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I took home First Place in the Spot News category one year for a story about Miss America suffering a grease "spot" on her suede slacks when a kid tossed apricot cobbler at her in the cafeteria of a high school during a visit to Mankato, Minn. The story about Miss America's traumatic pants injury didn't run until 2 days after the actual incident because Anwar Sadat inconveniently had himself assassinated on the same day as the pie attack in Mankato, making it impossible for me to get my...
Boyko's Cadillac bar finally was put out of business, I believe, when strippers were engaged to entertain the crowd by offering a can of beer and a kiss without benefit of a top. A bridge too far.
You can put a GPS in your news cruiser, but you can't buy a moral compass.
one man's "phonying up" is another man's "dumbing down."
in this case, i vote for DD
by absentee ballot, of course
The "MORE TO LIFE" campaign is one of the most useless public relations campaigns ever to blight the Twin Cities skyline... it was supposed to eclipse the need for us to have to say "Twin Cities." Now we can just say, "MSP -- More to Life!"
Try that when the guy on the next stool asks where you are from.
"I'm from MSP -- MORE TO LIFE!," you'll say. He'll punch you in the eye and say, "Really? I'm from Duluth."
We need a snappier slogan. something like, "Minneapolis Saint...
Hey, it (they?) worked for Rupert Murdoch!
By the way, the same songwriter behind Saving Newspapers: The Musical also recently did a very clever ode to Paul Krugman that you can find here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOYAuk809fY
Floater, you Big Knucklehead: My comments were not about the hard work being put in by the Flood Corps of '09. Sixteen hour days? I wouldn't expect anything less. My point, which was simple: I don't think the Legacy Media have committed the same manpower -- or spent the same dinero -- on the flood of 2009.
Get some sleep. Nice job.
The interesting comparison would be to check media staffing levels in '09 vs. 1997, just to see what's been lost. During that flood, WCCO's Gunga Don reported from the scene almost every night, in Abercrombie hip boots and waders, choppering in and out from a safe haven in Fergus falls. Big time coverage, with all the big names, and casts of dozens. I think the Strib even parked a hi-tech trailer somewhere on the soggy prairie. All-out coverage, baby. Mad Bill Alkofer, rest his soul, and I...
The ironically named Mr. Swift, who once upon a time finished 9th in an 8-way race for St Paul School Board, is usually so vile as to be beyond the necessity of a response. But with this insane slur against the memory of the late Zelma Wiley, the inspirational principal of Maxfield School in St. Paul, he goes beyond the beyonds: For the record, Zelma crusaded for books in her neglected inner-city school (I drew the wrath of the righty mouth-breathers like Swift for trying to assist the...