Bob CollinsNo doubt, the execs at NPR can exhale now that Vanity Fair’s long piece on NPR is out.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
By Bob Collins
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.
The cruise ship from space
Behind every great host
Suicide and shameful secrets, the changed soldiers of Iraq and Afghanistan, where do you get your news, the old gang at Target Center, and embracing winter.
Cruise ship photo: Fake or real?
Mitt Romney’s tax bracket
Eichten, my Eichten
Whatever happened to ‘women and children first,’ tough times in the wild; an orchestra, a viola, and a woman; how it’s all connected to the weather, and how the world might end.
Does ‘the speech’ pass the test of time, putting the ‘awe’ in ‘awesome,’ the human side of scorn, delaying dreams, and the last week of Gary Eichten.
Marv Davidov dead at 80
Watching the people watching Crashed Ice