Seems like new Pioneer Press owner Dean Singleton was in town today to rally the troops and to throw down a gantlet at the feet of Par Ridder, who recently jumped from the PP to the hated Strib and allegedly took some confidential information and a couple of staffers with him. Seems like Par’s not willing to stop at some of his managers, but wants to ferry nearly the whole damn staff of the Pioneer Press across the river. This could be really fun to watch.
Ol’ Fashioned Newspaper War in the Offing?
Apr 5 2007 — 2:00am
13 Reader Comments
6:51 pm
kinda fun to watch all of this. . . if you like watching train wrecks
and I’m trying to decide whom to root for. maybe this calls for a media bracket. . . which obnoxious print personality rises to the top? CJ versus Soucheray? Nick Coleman versus Charley Walters?
7:12 pm
God help me, I still love the Pioneer Press. Go get ‘em, St. Paul!
10:40 pm
An acrimonious crosstown pissing contest to pump up readership. Brilliant!
“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the (news)room!”
10:26 am
I would pay money to see a crosstown newspaper cagematch.
10:28 am
On the subject of newspapers, and white men, anyone know anything about the new news writer for city pages? He appeared in the masthead this week, and by name, it looks the writer is another male. This would mean with the exception of Beth Hawkins, everyone in the news department hales from the male department. And if he is white, everyone would be pale as well. Details?
10:38 am
Race shouldn’t permeate your life, “not a white man.”
11:25 am
It doesn’t, but thanks for your concern, acalhoun. Just curious about the new guy at cp, and I think it’s interesting that the alt weekly in town has little in terms of diversity in its news department. And I’m not just talking about race. It seems heavy in the male department as well.
11:45 am
I heard that white males are the new minority, but I also hear that 35 is the new 25, and that’s not really been working out for me.
12:38 pm
note to self, check and see if http://www.twincitiespressandtribune.com is available for cyber squatting….
1:15 pm
Maria Elena Baca vs. ???
Xio Chong vs. ???
2:30 pm
Bring it on.
2:51 pm
I don’t know who Xio Chong is, but I’ll step in for him.
5:49 am
In our society, there is no “majority”. Everybody is a minority. Of course that overlooks the fact that some minorities are PRIVILEGED minorities, which has also always been the case. Minority and underprivileged has always been a false equation. The most privileged people are in the smallest minorities. So we should stop using the word “minority” as if it implied any disadvantage.