Secrets of the City

that was a pretty amazing story. bravo.

a side note, that web page has a link to the Smile Network charity. here’s what happens when lawyers run your web site: **The following link(s) are intended as an information source and do not imply an endorsement of any particular product or point of view by KARE 11 News.

There are tens of thousands of stories similar to this out there. They don’t qualify as “news” because they don’t fit into any “journalist’s” political agenda.

Didn’t 4 do a story on this several years ago … even sent Dandy Don down to Guatemala or El Salvador?

I highly recommend the exquisite journalism of Passolt’s new co-anchor on Fox…

Roooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwr.

bud jr … recommending fox news?

NO WAY! I AM STUNNED!

anybody else catch the hard-hitting “good question” last night? “why does 35 degrees feel colder in october than in february.”

i wasn’t gonna say anything, seeing as how somebody got snippy the last time i questioned this little segment….but the girlfriend sees it and goes “that’s a good question? according to who….idiots?.”

I also was disappointed by the question. And they’ve never gotten around to answering my question:

How is it even remotely possible that Homer Simpson and I are supposed to be the same age?

hello I’m your good friend windchill! Meet my pal, humidity!

I submitted that very question last spring, because *I* wanted to know if it was due to physiological and/or psychological reasons. I was happy to learn about metabolic rates, thyroid secretions, vasoconstriction, etc.

But I guess you guys already knew all those details. Good on ya!

Regarding the comments made about WCCO’s Good Question the other day about temperature changes–climates where the temperatures go up and down are a lot harder to deal with than climates that remain constant. I used to live in Tulsa, OK back in the 1980’s, it can be dry and in the sixties one day and then the next morning it can be icy and only in the thirties. Talk about temperature shock on the body!!!!. Four inches of icy or snowy precipitation can bring the town to a standstill. People who have ever lived in the south or southcentral states will know what I’m talking about. At least in Minnesota we’re used to the snow and the cold. Last week we were wearing summer clothes, and now we have windchills and I’m pulling up dead impatiens–it is hard on the body, but things will even out.

That’s good ol’ Kupchella for you. He’s a good guy. Maybe the most under-rated local reporter of in Minnesota. I’ve always been a fan, but I became a huge fan when he did this back in February.

With the exceptions of the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, TV “news” is overwhelmingly crap if your definition of news has anything to do with informing the public rather than telling them how to feel. For the most part television news tells people how to feel about an issue, event, topic, or person. Print (I’m including online journalism in the category”print”) and radio journalism do much more in terms of informing the public.

And, yes, the people who care for those children should be praised for the work they do and I am glad to know about their work.

But TV news still bites in comparison to almost every other form of media journalism.

ALL of the local stations are horrible to watch! From the happy talk between anchors, the shameless self promotion of their newscasts, windows and plazas that don’t mean a damn thing and the over the top production values of the programs (noisy, whizzing, spinning graphics and music) there is virtually no time for anything informative to be presented. I’d say that the bottom really fell out when NewsCorp. got serious about making FOX9 a real contender for market share and revenue and once the slick look of the programs caught on, everyone else followed suit.

Radio is pretty bad as well. WCCO is nothing but constant commercials and plugs for other programs interrupted occasionally for some actual programming….(way to go CBS for fucking up a station like that, nice job!) I’m so glad the Twins won’t be back on there next season! The other AM talkers are filled with programs where the hosts are so full of themselves and their topics and callers always seem to generate more heat than light. KTLK is a mess with personalities being shoved overboard and with no noticeable ratings since they came on the air. NPR/MPR will occasionally have something good on for a story, but I hate the damn begging for money that goes on with them.

My choices for news are BBC World News and The Newshour on TPT, the Pioneer Press and various news magazines.

And what’s with channel 5 now calling themselves “Channel 5 Eyewitness News.” It’s so ridiculous to hear a reporter say “stay tuned for the Twins game on Channel 5 eyewitness news.”

Whoever thought of that deal should be canned.