[Mpls] Strib park board editorial

[Dorie Rae Gallagher]

Good post and accurate. The Star Tribune is failing in being a star 
newspaper
and has been failing for many years. Just the endorsement process they put
forth as newsworthy is enough to chill bones. Four years ago, they accused
a candidate about lying about the church he went to...fact over fiction...he 
had
been going to that church for about many years! What difference did it make?

Samantha Smart has advocated for private and business partnerships for the
libraries along with some other innovative ideas. What do they say about 
her..
she is against them. This should be laughable but instead it is so wrong it 
hurts to
the core. These are people's lives and beliefs that these untruths are being 
said
about.

Yet the real truths seem distant for the Strib. They fringe the information 
and
listen to the status quo...what we read in the Strib is what the Strib wants 
us
to read and be influenced by.. I will not be influenced by poor journalism,
select journalism and place blame beyond the writers.

Dorie Rae Gallagher/Nokomis



>> http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5702545.html
>
> What a mishmash of ill-informed, wrong-headed arguments and beliefs, mixed 
> with some accurate and reasonable statements.  It's clear the Star Tribune 
> has no real clue what is going on at the Park Board, and neither do its 
> editorial writers, who seem to try to be everything to every voter in this 
> editorial.
>
> Maybe if they did a little investigate journalism, instead of listening to 
> the spin that Walt Dziedzic regularly delivers to them via telephone calls 
> and in-person visits, they might have a clue.  But when was the last time 
> anyone saw any investigate journalism in the Star Tribune -- was it 15, 20
> Meanwhile, the editorialists contradict themselves in the same article, on 
> the one hand extolling Theodore Wirth's vision and strongly criticizing 
> terrible Park Board decisions like the purchase of the new headquarters 
> building -- and on the other hand, endorsing the very cronies who work to 
> stamp out everything
>
> How about fact checking?  That seems to be another foreign activity to 
> these editorial writers -- something that I thought was part and parcel to 
> running a newspaper, or at least, once upon a time.  They claim the 
> Minneapolis Citizens for Park Board Reform have invented blunders on the 
> part of the Controlling Faction.   http://www.MplsParkWatch.org/--
> Chris Johnson
>
>
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