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    'Star and Sickle' no more

    By David Brauer | Published Wed, Sep 23 2009 2:10 pm

    Is this another sign of newspapers' declining influence, or did Chris Harte's ideological rejiggering of the editorial pages pay off?

    The right-wing World Net Daily alerts us to "Operation: Can You Hear Us Now?" which will stage demonstrations outside media outlets Oct. 17 to get journalists to pay attention to those undercovered anti-Democrat protests. (I know! I didn't realize there were folks out there who were mad!)

    In the Twin Cities, the tea partiers have picked their "left wing media outlet," and it's ... KARE11? Cute, cuddly KARE? Diana Pierce's station? Not the Minneapolis-based newspaper regularly villified on the right as the "Star and Sickle"?

    I hope this isn't a Sven thing. Me? I'd go over to WCCO, where Don Shelby is always talking about saving energy and other Commie notions.

    Strategically, it's not a dumb move. KARE is a ratings leader, and the protestors have only targeted a few newspapers nationwide. But on some level, this screams "slim pickings" among the local mainstream media.

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    David Brauer authors Braublog and is MinnPost's local media reporter. He's covered media and politics as a writer and editor since 1983 for City Pages, the Southwest/Downtown Journal, KFAN and KSTP-AM, Mpls.St.Paul, Minnesota Monthly, Law & Politics, the Business Journal, KARE11 and national outlets. Follow him on Twitter. Email: dbrauer [at] minnpost [dot] com. 

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