Minnesota Public Radio is also not reporting on the governor's criticism of the media, choosing to post the AP article, which is putting the spin on the governor's press conference that absolutely mischaracterizes the tone and the bulk of his remarks. The way it is being spun now is to censor any quotes that were specifically about the media, and choosing instead to use a single quote from Ventura, where he claimed that the Democrats, Republicans and the media are "conspiring to limit the hard-earned rights of ordinary citizens" rather than include his scathing remarks on media censorship. They are also now spinning to make Ventura look bad, and to spin attention back on the Wellstone memorial. Ventura did mention his disgust with the memorial, and went as far as to say he would never attend another funeral of a politician unless it was in a church (Ventura is infamous in his anti-church attendance and organized religion opinions, so again, this is another inconsistency with him).

You know, if they were just refusing to air the governor's normal diatribes against the media as being non-newsworthy, I could agree. But the circumstances surrounding his decision to appoint a former third party candidate for US senate from his own party, should be pretty damn newsworthy in this race which has now nearly dropped off the radar completely of the media whore networks as a story. It has been dropped like a hot potato.

One argument made by Minnesota Public Radio's attorney in court this morning was done to counter the argument made by the Independence Party's argument that MPR receives federal funding as a non-profit. The Ramsey County judge who heard the request for an injunction agreed on this point, using it as a justification to deny the request.

Minnesota Public Radio receives a scandalous amount of money from both the state and federal government, and is the largest privately owned "public radio" network in the US, which is rivaled in size and power only by National Public Radio and PBS.

Minnesota Public Radio management was one of the decision makers who locked out the third party candidates from the debate.

Man, I hope some Minnesotans start crying foul loud enough to be heard by tonight's newscasts.