Conservative Blogs Get Victory Over Star Tribune

Here's a good story about grass root right-wing blog sites making an impact on the left-wing mainstream media. It is a story about the the changes the Star Tribune had to make after they let their left-wing biases take precedent over journalism.

As one Strib veteran tells the Mole, "The right-wing blog voices that were bashing the paper a couple of years ago, Hugh Hewitt and the rest, have gotten pretty much everything they wanted. The GOP wanted the Minnesota Poll gone, and now it's gone. They wanted to get rid of people like [editorial board members] Jim Boyd and Susan Albright and their editorial policy, and they've succeeded at that. Now there won't be editorials about the war and global warming; they'll write about local issues like zoning conflicts in Coon Rapids instead. They wanted the paper to hire a conservative columnist, and they got that. From here on out, it looks like the Strib becomes the conservative, suburbs-oriented paper, and the Pioneer Press will become the paper of the city underdogs and the blue voters.

Of course, the Star Tribune will never turn into a conservative paper, although the fact that the internal concern exists is entertaining. It's also interesting that when a left-wing news paper tries to make small steps to be more moderate, individuals of the far left will probably consider it a conservative paper.