[Speed Gibson,
Friday November 16, 2007 at 10:23pm]
I'm trying to help
I quit my decades long subscription to the Minneapolis Star Tribune almost a year ago. I buy a newsstand copy maybe once a week, and, trying to preserve choice, at lease one Pioneer Press per week, too including today. I generally leave it the company lunchroom after I've read it, trying to improve their exposure.
No good deed goes unpunished, I guess. The top headline today asks "Bad mom - or just plain bad judgment?" regarding the four year found wandering St. Paul streets at 1 AM while his mother "ran an errand." Are you kidding me?
But the big story was about the accords struck by Prime Minister Pawlenty and friends to save the earth. This story was dripping with bias borne of liberal politics and junk science, a true disservice to their readership. It literally presented provably false information as accepted fact and gave the reader a false sense of perspective. Nothing was "alleged" and no contrary evidence or quotes were given.
I'm trying to help the fledging competition and this I what I get, a puff piece trying to out-Strib the Strib?
No good deed goes unpunished, I guess. The top headline today asks "Bad mom - or just plain bad judgment?" regarding the four year found wandering St. Paul streets at 1 AM while his mother "ran an errand." Are you kidding me?
But the big story was about the accords struck by Prime Minister Pawlenty and friends to save the earth. This story was dripping with bias borne of liberal politics and junk science, a true disservice to their readership. It literally presented provably false information as accepted fact and gave the reader a false sense of perspective. Nothing was "alleged" and no contrary evidence or quotes were given.
I'm trying to help the fledging competition and this I what I get, a puff piece trying to out-Strib the Strib?