Last fall, Bill Glahn pondered the “journalistic ethics” of Minnesota Public Radio News taking underwriting money from one of the government bodies it’s supposed to be scrutinizing – in this case, MNSure’s sponsorship of Keri Miller’s “Daily Current” show:<\/p>\n
The host\u2019s interruptions of the token conservative are not just to challenge facts or opinion.\u00a0\u00a0On two occasions, MPR\u2019s Miller interrupts Republican Golnik to defend Democrat Governor Dayton\u2014on the Vikings Stadium [30:22] and on\u00a0MPR News\u2019 sponsor<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0MNsure<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Nobody’s mistaken Keri Miller for a non-biased journalist in 25 years; she’s about as balanced as Bill O’Reilly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But Glahn notes that, yes, MNSure – an agency of the government of the state of Minnesota – sponsors MPR News.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So now, we get the news that the directors of MNSure and Minnesota’s Medicaid director took a vacation to Costa Rica together<\/a>\u00a0(as the MNSure site was debuting to terrible reviews).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Now, is there a conflict of interest, here?\u00a0 Knowing that if MNSure actually does <\/em>crater, its
victims<\/del> clients will likely get thrown into Medicaid?\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t know – yet.\u00a0 But I’ll find out.\u00a0<\/p>\nIf there were <\/em>a problem (and MPR’s coverage so far seems to\u00a0tell us\u00a0“nothing to see here, move along, people<\/a>“), would MPR be the one to tell us?\u00a0<\/p>\n