Shot in the Dark

Imbalance

Bob Collins’s descent into madness notwithstanding, Minnesota Public Radio is in general the best, least systematically biased newsrooms in the Twin CIties. It’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 ’em above the bar – but I digress.

(And we’re referring to the newsroom, here – not their programming, which is largely Democrat PR).

So one of the greater injustices of this whole epidemic is that MPR and American Public Media (APM) are buying out a slew of long-time staffers, including some fairly decent reporters…

…but Keri Miller – who may be an even more sycophantic DFL toady than Esme Murphy – just keeps jabbering on.

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6 responses to “Imbalance”

  1. This chopper for official use only Avatar
    This chopper for official use only

    Like I said when I posted this Mitch, be a real shame if any of these other “fairly decent reporters” go full cunt in social media and cause you confusion and angst. Chances are pretty good at least a few will, so in the words of another “fairly decent reporter”…

    ~ Courage

  2. Greg Avatar
    Greg

    I always enjoyed Tim Pugmire’s reports from the capital. He did a credible job of just playing it straight. If you squinted hard you could spot the bias – but you had to really work at it.

  3. This chopper for official use only Avatar
    This chopper for official use only

    Greg, the bias is contained in the stories they choose to cover or bury, not in how they present it.

    One cannot mistake the smug, condescending tone, either.

  4. Greg Avatar
    Greg

    While that is generally true, and the rule for TV broadcasting, I have found Tim Pugmire to be the local exception.

    I remember back when I worked for the MPD, the brass would tell the reporters, “A did B to C.” and a few hours later, you’d hear. “Z did unspeakable things because of RACISM.”

    My favorite was the puke who beat up his girlfriend then attacked her after the EMT’s loaded her in the ambulance. Yeah, he crawled in there to beat her.

    When a cop pulled him off, he went for the cop’s gun.

    It didn’t end well for him.

    And sure enough: “NEWS AT 10:00 PM HE WAS TURNING HIS LIFE AROUND!!!”

  5. Mitch Berg Avatar
    Mitch Berg

    Chopper,

    cause you confusion and angst

    Statement based on facts not in evidence. No confusion or angst involved; I expect nothing from people, least of all people in any position of power, even reporters.

    I accept the good, I expect the bad.

    No confusion about it.

    . Chances are pretty good at least a few will, so in the words of another “fairly decent reporter”…

    Stipulated. Call it “Erik Black Syndrome”.

    I call ’em as I see ’em. Always have, always will. My opinion is no more open to a popular vote than yours is, Chopper.

  6. Mitch Berg Avatar
    Mitch Berg

    be a real shame if any of these other “fairly decent reporters” go full cunt in social media

    Shame? Nah – it’d be “dog bites man”. Barely a story.

    The story is when some of them don’t’.

    Even if it’s temporary.

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