In a series of promos last week, CNN promised that its look at the Michele Bachmann campaign would be “beyond the sound bites,” and would be “inside the campaign.”
When the product was delivered yesterday, it looked very much like CNN was left outside, with a quick sound bite.
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