{"id":38150,"date":"2013-09-05T12:15:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T17:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38150"},"modified":"2013-09-05T10:26:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T15:26:15","slug":"journalism-safely-tucked-out-of-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38150","title":{"rendered":"Journalism Safely Tucked Out Of The Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill Glahn – who has become one of the essential bloggers in Minnesota – notes something I picked up on in the 2010 race; all “reporting” that might discomfit Democrats takes place at times in the cycle when even wonks are hard-pressed to pay attention, much less Joe and Jane Casual Voter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I noted it in 2010, when the Twin Cities media issued one – precisely one – “report” on Mark Dayton’s mental health and alcoholism during the campaign cycle.\u00a0 Eleven months before the 2010 election<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 When nobody, but nobody, cared.\u00a0\u00a0 The Strib <\/em>could tell people honestly that they had <\/em>covered the issue; it was just at a time when nobody in the world was paying attention.\u00a0 They buried the story just as effectively as if they’d put it on page E-18.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As Glahn notes, they’re at it again<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Some 8 months after the data became available, the Minneapolis Star Tribune finally gets around<\/a>\u00a0to an analysis of campaign spending in the 2012 election.<\/p>\n

The article (headlined “Spending on Minnesota legislative races has doubled in 10 years”) describes how much more money has poured into races for the state legislature in recent years.<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, they bury the lede.\u00a0 Yes, lots more money is coming into these races, but in recent years, it’s almost all on the Democrat\/liberal\/progressive side of the ledger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course they do.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n

And chalk it up to the pattern; too little, too late, too early.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Just like the DFL needs it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill Glahn – who has become one of the essential bloggers in Minnesota – notes something I picked up on in the 2010 race; all “reporting” that might discomfit Democrats takes place at times in the cycle when even wonks are hard-pressed to pay attention, much less Joe and Jane Casual Voter.\u00a0 I noted it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38150","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=38150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38155,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38150\/revisions\/38155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}