{"id":6622,"date":"2009-11-24T13:00:38","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T18:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6622"},"modified":"2009-11-25T11:23:29","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T16:23:29","slug":"their-masters-voice-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6622","title":{"rendered":"Their Master’s Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robin “Rew” Marty is leaving <\/a>the Center for “Independent” Media – the “non-profit” that controls and bankrolls a whole slew of “independent” political propaganda sites like the Minnesoros “Independent<\/em>“:<\/p>\n

Over my years with the CIM my job became more and more operational based, and now that they are larger, they have hired enough people to move all operations into the DC office itself, and now having an operations person outside of DC just doesn’t make a lot of sense functionally. I’ll be wrapping up some advertising projects for them in the next two weeks, and then I’ll be moving on altogether.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, any pretense of “independence” on the part of the Mindy <\/em>would seem to be null and void; the national office has assumed control.<\/p>\n

And is there a memory hole of some kind?\u00a0 Remember – Robin was the Mindy’s <\/em>first editor, back when they were still the Minnesoros Monitor<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But as I began to spend more time helping the CIM set up other state based networks, I moved internally to the CIM and Paul Schmelzer took over MinMon, probably the best thing to ever happen to that site.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll agree that Schmelzer is a capable journalist, writer and editor – one of the best in the local leftyblogger market.<\/p>\n

But – isn’t Robin forgetting someone?<\/p>\n

Someone who bridged the time between Robin’s leaving and Paul’s accession?\u00a0 Steve Perry, one of the more renowned muckraking journalists in the Twin Cities, who spent a year bringing over his pals from the City Pages <\/em>to try to turn it into a real news organization…<\/p>\n

…only to be rebuffed, as they found out after the election, when the CIM whacked most of the staff<\/a> – because the mission (electing Obama) was accomplished?:<\/p>\n

Robson became a casualty when MnIndy\u2019s parent, the D.C.-based Center for Independent Media (CIM), eliminated the freelance budget entirely\u2026However, Robson \u2014 who writes about arts for MinnPost and sports for The Rake \u2014 was caustic in his view [of] MnIndy\u2019s Capitol overlords. He says CIM\u2019s national staff was less interested in the organization\u2019s professed <\/strong>mission<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 \u201ca<\/strong> nonpartisan nonprofit organization that operates an independent online news network in the public interest\u201d\u00a0\u2014 than boosting the party of Barack Obama<\/strong>.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…after which Perry decamped?<\/p>\n

Ah, well.\u00a0 The left wrote the book on memory holes.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Robin’s got big plans:<\/p>\n

For now, I am going to be working on freelance and consulting projects, my first being a contract to work part time with one of my favorite advocacy groups<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All the best, Robin!<\/p>\n

(Via Luke Hellier <\/a>on Twitter)<\/p>\n

CORRECTION:\u00a0 Apparently I’m the one who forgot:<\/p>\n

[Schmelzer] took over MNindy in June of 2007 as editor, when [Marty] moved to the CIM itself.\u00a0 Steve Perry<\/span> came in as a senior editor in March of 2008, and then left in November of 2008.\u00a0 Paul has been the editor all throughout that time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In my defense, I’m a critic, not an HR person.<\/p>\n

But duly noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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