Tag: star tribune

Legal Lolitas

Chris Birt — Wed, 14 May 2008 09:58:08 -0500

I have always wondered why certain cars remain off limits to men of a particular age.

If I were king of the fore-e-e-est

Tom Bartel — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:44:54 -0600

I hope you all noticed the bold initiative of the Star Tribune, as expressed on their editorial page on Sunday. Yup, they put their heads together, snorted and wheezed with the Herculean effort, pressed hard on their temples to concentrate the intellect, and made their endorsement regarding tomorrow's "Super Tuesday" nationwide primaries and caucuses.

And you thought they were too timid to actually make an endorsement without doing a focus group first of what they could get away with without offending their ever shrinking base of readers and advertisers.

Lost Files of the Star Trib Readers' Rep

Brian Lambert — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:26:20 -0600

Sunday morning's aren't nearly as much fun anymore. Not long ago I'd heft the Strib off the doorstep, chuck out the ads, the news and the sports and dig right into my favorite column, "The Readers' Representative." Having worked for a decade and a half at a daily newspaper, I miss hearing first hand the way self-criticism is transformed in to self-congratulation, the way dense curtains fall over assurances of transparency, the way anyone and everyone higher up the company ladder is not only always right, but right and brave.

Over the Coals 2007

Cristina Cordova — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:34:33 -0600

BUSINESS

On the other hand, we recommend that you call Duluth “Paris.”

Boned

Rich Goldsmith — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:12:18 -0600

Noam Chomsky says a well-informed populace is a necessary ingredient to any democracy. In other words, we're boned.

Randy, The Reader's Rep ...

Brian Lambert — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:51:04 -0600

(A semi-regular Q&A with "Randy" the new Star Tribune Reader's Representative, most frequently found on the corner stool at the Dry Dock roadhouse, in the shadow of the big microwave tower, Chaffey, Wisconsin.)

Banana Republic Fades into the Sunset

Brian Lambert — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:18:22 -0600

Damn! Over here I keep a list of great story ideas and names of people I've really got to get around to catching up with, just to see what their story is today. Like MPR's Bill Kling. Like all the guys who played in The Warheads years ago. And like Kirk Anderson, the former cartoonist for the Pioneer Press whose heave-ho in April 2003 was early, solid confirmation that "local, local" was going to have more to do with "money, money" and "innocuous, innocuous" than reader appeal.

If you're going to insult me, cancel my subscription first

Tom Bartel — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:45:00 -0600

Here is the first sentence of today's Star Tribune editorial on "Aiding Baby Boomers' Search for Meaning": "The nation's supernumerary baby-boomers have reached what's being gently called "the second half of life," but the big generation is still doing what it has done since its diaper days: It's demanding notice and altering the contours of every phase of life it touches."
Yuk.

Strib's Hage to join Klobuchar

Deborah Rybak — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:18:18 -0500
In what can safely be called a HUGE blow to the Star Tribune's already shaken editorial staff, Dave Hage announced today that he is leaving the paper to join Sen. Amy Klobuchar's staff as communications director. Office scuttlebutt holds that newsroom editor D.J. Tice will be tapped to replace Hage. That makes sense: Doug Tice provided the conservative voice for the Pioneer Press editorial pages when he worked there, and has faced some criticism for allegedly bringing that bent into the Strib newsroom. Moving him back to the opinion pages would solve that

If a Newspaper Falls in the Forest

admin — Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Lost in the loud wailing heard in our little journalistic glade over the clear-cutting of staff at the Star Tribune and Pioneer Press is any serious discussion about what’s being severed: Is it actually worth the efforts of the journalistic tree huggers? To some, the answer is a stentorian “No.”