The one-time WBT afternoon host who moved back to the Twin Cities a few years must be going nuts. I know I’m going nuts over this story and I’m a long plane ride away from ground zero.
News that almost $300K in taxpayer money is going to The Duluth News Tribune and the St. Paul Pioneer Press for “Internet training” is disgusting. That some UMinn flunkie is defending the idea should not surprise, but it still does.
What is wrong with these people? Why do they think they can take other people’s money and give it manifest morons and have no moral responsibility for the situation? Let’s make that clear: The newspapers are telling the world that they hired and evidently still employ complete idiots who cannot figure out the most basic consumer technology without hand-holding and “training.”
This is why the current generation of newspapers and newspapermen and women are doomed — most of them are just not very smart.
