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Facebook asks: Where's Nick?

By David Brauer | 02/19/09

A grassroots social networking movement takes wing seeking an explanation about the departure of Star Tribune columnist Nick Coleman.

The text on Facebook's "Where's Nick?" page is pretty funny, and a bit poignant:

Nick’s last column appeared Feb. 8... Two new columnists have been introduced since then, but the newspaper has not said ONE WORD about what has happened to him, or whether he is even still employed at the paper where his successful columnist career began in 1983. He might have disappeared! Could he be buried in a 55-gallon drum in a half-empty Strib parking lot where Zygi Wilf wants to put an end zone and Tim Pawlenty can shake his pompoms? We have a right to know!

I think I know the answers, but it will be more fun getting the official management and Coleman responses, which will have to wait until Friday unless the principals want to chip in a comment.

Comments (5)

Submitted by Jeff Michaels on February 20, 2009 - 11:06am.

I suspect the information about Nick's whereabouts is on the same Star Tribune page as the news about local talk show host Jason Lewis taking his radio show national.

Lewis, of course, is the local fellow who has been filling in nearly one year for Rush Limbaugh, one of the the most prominent and controversial figures in politics today. There has not been one word in the newspaper about Lewis' prominent role on the national scene. It is that kind of journalism that has made the Star Tribune what it is today.

Submitted by Mark Gisleson on February 20, 2009 - 12:49pm.

http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentary/34426049.html?elr=KArksUUUU

At least the Strib found space to give Lewis a free op-ed just a few months ago.

No, I'd say the Jason Lewis story you're looking for is on the same page as the story talking about Rachel Maddow's smashing success at MSNBC. You know, the same page that reported Joe Scarborough's meltdowns and f-bombs. The same page that runs all the correction of Rush's biggest lies. The same page that factchecks Michele Bachmann's less than lucid spiels.

The Strib's not covering a lot of stories nowadays, having been looted by the same robber baron financiers that drove our economy into a ditch. The same people who wish EVERY American got his/her news exclusively from Rush and Jason.

Submitted by Peter Swanson on February 20, 2009 - 6:21pm.

It's Friday. Where's my Nick update?

I was not aware that Maddow and Scarborough are local Minnesota personalities who made the big time.

[David replies: blown off by both sides. Info coming though.]

Submitted by Mark Gisleson on February 21, 2009 - 10:23am.

What about Chris Baker? He's getting loads of Strib ink. Or is that just editorial balance because our Senator-elect is a former liberal talk radio host?

Submitted by Ron Salzberger on February 25, 2009 - 10:40am.

Brauer wrote on February 19, "I think I know the answers, but it will be more fun getting the official management and Coleman responses, which will have to wait until Friday unless the principals want to chip in a comment."

Friday has come and gone. As have Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. Time to spill the beans, don't you think?