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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
By Bob Collins
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.
Israeli researchers have concluded that more physically attractive members of Congress get more coverage on network television.
Former Gov. Jesse Ventura is in the thick of another controversy, this time with a Navy SEAL who says the governor disrupted the wake of a SEAL.
Well there’s your problem right there
Forty-five is the new 60, saving the Arboretum or destroying it, the bus people of Fargo, the Twins natives are restless, and temperatures are up and pants are down.
Mary Steiner made her early trips to Uganda and Kenya to meet poverty. Then she met people.
Several pictures from today’s bombing in Baghdad have haunted me. None of them show the actual bombing and its aftermath, about which it’s easy to become desensitized.
Adrenaline junkie season
Keith Little has died. He helped use a code that confounded the Japanese in World War II.
Occasionally, we get a rare glimpse of how many people are facing a struggle with depression. Today is one of those days.
Facts vs. truth in Bachmann reporting
The blender mystery, Jabby’s fight, post Iowa, swing ’til you puke in a nuke plant, and the art of rejection.
Longview, Minnesota’s Levi LaVallee set a snowmobiling-jumping record on New Year’s Eve when he successfully launched himself over a section of San Diego Bay for a Red Bull stunt.