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Has the Star Tribune given up covering Minnesota politics?

January 4th, 2008 5:17 pm by DJ Danielson

When the Star Tribune’s website launched “Politically Connected” a few months ago wasn’t that supposed to make the Strib the end-all/be-all source for politics?

Apparently not if you are interested in what’s going on in Minnesota. As I visited the area of the site today to see what they had to say about Kevin Dahle’s victory over Ray Cox last night, I noticed they have not updated since December 20th. In fact, the most recent story about the District 25 race was about the Republican primary.

Good job serving your readership, Strib.

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[UPDATE]:  It was brought to my attention that I did not have the address in the title bar causing suspicion that this was from a Google (or other) cache.  It is not; it is the “Local Politics” page currently featured at the Star Tribune.  When you goto Politically Connected and click “Local Politics” on the left-side navigation, this is what you get.

Regardless, above is a double screen-shot of the page featuring old content.  I also assumed that when I said “Apparently not if you are interested in what’s going on in Minnesota,” that would imply “local politics.”  I apologize for any confusion.

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2 Responses to “Has the Star Tribune given up covering Minnesota politics?”

  1. Bob Collins Says:
    January 4th, 2008 at 6:41 pm

    I’m guessing your browser has loaded a cached copy. I notice also there’s no URL in the address box.

    The “More from Local Politics” is an include, I believe. Automated. And it obviously has a lot of old news in it.

    Also, look at your browser’s title bar. It says “local politics.” The document would have read “Politically Connected” there.

    What you’ve actually entered is this address:

    http://www.startribune.com/politics/local/

    Which is not the address of Politically Connected. That address is:

    http://www.startribune.com/politics/

    Looks like the Strib created a dummy page and let it go to their public server, and Google crawled it because they’ll list both in their search results.

  2. Ollie Ox Says:
    January 4th, 2008 at 8:58 pm

    How dare you challenge the hegemony of our Republican overlords!

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