Bob CollinsWhy did NBC pull a reporter from Gaza as Israel launched its ground offensive against Hamas?
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Archives for July 2014
After the apparent shooting down of a civilian airliner over Ukraine today, many airlines are joining the directive to stay away from Ukraine. Read more →
As usual, Performance Today host Fred Child provides today’s vicarious escape from the monotony of the cubicle farm. Just not the way he usually does. Child took his flight while on break at the Aspen Music Festival this week. (h/t: Brad Althoff)
NPR is backing off its plan that many journalists thought was intended to take the teeth out of its ombudsman position. Read more →
Ten percent of teachers surveyed spend more than $1,000 of their own money each year on their classroom. Read more →
You can probably understand why Nathan Steffel didn’t want to remember his daughter like this. But he didn’t have much choice. “Since she was in the hospital her whole life we never were able to get a photo without all her tubes,” he wrote this week on Reddit. His daughter died in a Cincinnati children’s Read more →
Paul Tosto
The story of how a Home Run Derby ball damaged a kid’s hand? It’s not true. Read more →
A woman who worked at a McDonald’s in South Carolina probably would’ve been happier leaving her nine-year-old daughter home alone, but the home was burglarized and the laptop which might’ve provided a little entertainment was stolen. So Debra Harrell dropped the girl off at a park about a mile from where she worked. The mother Read more →
The brewing crisis on America’s southern border should pretty much kill any chance of immigration reform in the future, the Washington Post reports today. Republican support for any plan that allows undocumented immigrants to stay in the U.S. has plunged since February. Nothing got done in Washington when there was actually support for getting something Read more →
Whenever Minnesota examines its Minnesota Niceness, we are prompted to make popcorn, prop our feet up and watch the unfolding entertainment. We’d invite the neighbors over for the fun but we’ve never met them since they moved in two or three years ago. But that’s a story for another day. The Star Tribune kicked off Read more →
What do you do if you’re a trash hauler with customers who don’t pay their bills? In Red Wing, you give them some trash back. Read more →
It is an ill-kept secret that your NewsCut host wants to catch a baseball (foul or fair; doesn’t matter) at a major league game before he expires on the planet. Like this guy almost did in the upper deck at Target Field during the Home Run Derby the other night. Jordan Jacobson stuck out his Read more →
Most of the publicity around small jets for people has focused on Duluth-based Cirrus, which has put a lot of its future in the hands of the VLJ, the very light jet concept. But at nearly $2 million apiece, that’s not an aircraft for typical people. That’s an aircraft for corporations and businesspeople who don’t Read more →
A new study analyzing reporting of political debates finds that political journalists are more stenographers than journalists, depending on how you view the word “objectivity.” Read more →
It probably didn’t get much notice at last night’s All Star game, except, of course, by the people who were at Target Field. But on Twitter last evening, Eileen Smith posted a pretty poignant moment on the Jumbotron. WWII and Korean War vet on the jumbotron at the #ASG. #mlb #hero @twins usher for 14 Read more →