It’s only a matter of time before every newsroom is going to have a drone — or at least a radio-controlled helicopter and a GoPro camera.
That appears to be one of the tools the Fargo Forum will be using this year to depict the extent of flooding along the Red River.
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