Minneapolis Star-Tribune publishes Downing Street Memo

[Carolab]

Big type on the top of the Commentary page (A19):

Secret memo not secret anymore

And indicates that due to reader requests they are printing the memo, and do so in their entirety. Featured with large pic of * and Blair face-to-face!

[Wickerman]

1. on line link

may need to free register.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/562/5436890.html

[fooj]

2. Well, I'll be damned!

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[peacetalksforall]

3. Minutes? Not memo. Minutes comes across as more officia/real than

a memo.

[Dora]

4. Perhaps DUing the other McClatchy papers is in order

The Star-Tribune is owned by McClatchy.

DUers in the communities served by their other newspapers could request that they do the same as the Star Tribune.

-snip-
McClatchy’s largest newspaper is the Star Tribune in Minneapolis-St. Paul, which it acquired in 1998.

The oldest paper, The Sacramento Bee, was founded in 1857 during the Gold Rush and is the company’s second largest.

The News & Observer in Raleigh, NC, was bought by McClatchy in 1995 and ranks third in circulation. McClatchy Interactive, known as Nando Media prior to 2005, was created by The N&O and McClatchy acquired it when it bought the newspaper.

Two California papers, The Fresno Bee and The Modesto Bee, were part of McClatchy’s original holdings and are now the fourth- and sixth-largest newspapers in the group. The News Tribune in Tacoma, WA, purchased in 1986, ranks fifth in circulation.

In 1979, in its first moves outside its home state, McClatchy bought both the Anchorage Daily News in Alaska and the Tri-City Herald in Kennewick, WA.

McClatchy’s presence in the South began in 1990 when it acquired three dailies in South Carolina: The Herald in Rock Hill, The Island Packet in Hilton Head, and The Beaufort Gazette.

In January 2004, McClatchy bought the Merced Sun-Star and five affiliated non-dailies in California's Central Valley. Those newspapers are the Atwater Signal, the Chowchilla News, the Livingston Chronicle, the Los Baños Enterprise and the Sierra Star, which is in Oakhurst, CA.

http://www.mcclatchy.com/about/

[Moderator]

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. It takes up half of an entire page in the op-ed section.

I left my copy on a table in the cafeteria at work today, hoping some people will read it who might otherwise miss the whole story. The Strib is kicking ass these days. I'm pleased that my community has a newspaper that possesses an editorial staff with cojones.

[Carolab]

8. That's weird--I did the same thing! Left it out on a table at lunch.

Folded in half with the memo right on top, and people were reading it one after the other!!!

[Nothing Without Hope]

11. That's great - it's a form of "The Paper Chase" strategy. People WANT

the truth. They know there is something wrong and that the corporate media is complicit in some way - I hope a LOT of them are reading about the DSMinutes and are grasping what it means. The counterspin is coming, and we have to see that the truth continues to be heard.

[Carolab]

12. I stood there a bit and watched one from the corner of the room.

He had a rather confused and almost anxious look on his face.

[Nothing Without Hope]

13. GOOD. That means he was paying attention. And you know what they

say, it's the converts who make the most convincing spreaders of a new belief. Let's hope that holds up here too, because it really has to be spread far and wide. We can plant the seeds and do what we can to help them grow, but ultimately people are just going to have to open their eyes at long last.

[Career Prole]

6. It's clearly a big lie!

"No decisions had been taken, but he thought the most likely timing in U.S. minds for military action to begin was January, with the timeline beginning 30 days before the U.S. congressional elections."

IRAQ WAR RESOLUTION

107th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. J. RES. 114
October 10, 2002

JOINT RESOLUTION
To authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against Iraq.

U.S. Congressional elections November 5th, 2002

Anyone can plainly see the timeline started 26 days before, not 30 as stated in that fraudulent memo!!
Get a brain!!!
Morans!!

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[damntexdem]

7. It only took how many weeks?

But at least it'll be published in Minnesota.

[MnFats]

9. Hot damn! For this I can almost forgive them for hiring the gawdawful

Katherine Kersten as an op-ed columnist.
She's a right-wing nut from the Center of the American Experiment.
Remember the name. She'll give Ann Coulter a run for her money.

[Nothing Without Hope]

10. "Due to reader requests." The LTTE's DO have an impact! This is

heartening news.

[cmutt]

14. sad, isn't it?

..that your local newspaper publishes the NEWS in the op-ed section -- and only because of a volume of reader-requests. And this is from a supposed-liberal paper. If our press wasn't so neutered, that thing would've run on the front-page of every paper -- coast-to-coast. It's sad commentary about the state-of-the media today, isn't it?