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By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Hammer falling at the Strib

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Hammer falling at the Strib — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:26:56 +0000

[...] paper sold for half of its sale value from just a few years before. Avista Capital Partners has already had run-ins with its creditors even at that price, and now the cuts have begun in earnest, according to the MinnPost (via Mitch [...]

By: sabbott

sabbott — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:37:02 +0000

I have to go take a Star Tribune

By: Marginalized Action Dinosaur

Marginalized Action Dinosaur — Tue, 06 May 2008 03:58:55 +0000

Minneapolis Star Tribune, teeters on the edge of bankruptcy, can the Winnipeg Free Press be far behind?…

The New York Post reports that our local newspaper, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, teeters on the edge of bankruptcy. The paper has traded hands twice in the last ten years, the latter transaction in 2006 coming at half of the price of the former. It no…

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:37:13 +0000

I’m assuming that the owners of the Strib are more concerned with the bottom line rather than the politics of the editorial
board. If you own a boat, and some fool is firing a shotgun, blasting holes in the hull…you stop the fool from sinking your boat.
The Strib could be a great paper if it only did what it was supposed to:objectively report the truth. It wouldn’t need to be reborn as a “Conservative” paper-one uncolored by political affiliation would be fine. Imagine what it would be like to open the paper, read an article about the election, for example, and not be able to recognize the politics of the reporter. Just the facts on the ground, not the facts as seen through the liberal OR conservative prism.
“They so bent, straight looks crooked to them.”

By: small dead animals

small dead animals — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:38:12 +0000

Not Waiting For The Asteroid…

“em>…the Minneapolis Star Tribune, teeters on the edge of bankruptcy. “……

By: Don Surber

Don Surber — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:21:03 +0000

Just ask me…

Answer: Ed Morrissey is preparing the obit. A no newspaper town? All those unwrapped fish …

By: Crush Liberalism

Crush Liberalism — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:11:47 +0000

Twin Cities’ daily fishwrap going under…

One down, so many more to go. Ed Morrissey chronicles the timeline of the Star-Tribune’s destruction, including how its hopelessly leftist agenda got in the way of reporting the truth…which, among other things, led to the decline of the r…

By: canopfor

canopfor — Mon, 05 May 2008 03:20:04 +0000

I can’t believe they keep killing trees for these newpapers
in 2008.It’s making waste for wastes sake.

Buddahpundit on May 4,2008 at 10:48PM.

Buddahpundit: Excellent point,for enviromental wackos and
the Liberal media,someone needs to make a
picture to illustrate a point to them!

Show a picture of clear cutting,and in the
middle of it,show how many newpapers per tree
they are using to print their Liberal views!

Hypocrisy on Parade!

By: d1carter

d1carter — Mon, 05 May 2008 03:10:33 +0000

Keep doing the same thing and expect a different result…What does this mean?

By: Buddahpundit

Buddahpundit — Mon, 05 May 2008 02:48:39 +0000

I can’t believe they keep killing trees for these newspapers in 2008. It’s making waste for waste’s sake.

By: crosspatch

crosspatch — Mon, 05 May 2008 02:09:16 +0000

Lileks will probably take over that defunct local show … Tightline … and interview Dr. Sphincter … or not.

I have a feeling he won’t have trouble finding work.

By: eaglesdontflock

eaglesdontflock — Mon, 05 May 2008 02:06:09 +0000

100 years of NYT is better than another decade of Google flexing its liberal muscle. And we all just feed at the teat.

The Race Card on May 4, 2008 at 9:36 PM

I’m sorry you brought up Google..they stack the deck against conservatives with their page rankings, or ignore entirely. Call and complain, and you get some long-haired eunuch oozing his left coast superiority with snarky comments. I think Google was Putin’s idea to destroy our culture.

By: The Race Card

The Race Card — Mon, 05 May 2008 01:36:52 +0000

And the Gray Lady is wheezing and coughing. Good riddance to them all. Sorry, Ed.

SouthernGent on May 4, 2008 at 3:33 PM

Sorry people, but to cheer the slow-burn collapse of our press corp is foolish. GOOGLE IS WORSE THAN the Times, Tribune and Gannett papers put together.

Guess where the 20% in advertising revenue is going….. primarily to Google.

100 years of NYT is better than another decade of Google flexing its liberal muscle. And we all just feed at the teat.

Go buy a newspaper. Save an American job, other than a journalist.

By: Orson Buggeigh

Orson Buggeigh — Mon, 05 May 2008 01:23:21 +0000

Jim K: “The Fifth Estate has become a Fifth Column instead. It’s no wonder so many of them are going under.”

Lovely line, but I believe that technically, the media and especially the MSM, is the *fourth* estate. Comes from a remark attributed to Edmund Burke regarding the journalists in the gallery watching Parliament, made some years after the French Revolution. I think I have seen some references to broadcast media as the ‘fifth estate,’ dating to the late 1940’s or early to mid 1950’s. Also, I think the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. has some kind of a TV news / public affair program called The Fifth Estate, though I could be mistaken. Also, I believe the term Fifth Estate has been used to pertain to so called alternative media.

Seriously, I agree, much of the trash the MSM offers really does qualify as fifth column work. Of course, that’s what one expects from the NYT and like minded scandal sheets. The Strib, like the Seattle papers, is very short on news, and long on politically correct pronouncements from the local ~~Politburo~~ excuse me, Democratic Party Central Committee.

By: rbj

rbj — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:50:07 +0000

I hate the left wing bias of the Toledo Blade, but I get it because I want to read the sports & comics (which are also pretty weak these days) with breakfast, without having to sit at the computer (I’ll be staring at a screen most of the day). Better local content, and some impartial news — show the good stories about Iraq as well as the bad.

Best of luck to Lileks.

By: Dr. Bob

Dr. Bob — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:18:16 +0000

Those of us living in MN can’t possibly be that lucky to see the (Red) Star Tribune go under.

If it happens, I’m going out to celebrate!

BTW – Now you know why they’ve been hoping to sell their prime downtown real estate for the new Vikings Stadium.

By: cjs1943

cjs1943 — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:16:24 +0000

Hey Ed, it may be the Strib to you, but its the Star and Sickle to us readers who see their bias for what it is.

By: MB4

MB4 — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:05:49 +0000

I don’t know if Strib is about to go under, but Global warming may be before much longer. Of course Al Gore will still get to keep all his ill gotten gains I can only presume.

Watch the web for climate change truths

On one hand our politicians are committing us to spending unimaginable sums on wind farms, emissions trading schemes, absurdly ambitious biofuel targets, and every kind of tax and regulation designed to reduce our “carbon footprint” – all based on blindly accepting the predictions of computer models that the planet is overheating due to our output of greenhouse gases.

On the other hand, a growing number of scientists are producing ever more evidence to show how those computer models are based on wholly inadequate data and assumptions – as is being confirmed by the behaviour of nature itself (not least the continuing non-arrival of sunspot cycle 24).

The fact is that what has been happening to the world’s climate in recent years, since global temperatures ceased to rise after 1998, was not predicted by any of those officially-sponsored models. The discrepancy between their predictions and observable data becomes more glaring with every month that passes.

By: RBMN

RBMN — Sun, 04 May 2008 23:56:09 +0000

If you do something expertly, honestly, and with passion, you should be able to make a living at it. Even if you’re just printing words on paper. The Star Tribune editors had the most trouble with the honesty part.

By: mpbk

mpbk — Sun, 04 May 2008 23:43:25 +0000

I don’t think restoring editorial sanity would help the paper reverse its decline in any significant fashion. The problem with papers is deeper than that. Paper is what you read on the bus or on the toilet. And now the macbook air is proving to be an adequate substitute in both instances. What’s a newspaper to do?

By: PattyJ

PattyJ — Sun, 04 May 2008 23:41:58 +0000

Speaking of money and media, take on online poll here on whether taxes should fund PBS: Online Poll from Parade Mag.

By: Lady Logician

Lady Logician — Sun, 04 May 2008 23:33:10 +0000

I think it’s time that bloggers in the Twin Cities start a little broadsheet during the convention, “Best of the Blogs Daily,” with comment, facts, etc.

It doesn’t have to be fancy; it just has to be honest.

PattyJ on May 4, 2008 at 5:42 PM

Ehem….True North…..

LL (co-founder of True North)

By: Skipper50

Skipper50 — Sun, 04 May 2008 23:23:24 +0000

Good riddance. There’re plenty of table waiting jobs for the staff.

By: RBMN

RBMN — Sun, 04 May 2008 23:18:29 +0000

I’d be happier if I thought that the old leftist dinosaurs that ruined the paper, and turned it into a national joke, could learn anything from their failure. But that’s not very likely. They’re impervious to logic or criticism. Bankruptcy is exactly what they deserve.

By: doubleplusundead

doubleplusundead — Sun, 04 May 2008 23:17:18 +0000

This is what happens when you use a newspaper primarily as an ideological sledgehammer. Newspapers are meant first and foremost for information or entertainment. I don’t have to pick up a NYT or Strib, because I can go online and get national stories from from sources and places where they aren’t going to bludgeon me with their ideology or even share my ideology.