{"id":802,"date":"2007-05-08T15:15:12","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T21:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/05\/08\/kouba-does-strib\/"},"modified":"2007-05-08T15:26:16","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T21:26:16","slug":"kouba-does-strib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"Kouba Does Strib"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthvmachine.com\/?p=4582\">Jeff Kouba on the changes<\/a> at the Strib:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Conservatives care about news, and bias in newsrooms, because we recognize the importance of a free press. I don\u2019t want the Strib to disappear, I value a strong local paper. I want a local paper that isn\u2019t the publishing arm of the DFL. I want a local paper that finds the stories I never could, and is home to quality writing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freedomdogs.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1844&#038;Itemid=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Image\" style=\"float: right\" height=\"346\" alt=\"Image\" hspace=\"6\" src=\"http:\/\/freedomdogs.com\/images\/stories\/SaveLileks.jpg\" width=\"280\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is much I enjoy about the Strib. I enjoy their theater and music and dance critics. I like the sports pages. In short, I value the local focus Hugh Hewitt says will be necessary for newspapers in a changing media landscape.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s a key point &#8211; one missed by rage-o-holics like Nick Coleman and Garrison Keillor; most of us have\u00a0 nothing intrinsically against newspapers or their reporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Merely the blinkered, smug political bias that all too many (but by no means all) newspaper reporters, columnists and editors have.<\/p>\n<p>Some of us, indeed, roil with anger in noting that the Strib has the tools for its own salvation already on board, in the likes of Eric Black, Doug Tice, Lileks (for now) and whomever decided to hire Katherine Kersten, but chooses to ignore them in favor of an ever-more-noxious <em>status quo<\/em>.\u00a0 They&#8217;re &#8220;staying&#8221; the wrong course.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But a paper that equates local focus with turning Lileks into a brand new J-school graduate doesn\u2019t know where it\u2019s going, and that\u2019s not a good sign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jim Boyd a lousy leader?<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;da thunk it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freedomdogs.com\/images\/stories\/SaveLileks.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Kouba on the changes at the Strib: Conservatives care about news, and bias in newsrooms, because we recognize the importance of a free press. I don\u2019t want the Strib to disappear, I value a strong local paper. I want a local paper that isn\u2019t the publishing arm of the DFL. I want a local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","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=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}