It's official. The Pulse, after ten years of discrediting the left with is peculiar brand of over heated opinion and biased speculation, is kaput.
Oh of course, it's not an end it's a new beginning as the crusty old rag attempts to become another predictable lefty website, or as Ed Felien, the publisher says, "Hello, Good-bye, Hello Again!" Blah, blah, blah, blah.
To be fair, the Pulse had its moments and occasional breakthrough articles, but those only indicated the Pulse's potential and the need for a quality alternative in the Twin Cities.
Felien's bizarre post-Maoist petty bourgeois/peasant perspective always skewed both his analysis and the entire direction of the paper. And too often, the Pulse read like a sloppy small town newspaper wherein local lefties dropped each other names and congratulated each other for being good people.
In the end, Felien claimed that "We believed every story is written from a point of view, and anyone who said they were objective and "fair and balanced" was simply supporting the status quo." Unfortunately, that meant that the Pulse did just as it pleased, factual reporting (and paying journalists) only important when it served momentary personal, political or pecuniary purposes.
This is not to discount the critical need for a leftist perspective in the local press but simply to say that our causes were not helped by having a poor quality weekly claim our voices when in fact it was just narrowcasting to a handful of self-congratulatory part-time "activists" stuck in a time warp.
A revolution is not made thus.
--Loosestrife
Oh of course, it's not an end it's a new beginning as the crusty old rag attempts to become another predictable lefty website, or as Ed Felien, the publisher says, "Hello, Good-bye, Hello Again!" Blah, blah, blah, blah.
To be fair, the Pulse had its moments and occasional breakthrough articles, but those only indicated the Pulse's potential and the need for a quality alternative in the Twin Cities.
Felien's bizarre post-Maoist petty bourgeois/peasant perspective always skewed both his analysis and the entire direction of the paper. And too often, the Pulse read like a sloppy small town newspaper wherein local lefties dropped each other names and congratulated each other for being good people.
In the end, Felien claimed that "We believed every story is written from a point of view, and anyone who said they were objective and "fair and balanced" was simply supporting the status quo." Unfortunately, that meant that the Pulse did just as it pleased, factual reporting (and paying journalists) only important when it served momentary personal, political or pecuniary purposes.
This is not to discount the critical need for a leftist perspective in the local press but simply to say that our causes were not helped by having a poor quality weekly claim our voices when in fact it was just narrowcasting to a handful of self-congratulatory part-time "activists" stuck in a time warp.
A revolution is not made thus.
--Loosestrife
