[Mpls] Sports Fans and a New Stadium

[Ray Marshall]

Like today, forty years ago, the sports pages and the funnies (I still like
Blondie for some unknown reason and I don't believe I have ever smiled at a
strip) were pretty much the highest-read parts of a newspaper.  The
difference was then that there were more people reading the papers.
Television has reduced the number greatly.

Driscoll says we "should follow the money" to determine why the media
supports a new stadium.

Well, if advertisers and readers are in favor of a new stadium, should the
media moguls read the Minneapolis Issues Forum to determine how they should
vote?

I would bet that a goodly number of subscribers here do not either subscribe
to papers or watch local news.  Most of them are too busy attending
meetings.  <GR>  Many will read the paper at the office or the library or
exchange often "mis-information" with each other to get the local political
information they want.

That is the wave of the future, folks.

Ray Marshall
Hiawatha

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Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 12:27:48 -0500
From: Andy Driscoll <andy at driscollgroup.com>
Subject: Re: [Mpls] Annette Meeks supports tax increase: "It's not a
        tax -   it's a user fee" for Stadium Boondoggle

. . .The sports
sections are the first or second highest-read parts of a newspaper these
days (thanks to the dumbing down of main news sections and the infiltration
of fluff on front pages), and have always played a big part in their
success. Why is one third of every local newscast consumed by sports
reporting? Same: follow the money. . . .