Over the past year or so the Star Tribune, under new mangagement, made more and more noticable movements towards being a conservative paper.
Whether is was the gradual decrease of liberal columnists and the increase of conservative ones on the editorial page or the convenient puff pieces on Republican candidates and the front page headlines on anything negative for Democrats, any regular read of the Stib knew that there was something afoot. Michelle Bachmann's comments last week were not covered for days and usually buried in the Metro section. The MN senate race has barely been covered, and when it has been covered, the coverage has been very kind to Norm Coleman while Al Franken can't seem to catch a break.
The final straw in the Star Tribune's rightward drift is now a done deal. In Sunday's editorial page the Star Tribune has endorsed incumbent phony maverick Bush-supporting Republican Norm Coleman.
I don't wish to get too much into the details, this is more of an anti-Strib rant, a rant against a once-decent newspaper that had noticably declined in quality. It's getting late, I'm tired and the world series is on and in the 9th inning, so I'm a little distracted. I don't need my newspaper to be my echo chamber that tells me what I want to hear, but I certainly don't want it to be a right-wing propagandist, a sort of Fox News in the form a newspaper. Endorsing a mediocrity like Norm Coleman in this day and age, in this particular political climate, and in light of the MASSIVE failures of the policies he has supported the Star Tribune should be ASHAMED of itself.
UPDATE: The Phillies just won in the bottom of the ninth! I don't have a dog in this fight, but props to 45 year-old Jamie Moyer who pitched really well for the Phillies tonight.