Yeah, well, it's just a funny little piece, but if you dig a little deeper into what's happening in the newspaper industry all over the country, there's a bit more than meets the eye (in my opinion). The Star Tribune cut around 150 jobs last year, including plenty of talented reporters and editors, yet the gossip columnist -- a thin-skinned one who apparently can't spell -- is one they kept?
Paul Schmelzer is a writer and editor in Minneapolis. Formerly managing editor of Walker Reader(2011–2020), the Walker Art Center's digital magazine, he is cofounder of The Ostracon, an art writing site created through funds from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Creative Capital's Arts Writers Grant program; creator of Signifier, Signed; a former editor at Adbusters; and contributor to Artforum.com, Cabinet, Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, The Progressive, Raw Vision, Utne,and others.More >>
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sounds like we have an old fashioned 'pissing match' over nothing....
Yeah, well, it's just a funny little piece, but if you dig a little deeper into what's happening in the newspaper industry all over the country, there's a bit more than meets the eye (in my opinion). The Star Tribune cut around 150 jobs last year, including plenty of talented reporters and editors, yet the gossip columnist -- a thin-skinned one who apparently can't spell -- is one they kept?
paul
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