Bob Collins
If you’re looking for signs of progress in Afghanistan, a country infamous for its trampling of women, this is as good as any. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Media
NPR again pushed back today against an Associated Press story last week that strongly suggested a pro-peace, anti-nuke group in favor of the Iran nuclear treaty gained influence in NPR reporting through a grant to the news organization.
The Ploughshares Fund gave NPR $100,000 last year to fund its coverage of the treaty negotiations and subsequent deal. Read more →
Was NPR complicit in selling the Iran nuclear deal to the public? It matters of journalism ethics, only perception matters. Read more →
You wouldn’t know it by the journalism he’s been turning in, but Minnesota Public Radio reporter MPR reporter Mukhtar Ibrahim has had a challenge other reporters haven’t faced at the trial of three Somali men accused of trying to join the ISIS terror group in Syria. Ibrahim, who is Somali-American, has been singled out for different treatment than his white colleagues. Read more →
‘Could kindness be bad for your health?’ the Valley News Live story asked the other night, noting the Centers for Disease Control report that tuberculosis rates are rising in the country for the first time in 20 years. Read more →
The continuing fight between Public Radio and developing technology spilled into the open again today when an Indiana station said it will stop carrying This American Life because Ira Glass has cut a deal with Pandora to provide exclusive on-demand streaming. Public Radio stations can still stream the shows live on their websites.
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Here’s a pro tip from Washington Post syndicated political columnist Dana Milbank. Don’t ever declare you’ll eat your words if you’re wrong about something. Read more →
What’s done is done. What’s likely to happen is likely to happen. But we’re still left wondering why the area — and, in particular, its local leaders — didn’t appreciate the value of a local newspaper when they had a chance to make a difference.
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MPR News reporter Mukhtar Ibrahim’s been covering the ISIS terror recruit cases for more than a year, so the security people at federal court should know who he is. But yesterday he was prevented from entering the courtroom with the rest of the media. Read more →
This cartoon got a guy fired from Farm News last week.
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We deserve more intelligent coverage that seven minutes of Patrick Buchanan on a soap box.
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In this growing age of artificial intelligence, a good question might be whose jobs won’t be taken by a machine?
News writers? You’re in the crosshairs of your new overlords.
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City Pages, the Twin Cities alt weekly, is under fire in Minneapolis for an anonymously sourced piece critical of a member of the Minneapolis City Council.
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Hallinan was the afternoon newscaster during that time and at the conclusion of Friday’s All Things Considered, Tom Crann provided the appropriate goodbye Read more →
Jad Abumrad, the co-host of the Public Radio podcast, RadioLab, acknowledges now that he’s an ‘elder statesman’ of the art form and Time.com’s video profile of him — American Genius — reveals the genius and brilliance of one of the nation’s best storytellers. Read more →