{"id":74141,"date":"2020-05-15T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74141"},"modified":"2021-07-14T14:31:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T19:31:58","slug":"imbalance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74141","title":{"rendered":"Imbalance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bob Collins&#8217;s descent into madness notwithstanding, Minnesota Public Radio is in general the best, least systematically biased newsrooms in the Twin CIties.  It&#8217;s a low bar, but they get over it by a hair or two.  On a good day or the right issue, Tom Hauser at Channel 5 might join &#8217;em above the bar &#8211; but I digress. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(And we&#8217;re referring to the newsroom, here &#8211; not their programming, which is largely Democrat PR). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So one of the greater injustices of this whole epidemic is that MPR and American Public Media (APM) are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2020\/05\/13\/mpr-cuts-jobs-due-to-funding-crunch?fbclid=IwAR1VNNNFnhlrp2V_biavFTWVF5_Diq0NKznZusssfmUBkBb167L3EI4VNTk\">buying out a slew of long-time staffers<\/a>, including some fairly decent reporters&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;but Keri Miller &#8211; who may be an even more sycophantic DFL toady than Esme Murphy &#8211; just keeps jabbering on.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Collins&#8217;s descent into madness notwithstanding, Minnesota Public Radio is in general the best, least systematically biased newsrooms in the Twin CIties. It&#8217;s a low bar, but they get over it by a hair or two. On a good day or the right issue, Tom Hauser at Channel 5 might join &#8217;em above the bar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[436],"class_list":["post-74141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-esme-murphy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74141","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=74141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74142,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74141\/revisions\/74142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}