{"id":798,"date":"2006-10-15T23:23:19","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T04:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=798"},"modified":"2010-11-10T07:24:31","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T12:24:31","slug":"red-alert-the-local-press-is-freezing-harry-out-of-its-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=798","title":{"rendered":"Red Alert &#8211; The Duluth Trib is freezing Harry out of its debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\"><a href=\"mailto:mbuscaglia@duluthnews.com%20%3Cmbuscaglia@duluthnews.com%3E\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal; color: red; font-family: Verdana\"><strong>Email the Publisher<\/strong><\/span><\/a><strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal; color: red; font-family: Verdana\"> of the Duluth News Tribune and tell her to let me participate in the congressional debate that they are hosting this Friday on <\/span>Duluth&#8217;s public television. They only invited the &#8220;major party&#8221; candidates&#8221; Rod and Jim. <\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\"><strong \/><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\"><strong>It seems a shame that Minneapolis Public Television saw fit to include me while the Duluth Newspaper has chosen to exclude an independent voice from their forum. Perhaps this is what ownership by a Moorhead based company means for Duluth. How ironic that the new owner of our newspapar calls itself the Forum!<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\"><span \/><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\"><strong>Those who watch <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/video1.tpt.org:8080\/ramgen\/almanac\/show\/2007.rm?start=25:20\"><strong>the first televised debate<\/strong><\/a><strong> will see me turn the debate from bickering over the subject of Jim&#8217;s trips to France to the War in Iraq and the National Deficit. Rod and Jim only proved how bent they are on keeping the nation divided along partisan lines The Trib&#8217;s coverage of this very national debate has been pretty pathetic. Just look at their pathetically brief and <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.welty4congress.org\/Questionnaires\/dntqs.htm\"><strong>parochial questionnaire<\/strong><\/a><strong> for congressional candidates. Basically the Trib wants to know if we can have a Bridge to Nowhere too.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Email the Publisher of the Duluth News Tribune and tell her to let me participate in the congressional debate that they are hosting this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,56,47,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798"}],"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=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}