on-all-power” ethos honed to a knife’s edge during his many years as City Pages’ editor.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

While Learned Foot is right<\/a> – Perry did a lot more poxing the right than the left over the years, and there was <\/em>a reason he worked for a left-leaning group\u00a0and was in charge of an assembly of committed lefties\u00a0that\u00a0– I’ll give him that much.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Under Perry, City Pages overtook the Twin Cities Reader as the top local alt-weekly; [although the Reader’s complete demise in 1991 may have helped that – Ed<\/em>.]\u00a0since his February hiring, MnIndy’s traffic has soared, as this<\/a> chart demonstrates. It was definitely a team effort\u00a0\u2014 reaching a high point during the Republican National Convention\u00a0\u2014 but Perry hired several members of that team.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And the world thanks him for keeping Karl Bremer in the headlines.\u00a0 (Whooee).<\/p>\n

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Update II:<\/strong> A Perry ex-colleague asks<\/a> whether Perry’s Daily Mole<\/a> will make a comeback. From the looks of the cute 404 message, not imminently.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

With ad budgets drying up and (who are we kidding) the political need <\/em>for lefty propaganda sites diminished (for the next year or so, anyway), I can’t imagine a worse time to try to re-establish something like the Daily Mold<\/em>, at least if “earning a living” is an issue.<\/p>\n

Does Perry have enough friends at the MNPost <\/em>to make a go of it?\u00a0 Would he take a gig there if offered?\u00a0 What else is in the wings for Mister Furious?<\/p>\n

Oh, well.\u00a0 All the best, Perry.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve “Mister Furious” Perry is out\u00a0at the Minnesoros “Independent”, says David Brauer:\u00a0 This is the other shoe dropping after MnIndy’s parent, Center for Independent Media, announced last month that the staff was being pared, freelance budget eliminated, and editing centralized in Washington, D.C. “Independent” media with “centralized” editing! CIM, a nonprofit, has been under fire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760","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=3760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}