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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: Media

Good night and good news

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 31, 2019, 4:20 PM May 31, 2019
41

Running out of things to say (along with health issues) was one of the reasons I gave when I informed people last year that I would retire on my 65th birthday. Today is my 65th birthday. And this is the 17,071st, and last, NewsCut post.
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Arts & Culture

Paul Tosto at workThis blog stood on the shoulders of a giant

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 30, 2019, 1:54 PM May 30, 2019
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Paul Tosto at work

Paul Tosto applauded, supported, defended, and created a fair amount of the material that found its way onto these pages, and he did so without getting or needing attention. At least until today. Read more →

Weather

Meteorologist loses it when viewers complain about tornado coverage

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 29, 2019, 7:10 AM May 29, 2019
15

Everybody has a breaking point and for a TV meteorologist in Ohio, it’s The Bachelorette. Read more →

Politics

N.D. man will be both a state rep and a reporter

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 17, 2019, 4:00 PM May 17, 2019
8

Can a state legislator be both a lawmaker and a journalist? The short answer is ‘no.’ That’s also the long answer, but a North Dakota public radio organization and a newspaper in Grand Forks are going to give it a try. Read more →

This or That

Mass shootings more about men than mental health; male editors don’t buy it

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 16, 2019, 2:16 PM May 16, 2019
33

If you say the word ‘bias’ as applied to journalism, most people will automatically frame it in politics. But a journalist’s piece on Medium this week reveals a bipartisan reality: gender bias.
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This or That

Rochester Post Bulletin sold

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 16, 2019, 11:08 AM May 16, 2019
4

The future of southeast Minnesota’s largest media operation has seemed obvious for the last few years: the Rochester Post Bulletin was likely to be a casualty of the newspaper depression. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Another comment section bites the dust

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 15, 2019, 11:16 AM May 15, 2019
9

The full promise of the internet remains relatively elusive and a decision by the producers of the public radio talk show — 1A — are the latest to prove it. Read more →

Economy

With the death of newspapers, a golden age of ignorance is born

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 8, 2019, 9:59 AM May 8, 2019
105

News media from as far away from Tokyo showed up to document the Warroad Pioneer’s demise because, apparently, even the people of Tokyo care more about Warroad than the people of Warroad. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Stop the music! NPR changed its Morning Edition theme

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 6, 2019, 7:04 AM May 6, 2019
31

To see an example of how humans hate the disruption of change, look no further than the comments attached the New York Times’ story on the new Morning Edition music for NPR. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Listeners respond to a changing American landscape on the radio

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 25, 2019, 8:52 AM Apr 25, 2019
77

Public Radio listeners, appropriately so, are sticklers for accuracy. So it’s at least a little amusing to read this week’s NPR Public Editor (formerly ombudsman) column which tackles the complaints of listeners who object to reporters and hosts pronouncing things correctly — specifically, non-English names.
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Another daily paper cuts print schedule

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 23, 2019, 11:38 AM Apr 23, 2019
2

If a person is walking naked down the streets of Crookston, it may take longer before the residents can read about it in the newspaper.
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The jobs we do · This or That

It got better for a young reporter. Then someone killed her.

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 19, 2019, 3:51 PM Apr 19, 2019
2

This is Lyra McKee, who was shot and killed while trying to do her job on Thursday. She’s a reporter. Read more →

This or That

Iowa guard tells newspaper his story of inspiring prisoners; gets suspended

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 2, 2019, 3:48 PM Apr 2, 2019
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This is the darkness that is descending. Read more →

AP: Call racism what it is

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 29, 2019, 4:45 PM Mar 29, 2019

For obvious reasons, journalists get a lot more worked up about changes in the Associated Press Stylebook — the defacto writing guide for newspeople — than normal people, but occasionally a change signals a cultural or ethical shift in a buttoned-down profession. Read more →

This or That

Neat trick: People want news coverage. They don’t want to pay for it

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 26, 2019, 3:16 PM Mar 26, 2019
38

It’s really not that people don’t want solid news reporting; they just don’t want to pay for it and they’re going to keep that insistence, apparently, until it becomes a moot point. Soon. Read more →

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