Stephen Colbert has apologized to the good folks of Canton, South Dakota. He had called the town “North Dakota’s ashtray.”
According to the Argus Leader newspaper, many people in Canton didn’t know who Stephen Colbert is, which, perhaps, is all one needs to know about Canton, South Dakota.
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.
Bob Collins