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Ken Kadet

Minnetonka, MN
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5 years 28 weeks

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Posted on 02/05/09 at 12:09 pm in response to Round 3: Guthrie's Bahan vs. Star Tribune's Peck

Bahan wrote:
"...my unwillingness to assist the paper was based on my belief that they would not be able to accurately tell the story or give it the context it deserved..."

From a strategy standpoint, once you predict it'll be a lousy story, you have two choices:

Provide, at minimum, accurate information and your perspective -- which has a good shot of at least being in the story;

or don't cooperate, and be sure that your prediction comes true.

I guess...

Posted on 01/21/09 at 04:03 pm in response to As media landscape changes, so must marketing

Re: "we all must become social media experts."

It's not so much that we must become social media experts...it's that we must become experts at finding markets and audiences -- in all the media they choose.

Posted on 01/12/09 at 04:31 pm in response to The blue-collar Star Tribune cuts are the deepest

Unfortunately, I'd expect it only to get worse for those tied to the paper...um...paper.

What's more unfortunate is that the management appears to be handling its issues by squeezing everyone, rather than restructuring the business of the paper around some sort of sustainable business model. If there was a plan, perhaps some jobs could be saved.

Posted on 12/08/08 at 05:18 pm in response to Shocker: KSTP-AM fires Tommy Mischke

Driving home from anywhere late at night, listening to Mischke is a surreal experience. I suppose if The Common Man can survive from noon to 2, Mischke could have, but I'd argue he's a different beast ... an old-fashioned storyteller and prankster perfect for late night as a nip of cocoa with a little something extra.

I hope MPR can create a space for him ... he'd be perfect, and, as always, like nothing else out there.

Finally - I got a "file not found" when I clicked...

Posted on 11/04/08 at 02:34 pm in response to CNN on Coleman-Franken: 'The gene pool has thinned a little there in Minnesota'

That said, the CNN "discussion" is nearly unintelligible ... TV news once had a great tradition with Murrow, Cronkite, Brinkley, but now...

Perhaps if the 6th district representative retains her office, she can convince the media to get to the bottom of this thinning gene pool issue along with lingering questions about, you know, Americanism and stuff.

Posted on 10/03/08 at 02:57 pm in response to Adm. Stockdale was a great man, and other post-debate thoughts

A moving tribute to Adm. Stockdale. I always knew that he was better than what we saw at that debate, but had never heard the full story. It ought to be told more often.

Posted on 05/05/08 at 04:07 pm in response to Strib on verge of bankruptcy, NY Post reports

Seems like the options for the Strib are radically changing the business model, or dying a slow death.

Or, say, radically re-invigorating the news organization and seeing if they can't win back readers (or, in online adspeak "eyeballs"), whether online or off...and seeing if that might lead to more dollars.

What do you think happens to the Strib over the next couple years?

Posted on 04/21/08 at 11:34 am in response to Kersten's Arabic-school source: even more to the story

David, you could argue all week that you're not making an ad hominem attack on Amanda Getz or Katherine Kersten or TIZA. Or, you could get on the phone, call up TIZA and make some time to check out the place yourself and tell us about it.

Shouldn't someone do that?

I know you're a media critic, and that you see this as a media bias issue, but Dr. Glasser at the U told me years back that there is no such thing as unbiased media -- every choice you make is made based on some...