Earth To Alix

I've written about Channel 9's Alix Kendall a couple of times in the past. For the most part, she reports the news straight up - until we get into campaign season and then the partisan in her slips into her reports. Todays report was on the 2008 Senate race. As all most Minnesotans know, the DFL State Convention is the weekend and they will probably endorse Al Franken at said convention. In her report this morning about the Senate race, she mentioned that in addition to Franken, Jesse Ventura and Dean Barkley (Independence Party) were considering running to "replace Paul Wellstone who died in office. What Alix didn't mention is that Senator Paul Wellstone died during the campaign six years ago!

If it were not for the fact that Channel 9 has the most "competent" weather department I wouldn't watch this state and if it were not for weather and traffic reports I doubt I would watch local news at all. However, Alix makes it all worth it. She is an endless source of media bias material.