Bill Dooley writes:
I believe I read somewhere that only 18% of Star Tribune readers live within the city limits of Minneapolis. Could this low number be true?
Paul Rohlfing replies:
With over 2,000,000 people in our Metro Area, Minneapolis� 386,000 citizens come out pretty close to making up 18% of the metro area�s total population.
If anything, the Strib probably gives the City of Minneapolis a disproportionate amount of ink given its size relative to the Metro Area as a whole (and, of that coverage, a lot is of the �Fire� and �Murder� variety that is the bread and butter of any major metro daily). The downside of trying to be �The Newspaper of the Twin Cities�, of course, is that (the great work of Steve Brandt notwithstanding) there really isn�t a whole lot of meat in the Strib�s local and neighborhood coverage for us wonkish, nerdy, Mpls List folks to chew on. I end up plowing through the City Pages, Pulse, SW Journal and Southside Pride to get a more complete sense of what�s going on. To me, the Strib has value in that, because of its wider audience, it gives us Minneapolitans a sense of how our city is perceived by those who live elsewhere.
Paul C. Rohlfing Powderhorn W9, P7 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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