{"id":2469,"date":"2009-08-05T07:20:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T12:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2469"},"modified":"2017-03-02T16:45:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T21:45:56","slug":"duluth-news-trib-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2469","title":{"rendered":"Duluth News Trib &#8211; RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duluth News Trib RIP<\/p>\n<p>I knew what I had to do immediately upon opening the Trib\u2019s Opinion Page. I got an old sign board, scrubbed off the old painted message and painted a new one.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/InternetPics\/TribRIP.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/InternetPics\/TribRIP.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s bad enough when the Trib writes stories because it has been snowed. Its happened before. In fact, it\u2019s one of the critical elements in a book I set aside writing about one of Minnesota\u2019s greatest scandals to defend the right of Duluth citizens to vote on the Red Plan. In that case the whole state was snowed by the attorneys for a lot of Very Important People who wanted to perfume their dirty laundry rather than wash it.  But it\u2019s quite another thing for a newspaper that knows what\u2019s going on to do the snowing itself or (which may be the case here) to bend over backward not to know.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/127004\/\">Opinion piece <\/a>has been queued up for a long while now just waiting the chance to be written. The occasion was an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/127006\/\">ostensibly neutral forum <\/a>by the Duluth Chamber of Commerce to discuss the pros and cons of alternatives to the Red Plan. If it was anything like the Chamber forum I attended a year ago it was a stacked deck. That Forum was salted with Red Plan supporters who, after the forum was over, voted overwhelmingly in favor of the Red Plan. The Trib being the Chamber\u2019s unofficial newsletter reported the jiggered results as though it was news. The candidates challenging the School Board this year knew this and decided to skip the forum. Big Whup! Voters who want to know what\u2019s happening in our schools can\u2019t trust the Trib to report it.<\/p>\n<p>I took the Newspaper\u2019s editors to task two years ago for not speaking up in defense of Duluth\u2019s voting rights. If the Duluth News Tribune isn\u2019t going to be a watchdog for its reader\u2019s why should its readers care whether Forum Communication\u2019s stockholder\u2019s lose money on their over-leveraged menagerie of small town papers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duluth News Trib RIP I knew what I had to do immediately upon opening the Trib\u2019s Opinion Page. I got an old sign board,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20696,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions\/20696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}