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Preview-Worst Political Ads In America Awards
Filed Under (Political Ads, Media, Minneapolis, *Top Stories, Minnesota) by mmcintee on May-21-2008

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Tonight (May 21) Growth & Justice, an economic think tank, will hand out the awards for the worst political advertising in America. We’ll bring you the winners of the non-partisan lampooning after they’re announced. The UpTake’s Mike McIntee gets a preview of some of the videos that are in the running from Growth & Justice President Dane Smith.

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Republican Video Tracker Fails To Register, Asked To Stop Taping At DFL CD 2
Filed Under (Media, Al Franken, *Top Stories, Minnesota, Video, Free speech) by jfbarnett on May-3-2008

As reported here earlier, the DFL has a pretty open policy when it comes to letting citizen journalists videotape its conventions. But the DFL does have rules and today we saw what happens when those rules aren’t followed. At today’s DFL CD2 Convention, a Republican video “tracker” was asked to stop videotaping from the visitors section of the Faribault High School auditorium.

DFL CD2 Secretary Jane Miles says the Republican tracker did not register at the sign in table (as is required of all people attending the convention). If he had registered, (in this case as media) he would have been allowed to video tape.

The Republican tracker has been following Al Franken and taping his appearances for some time. The Al Franken campaign knows the individual and actually had no problem with him taping.

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Caught On Camera: GOP Tosses Journalist
Filed Under (Media, *Top Stories, Minnesota, Free speech, Minnesota Blogs) by mmcintee on May-1-2008

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Minnesota’s Republican Party seems very camera-shy. Over the past several months Republicans have prevented journalists from recording their candidates at events. The latest incident was rather dramatic as Gavin Sullivan was tossed out of the Republican convention for district 42B for shooting video.

The UpTake’s Mike McIntee shows us Gavin Sullivan’s video and talks to another journalist who has been tossed out twice from Republican events.

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UPDATE: Gavin provides the backstory to this incident.

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Media Reform Needed After Pentagon TV Scandal
Filed Under (Media, Minneapolis, *Top Stories, Minnesota) by mmcintee on April-29-2008

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The UpTake’s Mike McIntee interviews FreePress.net co-founder Josh Silver about how the Pentagon managed to dupe the media into doing what amounted to pre-scripted interviews with military experts about the invasion of Iraq.

These are the type of issues that will be discussed at the National Conference for Media Reform which will be held in Minneapolis June 6-8, 2008.

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