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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Would journalists be better if they worked on campaigns?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 19, 2012, 1:30 PM Sep 19, 2012
6

A journalist recommends poliltical reporters get closer to the action.

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Politics blurs the line between reality and art

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 19, 2012, 12:20 PM Sep 19, 2012
5

An actor who plays a fake character hosted a fundraiser for one of the chaps running for president. So now there’s a report of a little backlash against the beer company for whom the actor’s fake character pitches.

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Keillor continues to walk away from retirement talk

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 19, 2012, 10:52 AM Sep 19, 2012
2

It’s safe to says that we can forget all of that nonsense about Garrison Keillor retiring next year.

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Five by 8

Beyond gluttons and sloths (5×8 – 9/19/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 19, 2012, 7:47 AM Sep 19, 2012
11

It’s not just personal responsibility in the fat biz, the over credentialization of our culture, return of the Babe, do we care how the Romney tape came to light, and turning good teachers into great teachers.

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Voter ID law stumbles, but doesn’t fall, in Pennsylvania

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 18, 2012, 12:36 PM Sep 18, 2012
8

A decision today raises the profile of questions voiced there — and here — about how difficult it will be to get the photo IDs to vote at all.

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Viral video of the day: The guy who doesn’t like cyclists

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 18, 2012, 12:17 PM Sep 18, 2012
8

It’s not spreading as quickly as, say, a Romney fundraiser, but this video is racing around the InterTubes today.

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Lynx at the White House

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 18, 2012, 11:59 AM Sep 18, 2012
1

The Minnesota Lynx are at the White House starting at noon (central). The White House is providing this feed.

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Jimmy Carter’s revenge

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 18, 2012, 11:29 AM Sep 18, 2012
6

The person who tracked down the source of the video of the Mitt Romney fundraiser is Jimmy Carter’s grandson.

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End of the gender-specific school event?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 18, 2012, 11:22 AM Sep 18, 2012

There is the spirit of the law, and there is the letter of the law.

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Randy on racism

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 18, 2012, 10:58 AM Sep 18, 2012
4

Songwriter Randy Newman is calling out what he sees as racism in the presidential campaign.

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Five by 8

Alcohol and the college football fan (5×8 – 9/18/12)

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 18, 2012, 7:42 AM Sep 18, 2012
6

The booze barrier at the U, the blame generation, let a thousand Jon Stewarts bloom, I can see your puny lineup from here, and the case of the purple violin.

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The cardboard challenge

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 17, 2012, 1:43 PM Sep 17, 2012
3

There’s a part two: Other kids who learned the joy of a few cardboard boxes and some imagination.

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The same-sex marriage debate made simple

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 17, 2012, 12:58 PM Sep 17, 2012
7

An online symposium on the issue of same-sex marriage before the Supreme Court.

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Fox and friends and comedians

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 17, 2012, 12:41 PM Sep 17, 2012
5

It doesn’t take much to get on Fox and Friends.

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How bad are things? People ready to go to work for company that fired them

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 17, 2012, 11:39 AM Sep 17, 2012
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Forty-five percent of laid-off workers say they’d go back to work for the company that dumped them, a Temple University study says.

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