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NewsCut

MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

By Bob Collins

Bob Collins
bcollins@mpr.org • @newscut

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.

The story from Egypt CBS wouldn’t tell

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 15, 2011, 4:26 PM Feb 15, 2011
10

Why did CBS tell one story about a celebration in Egypt Friday, while ignoring the story of the sexual assault of one of its reporters?

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Budgetary game day

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 15, 2011, 3:00 PM Feb 15, 2011

How close to reality are proposed budgets?

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The private lives of public individuals considered

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 15, 2011, 1:13 PM Feb 15, 2011
3

Does a reporter have any obligation to reveal things about his/her personal life in the interest of telling a story that needs to be told?

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Live: Gov. Dayton’s budget

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 15, 2011, 10:45 AM Feb 15, 2011
6

Live-blogging the governor’s budget announcement.

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Five by 8

Racism in rural Minnesota? (5×8 – 2/15/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 15, 2011, 7:31 AM Feb 15, 2011
6

Suggestions of racism dog Brainerd, the myth of the green job, matrimony in Mora, neighbors in the news, and can anything save the Minnesota Timberwolves?

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Milwaukee man misses Super Bowl, dies

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 14, 2011, 3:41 PM Feb 14, 2011

The Milwaukee member of the “Never Missed a Super Bowl” club who got plenty of publicity in the weeks before this year’s Super Bowl has died.

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State government vs. county government

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 14, 2011, 2:24 PM Feb 14, 2011
13

Republican lawmakers have filed a bill to freeze spending by counties.

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Regional history

Edgar Hetteen

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 14, 2011, 11:25 AM Feb 14, 2011
1

The man who invented snowmobiles in Minnesota has died.

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Live coverage of a stroke?

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 14, 2011, 10:55 AM Feb 14, 2011
5

There’s an awful story developing out of Los Angeles today.

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Five by 8

Shutdown? (5×8 – 2/14/11)

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 14, 2011, 6:44 AM Feb 14, 2011
3

Playing whack-a-budget, is Minneapolis the next Detroit, embracing the hovercraft, the face of Brainerd, and this news business is serious.

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Leaving Riverview Circle

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 12, 2011, 9:34 AM Feb 12, 2011
1

The Johnsons have given up on fighting the Red River.

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CPB funding issue caught in middle of an old debate

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 11, 2011, 1:50 PM Feb 11, 2011
50

But NPR and PBS picked up an ally today that may not help their cause that much.

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What now in Egypt?

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 11, 2011, 12:55 PM Feb 11, 2011

Differing views on the role of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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Book closed on open sore

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 11, 2011, 12:42 PM Feb 11, 2011

Chandra Levy’s killer was given a 60-year prison term today.

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Mysteries of air transportation safety

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 11, 2011, 10:33 AM Feb 11, 2011
1

If ever there was a lesson in the utter uselessness of government data, it’s the story circulating today that air traffic control system errors are way up.

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