Read STADIUMS. The Star Tribune and the Pioneer Press want publicly funded stadiums and professional sports. They cannot decry funding for Target (and other corporations) and have any credibility left for switching to support their primary reason for living: meeting the needs of professional (and collegiate) sports - which supply directly or indirectly 30% of their revenues and counting. It just looks like the paper has sports sections. At least a third of their front page stories are about professional sports - teams, games, players, coaches. Something all the time.
It's all bottom-line journalism, and the rest of the editorializing will follow, if only to remain consistent with their need to boost support for sports. Sports - the games of life - are never to take a back seat to issues of importance to the paper's constituency. Andy Driscoll Saint Paul ------ "The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who, in times of moral crisis, remain neutral" --Dante > From: "ken bradley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 23:03:49 -0700 (PDT) > To: "List Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'Mpls list'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Mpls] Strib editorial column on new Downtown Target > > > The StarTribune once again playing the role of Public Relations Spin with Jim > Boyd's article regarding the Target Store. > Why does the StarTribune spend so much of its own revenue advocating > subsidizing large downtown development projects for billion dollar > corporations? > What is wrong with politicians or the public questioning large subsidies to > these billion dollar corporations? > How much print space has been spent on advocating Pro Target Store development > over the past 3 years? > Who are the decision makers on the StarTribune editorial board? > Ken Bradley > Corcoran Neighborhood > List Manager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Strib edit writer Jim Boyd criticizes > those who claim the Downtown > Target received a $100 million subsidy, and concludes, "It was a good, > reasonable investment." > > http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/727156.html > > David Brauer > List manager > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________ > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: > http://e-democracy.org/mpls > > > --------------------------------- > Do You Yahoo!? > Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone with Yahoo! by Phone. _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
