Author: Brian Lambert

Sunday night I had had enough of Imus. It wasn’t quite, “Get me back to Anna Nicole,” but the pile-on was complete … in terms of Imus. As I’ve said previously the whole episode is fascinating for the sense of cultural tipping point it brings. Worse things have said by worse chronic offenders. But several…

Dane Smith, the Star Tribune’s capital guy for umpteen-God-million years — that’s a joke — has traded up to a job as president of his former boss, Joel Kramer’s non-profit, Growth and Justice think tank. I quote the release here: Hello friends and colleagues, We invite you to join us in welcoming Dane Smith as…

St. Paul Pioneer Press union chairman issued this note today regarding ex-publisher Par Ridder’s system for squeezing ad execs. Obviously Ridder’s successor, Fred Mott, was willing to play along. 21-year veteran terminated after two years on so-called ‘PIP’ Fri, April 13, 2007 at 12:56 Longtime advertising account executive Larry Olson was fired today — after…

I suspect I’m not alone in believing there are at least two elephant-in-the-room-sized topics the Star Tribune’s in-house, salaried, reader representative/ombudsman, Kate Parry, could have moved on Sunday rather than a fusty dissection of ethical overreaching in the Eric Black-Doug Tice blog, “The Big Question”. But that’s just me, I guess. I mean, Parry’s own…

The following circulated through the Star Tribune newsroom last Friday on its way to Gov. Pawlenty: Dear Guild members, You might be interested in this description of how Star Tribune management is treating our brothers and sisters in the Advertising Operations Department. There will be more information on this soon. Respectfully, Unit officers Dear Governor…

Unlike your average legal filing, the complaint Dean Singleton’s Media News Group has dropped on Par Ridder and Avista Capital Partners is a damned good read. Maybe that’s because Singleton has hired a former Star Tribune reporter, Dan Oberdorfer, to bring the case against the new owners and operators of his old paper. The complaint…