strib, again.

[question everything]

For the whole week it gave the results of the "Minnesota Poll" which shows that we are divided and yes, I sensed an undercurrent of Republicanism there.

And today, perhaps they needed to fill space of a whole page (not enough Viking stories?) so they reprinted an editorial from a newspaper in Toledo going after the ones who "use the word racist" at every turn.

This story was also published in a Pittsburgh paper - a sister paper, I think - so they got a letter from 150 newsroom employees, decrying the publication of that editorial

http://www.startribune.com/as-journalists-we-decry-this-appalling-editorial/470023803/

Still, why would the strib dedicat a whole page for the original editorial?

http://www.startribune.com/stop-this-name-calling-and-debate-the-issues/470024043/

I am pretty sure that they do not have many rabid conservatives among their readers. After all, it is difficult to shake the decades old image of a "liberal paper." So what are they trying to do? Lose the remaining liberals readers?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. The editorial by the newsroom employees wouldn't have had as much impact

without the original one, which was, indeed, bullshit. So I think it made sense to print both. What bugs me a lot more about the Strib these days is that the only non-conservative political cartoonist they are using is Steve Sack; they have been printing a lot of really awful right-wing cartoons by the likes of Ramirez.