No love lost
Despite providing zero evidence that anything Katherine Kersten wrote about TIZA was in error, Rep. Mindy Greiling is a-okay with calling for her ouster at the Star Tribune. Far less surprising is the Star Tribune’s willingness to run such a letter, extremely short on substance but long on personal attacks, as long as the target is a conservative (even one of their own).
Scott Johnson sums it up nicely:
The Star Tribune provides a sad illustration of how a newspaper can become a corrosive force on the political and civic life of the community it serves. The financial difficulties of the Star Tribune prompt the thought that the Twin Cities and the state of Minnesota would be improved by the paper’s demise.
And certainly not for the first time. While the Strib’s deep-seated and overwhelming bias is well documented and, at this point, essentially a punch line, I am more than surprised that Greiling would start throwing weight around, calling for journalists’ resignations, with little more in her corner than the fact that she visited TIZA and it seemed okay to her.