Move on....nothing to see here....
If you are a follower of the Minnesota media, you have been hearing a lot of that for the last two weeks. On Saturday April 14, almost 7000 people gathered on the steps of the State Capital to protest the revenue grab that is coming out of Democratic Leadership in St. Paul. The local press never really reported on the tax cut rally other than to lump our numbers in with the much smaller Sierra Club global warming rally that was held at the other end of the mall at the same time. Well, the word is finally getting out. Last Saturday, Jason had a column in non-other than the Wall Street Journal. Jason laid out the scenario in his usual blunt style.
"ST. PAUL, Minn. -- What do you call the largest political rally for tax relief in Minnesota history? A non-story, at least according to the Twin Cities media.
Then again, Minnesota taxpayers probably weren't too surprised. The lead anchor for the CBS television affiliate here as well as the Star Tribune of Minneapolis played up a competing "global warming day of action" rally on the mall, while playing down the much larger tax protest just a few hundred feet north on the Capitol steps.
Indeed, on Saturday, April 14, an estimated 7,000 Minnesotans lined up in St. Paul to protest against run-away government spending and a push to feed it with yet with more tax hikes on the "rich." Former State Senator and now Congresswoman Michelle Bachman told me it was one of the largest rallies -- if not the largest -- she had ever seen at the Capitol.
Not bad. But rather than report that tax protestors far outnumbered a much better financed (MoveOn.org was sending email reminders) Sierra Club event by at least 2-1, local news outlets merely noted the combined totals for both. The local CBS affiliate also posted an Internet story on the global warming get-together using video footage of our anti-tax rally. Under protest, the piece was pulled."
Well it sounds like this column did what it was supposed to do. Jason was talking (in the first hour of his program today) that he was interviewed on the subject by both CNN and Glenn Beck. Jason will be on Glenn's MSNBC program tonight. Both Glenn and the CNN interviewer were dumbfounded by the fact that the local media totally ignored this story!
All I can say is "It's about time". The Minneapolis Star Tribune (aka Prairie Pravda) has long been a mouthpiece of the state and national Democratic Parties. Maybe a little pressure from their national peers will be just the ticket to turn things around.....Oh who am I kidding! The national media is just as bad.......
Oh well, I can dream.
"ST. PAUL, Minn. -- What do you call the largest political rally for tax relief in Minnesota history? A non-story, at least according to the Twin Cities media.
Then again, Minnesota taxpayers probably weren't too surprised. The lead anchor for the CBS television affiliate here as well as the Star Tribune of Minneapolis played up a competing "global warming day of action" rally on the mall, while playing down the much larger tax protest just a few hundred feet north on the Capitol steps.
Indeed, on Saturday, April 14, an estimated 7,000 Minnesotans lined up in St. Paul to protest against run-away government spending and a push to feed it with yet with more tax hikes on the "rich." Former State Senator and now Congresswoman Michelle Bachman told me it was one of the largest rallies -- if not the largest -- she had ever seen at the Capitol.
Not bad. But rather than report that tax protestors far outnumbered a much better financed (MoveOn.org was sending email reminders) Sierra Club event by at least 2-1, local news outlets merely noted the combined totals for both. The local CBS affiliate also posted an Internet story on the global warming get-together using video footage of our anti-tax rally. Under protest, the piece was pulled."
Well it sounds like this column did what it was supposed to do. Jason was talking (in the first hour of his program today) that he was interviewed on the subject by both CNN and Glenn Beck. Jason will be on Glenn's MSNBC program tonight. Both Glenn and the CNN interviewer were dumbfounded by the fact that the local media totally ignored this story!
All I can say is "It's about time". The Minneapolis Star Tribune (aka Prairie Pravda) has long been a mouthpiece of the state and national Democratic Parties. Maybe a little pressure from their national peers will be just the ticket to turn things around.....Oh who am I kidding! The national media is just as bad.......
Oh well, I can dream.
Labels: Jason Lewis, Journalists and Media, Star Tribune
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