{"id":90072,"date":"2025-12-22T06:25:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90072"},"modified":"2025-12-22T06:25:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:25:25","slug":"a-local-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90072","title":{"rendered":"A Local Secret?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This fall and winter – when the Minnesota fraud story finally broke nationwide – has been a long time coming.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As has been a broad realization, at least among modestly independent media, that the Twin Cities media is\u00a0<\/a>exactly what we’ve been saying it is<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>for the past 20-odd years:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“The Minnesota Star Tribune masquerades as a newspaper,” New York Post columnist Miranda Devine posted on X<\/a>. “It’s actually a Democrat front, hiding news, twisting facts, lying outright. One of the worst in the country.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, the paper\u2019s CEO is Steve Grove, who served as Gov. Tim Walz\u2019s former commissioner of employment and economic development, which has sparked criticism from some who say that the paper is hesitant to pin Walz to the fraud crisis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fox News Digital spoke to several locals who argued that media outlets either didn\u2019t cover the scandal thoroughly enough or, in cases where it was covered, Walz\u2019s oversight role was downplayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Minnesota Star Tribune has proven itself to be nothing more than communist fish wrap,” Republican\u00a0House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, who represents Minnesota 6th Congressional District, told Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A free, independent press – the one they envisioned when they wrote the First Amendment – is one of the things that makes self-government above the “tribe” level possible. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Maybe we’ll get one of those in Minnesota someday. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sure, the Strib covered the fraud story. With a blanket. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[483,130,2,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud","category-tc-media-bias","category-minnesota-politics","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90072","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=90072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90073,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90072\/revisions\/90073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}