Topics included how journalists determine when there’s false equivalency, how we’re desensitized by our media and how that leads to even greater atrocities by terrorists (we disagree), and how ‘nothing animates a discussion like the absence of facts.’ Read more →
It’s Friday on public radio, so this is a test of your tear duct system again. Here’s a story of the collision between the dreams we have and the reality we have to accept. Read more →
New England stole our winter. Read more →
Adrian Peterson, still sitting out a suspension from the NFL and Minnesota Vikings for beating his child, let Minnesota and the Minnesota media have it today. Read more →
Sometime between the first of the year and Valentine’s Day, part of the huge concrete icons in Lake Superior in Duluth disappeared. Read more →
Tomorrow, I’m on the weekly roundtable on MPR News with Kerri Miller in which the subject of reporter transparency made its way into the conversation among the panel of journalists. Read more →
In Michigan, a pediatrician refuses to provide care to the daughter of lesbian parents. It would be illegal in Minnesota. Read more →
Oliver Sacks, 81, the neurologist and author, found out he’s dying soon. He writes today about his new outlook on life and wants us to rethink our own lives.
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Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Garrison Keillor is leaving hints that he’s about to hang it up.
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The Red Cross sent a six-page response to the investigation into disaster services provided by the organization, demanding that NPR and ProPublica issue corrections. It probably shouldn’t have done that. Read more →
The National Transportation Safety Board has been unable to figure out what caused a plane to crash into a Sauk Rapids house last June, killing the pilot and the German exchange student who was getting a sightseeing flight over St. Cloud.
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Unlike his funeral this week, there were no big stars in Boston yesterday to remember David Carr, the Minnesota native and New York Times media critic who died last week. There were only kids — students in Carr’s class at Boston University.
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Bringing back yesterday’s stars is a thing in Minnesota sports now and the Minnesota Timberwolves appear ready to get on board. Read more →
Let’s follow up on last month’s post asking when music in schools is going to get a little respect.
The answer in South Washington County, which sparked the post because it intended to cut music programs in elementary schools, is: tonite. Read more →
Based on a letter to the Pioneer Press today, I was expecting a lot worse on Saint Paul’s Wabasha bridge when checked out the American flags on it today.
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