Bob Collins
Blogs take over war reporting, the cone of silence at the U, making the homeless visible, what happens when police wait a month to investigate a crime, and the Needle Doctor leaves Dinkytown.
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.
A story about the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II brings a flurry of e-mails.
A St. Paul company has produced this time-lapse video showing last week’s conversion of the stadium in New Jersey from a Giants stadium (they played Sunday) to a Jets stadium (they played Monday night).
Zumbrota grabs the bull, just keeping swimming, reading Playboy to the blind, America’s most toxic city, and the clouds as the ocean.
In the aftermath of the NPR’s ombudsman’s original post on Harry Shearer’s complaint, all of the principals involved are online discussing it in the open. Except one.
Every now and again, the curtain is pulled back on the newsroom of National Public Radio. NPR’s ombudsman does so today with the story of Harry Shearer’s complaint that he couldn’t promote his film about Hurricane Katrina on other NPR shows, because he had already been booked to appear on Talk of the Nation.