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| Rufus Friday speaking at the MNA convention on January 30 in Brooklyn Park. |
The newspaper association of our state is 159 years old! The Minnesota Newspaper Association convention is being held at the Minneapolis Marriott Northwest hotel in Brooklyn Park. The temperatures are hovering in the single digits above zero outside. It's cold outside but warm in the hotel with a great turnout of newspaper publishers, reporters, editors, photographers and other staff.
When I arrived just before 11 a.m., the morning sessions were underway. I went straight to the meeting room that held the following discussion, "I have to live in this town, too: handling the hard topics." One newspaper publisher spoke about an issue that hammered their news room, when a few people tried to hijack a school levy referendum vote. They tried to insert incorrect information into the public discourse via the newspaper, but that newspaper did not comply.
Also, U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar provided a video update on what she's working on in Washington, D.C.
The keynote speaker today is Rufus Friday from the Center for Integrity in News Reporting. He's giving a great lecture to the media present in the banquet hall on rebuilding trust in media. He shared numerous statistical figures showing that the public finds far too much political bias in news reporting. No surprise here! It is out of control in many left-leaning newspapers in America. The public sees it. They're not dumb. A journalist can share opinions all he or she wants in opinion writing, but personal bias should not factor into news reporting.
It's worth noting that Rufus Friday's dad served in World War II. The website for the Center for Integrity in News Reporting is http://www.cfinr.org.
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