{"id":4610,"date":"2009-04-20T06:26:04","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T11:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4610"},"modified":"2009-04-20T10:16:24","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T15:16:24","slug":"meet-the-new-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4610","title":{"rendered":"Meet The New Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the years, I’ve given the Minnesoros…<\/em>er, Minnesota Independent <\/em>a lot of crap.<\/p>\n

Of course, they’ve deserved much of it; from their early, fingers-crossed insistence that nosirreebob there was no link between their parent groups (The Center for “Independent” Media) and the various tentacles of George Soros’ propaganda machine (it turned out, by\u00a0golly, there were<\/a>) to plagiarism<\/a>, comical<\/a> reporting<\/a> and, finally, the shocking revelation that the whole enterprise was a propaganda tool <\/a>(“Shut up!<\/em>“), the publication has been at times\u00a0a carnival of errors.<\/p>\n

Which doesn’t mean they haven’t had good writers on board; Andy Birkey, Paul Demko and Paul Schmelzer are all perfectly capable journalists on their respective beats.<\/p>\n

Chris Steller,on the other hand, needs some work:<\/a><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s evidence that Minnesota\u2019s post-election battle for U.S. Senate has permeated pop culture. Al Franken and Norm Coleman were cited this week by contestants in another competition that attracted millions of partisans: the race between movie actor Ashton Kutcher and news juggernaut CNN to be first to gain one million followers on Twitter, the social-media phenomenon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ah.\u00a0 Well, now we know we’re into vital <\/em>news territory.\u00a0 It’s good to kinow we have seasoned (citizen) journalists covering that crucial King\/Kutcher beat.<\/p>\n

Two leading players in the new-media stunt known as the \u201dTwitter War\u201c compared themselves to Minnesota\u2019s Senate rivals. Kutcher tweeted \u201cnow I know how Al Franken must have felt\u201d when the race looked tight on Thursday. After the actor bested the network today, CNN host Larry King said, \u201cI\u2019m not a sore loser. I\u2019m not gonna pull a Norm Coleman and take this to the courts.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, by all means, Minnesota, let’s let Larry King serve as our rudder in difficult times. Let the bland, mushy-left, softball-tossing star-hugging King, the emptiest of all the talking heads, steer the ship of state!<\/p>\n

It’ll make things so <\/em>much easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the years, I’ve given the Minnesoros…er, Minnesota Independent a lot of crap. Of course, they’ve deserved much of it; from their early, fingers-crossed insistence that nosirreebob there was no link between their parent groups (The Center for “Independent” Media) and the various tentacles of George Soros’ propaganda machine (it turned out, by\u00a0golly, there were) […]<\/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-4610","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\/4610","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=4610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}