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NewsCut

MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

By Bob Collins

Bob Collins
bcollins@mpr.org • @newscut

Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.

An ailment for what ails newspapers

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 10, 2008, 5:43 PM Jul 10, 2008
1

A North Carolina subscribers sues his local newspaper over staff cutbacks.

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The battleground watch

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 10, 2008, 4:08 PM Jul 10, 2008
1

Will presidential candidates love us as much in 2008 as they did in 2004?

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Airline lobbyists

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 10, 2008, 3:37 PM Jul 10, 2008
2

A day after whacking its customers with new fees, and announcing hundreds of layoffs, Northwest and other airlines asks its customers to help lobby.

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Zimmermann returns

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 10, 2008, 2:00 PM Jul 10, 2008

The former member of the Minneapolis City Council is serving the last months of his sentence for bribery.

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It’s official!

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 10, 2008, 12:50 PM Jul 10, 2008
2

Political candidates make media hay by doing something everybody already knew they were doing.

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Birds and babies

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 10, 2008, 9:20 AM Jul 10, 2008
2

Pressing news notwithstanding, birds and babies dominated the front pages of the state’s newspapers today.

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A missile too many

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 10, 2008, 8:58 AM Jul 10, 2008
2

Someone faked part of a photograph showing Iranian missiles being launched.

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A work-around for NWA’s fees

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 9, 2008, 5:44 PM Jul 9, 2008
12

Surely, we can put our heads together and come up with a plan to beat the airlines at their own game!

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Surveys and trivia

How and when?

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 9, 2008, 5:25 PM Jul 9, 2008
7

If you don’t choose ‘cancer’ or ‘heart disease’ as your preferred way to die, a geriatrician says you’ve chosen “demential and frailty.”

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Jesse being Jesse

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 9, 2008, 9:57 AM Jul 9, 2008
13

When it comes to media attention, is Ventura using Brett Favre’s playbook? Or is Favre using Ventura’s?

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Surveys and trivia

Because it’s there

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 9, 2008, 8:00 AM Jul 9, 2008
10

While you’re working today, a guy in Pasadena is sitting in each of the 92,542 seats at the Rose Bowl.

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Smurf politics

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 8, 2008, 4:41 PM Jul 8, 2008
6

We now know a major issue in the campaign for the Minnesota House this year.

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Editorial kerfuffle

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 8, 2008, 4:31 PM Jul 8, 2008
6

When should journalists disclose the business interests of an increasingly diverse ownership?

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Surveys and trivia

The Congress we don’t like

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 8, 2008, 4:11 PM Jul 8, 2008
3

… is the Congress we re-elect.

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The rights in the castle

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 8, 2008, 12:11 PM Jul 8, 2008
9

Two incidents spark a debate on when your home is your castle.

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