Star Tribune Hires Right Winger To Run Paper

Why is this important? Because the newspaper bought out by a large conglomerate is promoting its agenda above the interests and values of the local community. No longer will the paper reflect and analyze its community. Instead it will report non-sense and vaguely push an anti-people pro-conglomerate agenda. If this hasn’t happened in your neighborhood (which according to the industry has for 80% of Americans, it will soon) Chris Harte is a newspaperman by birth, a businessman by training, and publisher of the Star Tribune by accident. It was Harte — the point man for Avista Capital Partners' 2006 Strib purchase… However, Harte has made some high-profile changes. Just weeks after Ridder's exit, he ousted longtime editorial page editor Susan Albright, who for 14 years had helmed a section that reliably promoted Minnesota's high-tax, high-service model of government and reliably punished Pawlentyesque penury. In a statement, Harte attributed the move to a "professional disagreement" over his push for more local editorials, which Albright's former deputy, Jim Boyd, termed "silly on its face. ... National editorials were few; international editorials were rare. ... Harte has demanded that editorials in the Star Tribune demonstrate 'no sharp elbows.' So local and bland is his prescription for his editorial page." …For a publisher and private equity guy, the 60-year-old Harte has a fairly public political record. In Maine, where he lived from the early '90s to 2004, Harte has twice lent his name to groups wanting to cap or reduce government spending. He is a co-founder and funder of the Maine Public Spending Research Group (MPSRG), whose mission, according to board chair David Flanagan, "is to identify and develop options for reducing government spending and, by doing so, to move Maine from one of the most highly taxed states to the median among the 50 states over the next 10 years." This article is from the Minnesota Post which was started by disaffected Minnesota Star Tribunes reporters. The Star Tribune was bought out by a corporation that immediately cut staff and “refocused” on local issues which is a euphemism for not actually covering local issues but talking about cats in trees. Because of the quality of its reporting and covering issues such as this, the Minnesota Post is already in its extremely young development is already gaining a strong following. I actually gave to them and feel free to do so as well. RSS Feed