Secrets of the City

Sir Charles Bell called. He wants his palsey back!

Well, that explains the Droopy Dog look. Get well soon, Norm!

BTW, Tom Elko, late of The Uptake and MinnIndy, is now the news director of Bring Me The News (of alfredo garcia?).

“How would someone without health insurance cope with the situation you find yourself in?”

Astonishingly smug and tacky.

Coleman’s private citizen. Let him go on the mend.

If he’s a private citizen, then why publish the story about his illness at all?

My guess is that he was glad to be able to explain his health status, before rumors that he was drunk, or had a stroke, etc. circulated.

And you know they would…

An aside: Bell’s Palsey is fairly common among pregnant women, for reasons yet unknown.

You disagree he’s a private citizen?

I don’t. He is, however, still a public figure, as well as being a private citizen.

He also seemed quite willing to be interviewed, so what’s the problem?

You might as well ask why is the Pioneer Press still doing this series, Rat?

Here’s the KARE-11 take on Rick’s new gig.

He’s a former senator. If you’re going to interview him anyway, questions about politics hardly seem crass to me, but, instead, perfectly logical.

If he’s a private citizen, then why publish the story about his illness at all?

Well, just because it was published doesn’t mean that his private citizen status was revoked. People publish a lot of things about private citizens (Gawker…The Blake/Breck story from yesterday).

Still, whether Coleman is a private citizen right now is up for debate. But really, this is not an interesting story.

“If you’re going to interview him anyway, questions about politics hardly seem crass to me, but, instead, perfectly logical.”

I concur. But I don’t know that what we’re discussing is a political question.

Also, jpb, I thought the Daily Show had established that Droopy Dog was Joe Lieberman’s character.

How would somebody without insurance coep with Bell’s palsy? The day before Obama arrives to talk about health care? When Pawlenty is talking about invokaing state’s rights to refuse a Congressional health care plan? When Bachmann is saying there will be death panels? When the census just came out with the news that 8 percent of Minnesotans are uninsured?

If that’s not a political question, there are no political questions.

But his ailment is a private matter, don’t you think?

No. He agreed to the interview. He allowed it to be public.

Better that we ask our former lawmakers about their medical conditions than in Kentucky, where they arrest them as murder suspects.

No link, but I’m sure you read about it later…

Yes, he did. I just don’t know what the health care debate — in the macro sense — has to do with a story about his personal illness.

Interestingly, my wife and I were just discussing New York Times vs Sullivan, the case that defined just who a “public figure” is, and how libel cases are defined. Coleman would certainly qualify under the criteria this case established.

She is studing to become a paralegal, and I took a very difficult communications law course in college, which I loved.

YetAnotherNewsOutlet.

How is this any different than any of the other multitudes or even this site for that matter. Because the Kupper a veteran news hound is at the helm?

Show me some innovation.

Is it a widget that lives on my cell phone and pushes news?

Does it bring me a dainish?

Will it play news clips while I fast forward through commercials on comcast?

Does Rick fly to my house in a dirigle and personally keep me abreast of the news climate?

Why is it compelling?

I guess I’ll have to wait till sunday to find out.

Within the first 20 seconds of the interview, Coleman offers up that he was in Washington, DC the previous week.

That seems like something worth of going following up on.

I think bring.mn has a lot of potential for success with the combination of journalism, technical, and online media talent they’re starting out with along with some of the partnerships they’re launching with.

To add to ryanol’s list:

Does it provide captioned video?

And Rat:

people usually use personal experience to inform and influence their positions on political issues.

That’s certainly one way.

A friend of mine had bell’s palsy. It’s not so fun — every time you smile, you look like Two Face.

Two Face? Surely you meant,
that public figure,
Harvey Dent.

I hope that coin
lands on its head
’cause if it’s tails,
we’ll all be dead!

(cups hands to yell really loud)

HEY KUPPER WHATS GONNA BE SO GREAT ABOUT YOUR NEW GIG?

ryanol, Here’s something I’m excited about: BringMeTheNews has licensed this interview through Creative Commons 3.0.

I was really pleased to see organizations like WCCO, and Pi Press, MPR, Star Tribune, and some others use our video or a quote from Norm, with attribution.

Although I’m now consider putting RSS behind a pay wall just to see if I can egg Ed into throwing a phone book at me.

Hey thanks for showing up. I imagine your pretty busy today.

Creative commons is cool but sharing on facebook/social media…thats really just par for the course these days, how are you guys gonna shine?

The logo looks as if it is like a play button. Will this be push based news delivery?

The moniker, the descriptions all point to this being a tool but I look and it seems mostly just a site.

How do you plan on differentiating- quality video is nice but I think you might need more.

Ryanol, you can use it for a youtube mashup or something.

Already on it bix..trying to see if my brother has vjam…time to remix some kupper, classic sitcom charecters and maybe even a few un pc cartoon figures

just don’t know what the health care debate — in the macro sense — has to do with a story about his personal illness.

Isn’t healthcare about illness? I mean, after all, there’s no such thing as an impersonal illness. Rat, would you say the same about an active politician as opposed to a retired one?

I don’t know.

All I know is this is his own personal struggle to overcome a medical condition, and I don’t think politics plays a role in that.

I know that the old saying that the personal is the political is a notion that rose out of an era, possibly the ’60s or ’70s. I just don’t think I ascribe to it.

I wonder a little bit about all the different things that Rick has his hands in — and how he’s going to keep conflicts of interest out of the site.

To have the founder of the site be the anchor – and have a financial interest in the site — is an interesting conflict. I suppose that’s largely solved by aggregating 90% of the content.

And the other anchor is Amy Hockert.. I love Amy, but she lives in Washington, D.C. most of the time. I guess if she’s just reading the news, that Tom and Taylor are aggregating, no one will care.

It’s fascinating, in a way. There is a value in aggregating content. And no one’s aggregating it in the form of a radio newscast. I would find it useful to hear in my car the coolest things breaking on blogs.

However, I wonder about the legality of aggregating copyrighted content (like news from MinnPost or WCCO.com or wherever) and broadcasting it on the radio (where there is no possibility for a return link) for-profit. Just asking, I really don’t know the answer.

If Bringmemhenews does a story critical of — or even questioning — the President’s health care plan, expect the funding by UnitedHealth to come up.

sounds like bringmethenews.com made out pretty well at the Fourth Estate Sale.

I’ve checked it a couple of times this morning and it doesn’t appear to be updating to frequently. I like my news minty fresh.

I guess I assumed that since it was aggregating it might be a live updating type of product.

Here is my sloppy first take on a remix, you’ll have to turn up your audio to here my part (during the black screen)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTTKGDMrB28