Bob CollinsHow far should the media go to get information about a story.
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.
Are best friends a bad thing, Michele Bachmann and the conservative 6th, President Obama’s high falutin’ five-letter words, a John Wooden moment, and the picture of the day.
The former head of the Minneapolis bomb squad fights the city for treatment of his brain injury.
200 skydives to fight Parkinson’s Disease, headlines we never thought we’d read, your best summer job ever, the shifting state Supreme Court, and whatever happened to the wayward Northwest pilots?
Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Matt Entenza may be trailing in the polls, but he’s been the runaway leader in using media to get his face in front of as many people as his deep pockets will allow.
Duy Ngo’s funeral, the futility of the crossword puzzle, Leonard Nimoy retires, lightning strikes a Jesus statue, and born to be mild in Sturgis.
Today’s viral video, coupled with what we learned from Helen Thomas’ man-on-the-street interview a week or so ago, is a good reminder that if someone sticks a camera in your face on the sidewalk, it’s good for your career to keep walking:
Do you have a right to see the oil, is it OK to be tough on politicians, should joggers do more walking, is there life after the National Guard deployments, and why do gardeners use seed bombs?
Songs in the key of oil
The comedic road to the White House, failure is an option in the Gulf, a bag of donuts makes incompetence better, why do soccer fans insist I watch more soccer, and the end of climate change fear.