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.
With just a month left until Primary Election Day and four months to go until the mid-term elections, a sad reality is making itself more obvious for people who use the Internet to follow political news: This campaign season is one of the worst for innovation in political coverage.
Watching this video posted by some Minnesota sky diver enthusiasts today is a good way to think that maybe you didn’t wring everything you could out of the weekend.
Why is our creativity declining, where is Minnesota’s money going, the man who can make people like something about the Yankees, interracial marriages, and the gorilla test revisited.
If you’re of my generation, then this headline today is transporting you back to the ’50s and ’60s.
Every morning, it seems, we’re greeted with another shooting, another fatality in a car crash, an ATV accident somewhere, another life lost. Little effort goes into finding the humanity behind any of the stories but Austin Daily Herald reporter Mike Rose provided a good example today of why we in the business should try harder.
When the Star Tribune referred to a race between two women as “red hot,” what did it mean?
Your homesick stories, it’s fun again in Canby, big dreams in Lake Vermilion, anti-Obama posters in the workplace, and a tale of two dogs.
Nationwide, the difference in percentage increase of people working for temp (temporary) services vs. those who are holding permanent jobs has never been bigger.
Bob Collins
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