Media in the Lifestyle

In a typical week, I read the Start Tribune most days. According to the Washington Post, it was a local, family-owned newspaper until 1998 when it was sold to McClatchy Co. Then a year ago, McClatchy sold the paper to Avista Capital Partners, "a firm specializing in private equity investments primarily in growth oriented energy, healthcare, and media companies." My parents have been reading the Star Tribune for a long time. My dad jokes that a conservative friend of his used to refer to it years ago as the "Red Star" paper because of its liberal bent. Now his comment is that the paper has been getting smaller and smaller these days with less content.

Another media source that I rely on is Minnesota Public Radio (MPR). I listen to their news, classical music, and "Current" music stations on the radio throughout the day and subscribe to a few of their podcasts. As far as I know, MPR is a private, non-profit orgnization that gets funding from foundations, businesses, and "listeners like me." I find MPR's news coverage to be thorough and unbiased, and from their music stations I get music that I can't get anywhere else on my radio dial.

Since I rely so heavily on those two sources of news, I recently decided to branch out and subscribe to the New York Times daily headlines and news alerts by email to get a broader perspective in addition to the Minnesota perspective.