Letter To The Grand Forks Herald: Why Didn’t You Cover The Tea Party?

Proof • July 10, 2009

The dissatisfaction with North Dakota’s mainstream media continues to grow:

NORTHWOOD, N.D. — I must say I am extremely disappointed about the Herald’s lack of coverage of the tea party that took place July 2 in Bismarck. There were more than 1,000 people gathered from North Dakota, Minnesota, South Dakota and beyond. You took the time to cover Sen. Byron Dorgan visiting with a few people, yet when 1,000 people gather to promote the U.S. Constitution, which, as James Madison put it, “is the greatest single effort of national deliberation the world has ever seen,” and as our first president remarked, “approaches nearer to perfection than any government hitherto instituted among men,” you are silent.
It is shocking to me that a 1,000-plus person demonstration was ignored. As one sign said, “Norwegians protesting? Uffda, it must be bad.” This is not about Republicans or Democrats. We did not approve of TARP one offered under George W. Bush.
But the spending in the past six months, that is more than every administration in the past 30 years, is outrageous. It was the last straw that finally got this Norwegian off the couch. The speed at which Obama and Congress is moving our country further from freedom and closer to tyranny is unbelievable and unconstitutional. I would hope the voices of 1,000-plus nonviolent, concerned people is worth a few drops of ink.

At some point, reporters in this state are going to have to learn that “news” is more than just whatever is on the press releases they get.

Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Politics

http://Array sayanything-4625

Cover a tea party? Gotta be kidding me.

Why not? Its not like they are going broke or anything and could reach to new customers.
ellinas

Cover a tea party? Gotta be kidding me.
http://verion.com/ ND in MD

“Do all the North Dakota papers and T V stations run off the same script?”

I am not sure if it is true, someone correct me if I am wrong, but the Fargo Forum, GF Herald (several other newspapers in that region of the country) and all ABC television stations in ND are owned (or were owned) by the people who own the Forum.

So, a simple answer to your question maybe, almost all.
raj58045

Responsible journalism has been dead for quite some time now. If the so-called journalists on TV and in print ever got off their tails to see what goes on in the real world, they might figure that out.
http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

I am not sure if it is true, someone correct me if I am wrong, but the Fargo Forum, GF Herald (several other newspapers in that region of the country) and all ABC television stations in ND are owned (or were owned) by the people who own the Forum.

So, a simple answer to your question maybe, almost all.

The Fargo Forum, GF Herald, Duluth News Tribune and Bemijdi Pioneer are all run by Forum communications. The Grand Forks Herald is run by Mike Jacobs who is a self professed Liberal and if can stomach his editorials you can gleam that is a unapologetic bleeding heart liberal. They also don’t care what the normal rubes like you and me think. Hence the reason they keep cutting people and pages from the papers. Fargo is becoming just as bad a newspaper.
http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

Any chance there is going to be a tea party in Grand Forks, ND….
RJ Richards

I wrote a note to Mike Jacobs today and I am going to no longer read the Herald. It’s gone to far. I’ll get my hockey news from Goon and my political news from sayanything, drudge, WSJ, and Washington Times online. The Herald and the left news need to fade away. Mike Jacobs is a joke.
sayanything-4625

Talk to the hand? Are you female now?
Brent

At some point, reporters in this state are going to have to learn that “news” is more than just whatever is on the press releases they get.

You know, it is funny, Rob, because I was going to suggest that you would have got more press coverage if you had sent out a press release. =)
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

Perhaps they were all at the “secret bar-b-q” being brainwashed by Obama!
jimmypop

memo to you guys: after you fuck up for a decade while calling the other side â€˜terrorists’, nobody has any sympathy for your whining. this is like asking why they don’t cover snivelling children. lay in the bed you made.

but libbys ran the country two long years before everything fell apart.
sayanything-6955

Do all the North Dakota papers and T V stations run off the same script?
sayanything-6955

I know some T V anchors are just that, anchored to there damn chairs. K F Y R anyone?
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

memo to you guys: after you fuck up for a decade while calling the other side ‘terrorists’, nobody has any sympathy for your whining. this is like asking why they don’t cover snivelling children. lay in the bed you made.

that said, i fully support your right to publicly make an ass out of yourself. if you had remotely undangerous political opinions, perhaps people would give a shit. until then, perhaps you should talk to the hand.
http://sayanythingblog.com robport

You know, it is funny, Rob, because I was going to suggest that you would have got more press coverage if you had sent out a press release.

We did send one out, actually.

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