by Gene Policinski
Published: September 8, 2009
Tags: Afghanistan, Media, military
Afghanistan is about as removed as one could imagine from being at the center of a First Amendment controversy. Nonetheless, there was a dust-up recently over the press’s ability to report freely on U.S. military operations there, and the dust has barely settled.
by Staff
Published: April 7, 2009
Tags: Media, Minnesota Channel, television, TPT, TPTmn
We’ve been struggling with the HDTV rabbit ears in PIM headquarters, ever since DirecTV rolled tpt’s Channel 17 over to the new tpt LIFE channel and never picked up tpt MN, also known as the "Minnesota Channel." DirecTV says that tpt MN is "coming soon," but we also heard elsewhere that they need more satellites or [...]
by Sarah Janecek
Published: July 10, 2008
Tags: Ann Lenczewski, David Brauer, Jill Barcum, Media, Star Tribune
A fascinating exchange between MinnPost’s media writer David Brauer and Star Tribune editorial board writer Jill Burcum flagged an important milestone in Minnesota public affairs.We passed it years ago but I have not yet written about it because, quite frankly, it’s painful.I’ve long respected many of the fine journalists involved, even the ones I have ideologically disagreed with most of [...]
by Staff
Published: August 15, 2007
Tags: Al Franken, censorship, Diebold, Fox News, history, Media, MN-Sen, Norm Coleman, Public Relations, Tech, US Senate Campaign 2008, voting machines, wikiality, Wikipedia
Wired magazine reported yesterday that CalTech graduate student Virgil Griffith matched every one of the millions of ‘anonymous edits’ on the popular reference website Wikipedia to the organizations where the edits originated. Every anonymous Wiki edit created an IP address record, and he simply matched those IP addresses to available lists of who controls them. [...]
by Staff
Published: August 15, 2007
Tags: Al Franken, censorship, Diebold, Fox News, history, Media, MN-Sen, Norm Coleman, Public Relations, Tech, US Senate Campaign 2008, voting machines, wikiality, Wikipedia
Wired magazine reported yesterday that CalTech graduate student Virgil Griffith matched every one of the millions of ‘anonymous edits’ on the popular reference website Wikipedia to the organizations where the edits originated. Every anonymous Wiki edit created an IP address record, and he simply matched those IP addresses to available lists of who controls them. [...]
by Sarah Janecek
Published: August 8, 2007
Tags: Citizen Journalism, David Erickson, I-35W Bridge, Media
Internet marketing guru David Erickson, who owns www.e-strategy.com, has a long and fascinating post on citizen journalism / citizen input about the bridge collapse. Several of David’s most compelling conclusions: Mainstream media still holds citizen journalism at arms length. With the exception of Minnesota Public Radio, almost all of the mainstream media treated citizen journalists [...]
by Sarah Janecek
Published: July 9, 2007
Tags: Brian Lambert, ClearChannel, Media, Radio
Twin Cities radio fans take note: Mick Anselmo, the long-time general manager of local Clear Channel stations, was fired today. Of particular interest to Minnnesota public affairs junkies is 100.3 KTLK FM, which became a conservative talk station under Anselmo's decisionmaking in January 2006. KTLK's ratings numbers — like most of talk [...]
