With the likelihood of bankruptcy looming and employees streaming out the doors, Bill McAuliffe offers a depressing behind-closed-doors look at the world of the Star-Tribune (via): I do wish someone would remove the Peanuts statues from the park across the street, but the person who put them there probably thinks they’re morale boosters, even with their peeling paint. Though that person very well might be gone…
But, hey, it’s not all bad news. Katherine Kersten might be hanging around.
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2:46 pm
Fuck?!
It’s incredibly lame to write an “Adios” letter and then stay on.
It’s like “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.” Kersten is the evil Terminator and sensible people are Claire Danes.
“Why don’t you just die, bitch???!!”
2:48 pm
Clarification: I don’t really want her to die. I just don’t want her unresearched bile destorying the Strib any more than the paper can effortlessly destroy itself without her.
2:54 pm
It wouldn’t bother me if she choked to death on the large “member” of some rough-trade she picked up on Craigslist.
3:03 pm
Here’s a solution The Rat found pretty effective.
Don’t like her: Don’t read her.
Eventually she won’t even cross your mind as you peruse the paper, or those enlightening aforementioned sections of Craigslist.
3:03 pm
…than the paper can effortlessly destroy itself without her.
Like sourcing an article to Pravda online, and treating it as a straight-up news story?
note: I don’t remember the earlier version of the story I read this morning containing the rebuttals form the UMD and UM-TC geology professors.
3:26 pm
The poll accompanying the story is the most depressing thing ever.
4:15 pm
But… it’s cold out, it’s obvious Al Gore made up global warming to raise taxes!
8:27 pm
And I hate the Strib for doing that story, because tonight my Good Question deals with the Ice Age.
8:59 pm
Reusse calls it the “den of gloom”.
9:32 pm
It’s only a matter of time before the Strib starts sourcing the Iraqi Information Minister.