A complaint against the Star Tribune by the former mayor of Roseville, John Kysylyczyn, was denied today by the Minnesota News Council. The vote was 11-to-0 with one abstention. Kysylyczyn, mayor of Roseville from 2000 to 2003, said that the Star Tribune unfairly editorialized in a July 23, 2006 news story when it used the word “antics” to characterize his administration.
Two complaints by the Minneapolis City Council about a KSTP-TV news story that said the city wrongfully demolished a house in the East Phillips neighborhood were upheld by lopsided votes at a Minnesota News Council public hearing.
A complaint from three Maplewood city council members that a KSTP-TV news story in July inaccurately reported that the council had stalled progress on an area redevelopment plan was narrowly upheld today by the Minnesota News Council. The vote was 6 to 4.
The Minnesota News Council voted 11-1 to uphold a complaint against WCCO-TV by a St. Paul family who said the station misrepresented them as unable to afford to attend the Minnesota State Fair except on a Bargain Day.
A complaint against the Roseau Times-Region newspaper by a city official was denied by the Minnesota News Council. The vote was 8 to 4 with one abstention.
The News Council denied three complaints by Prior Lake’s former mayor and two city council colleagues against the Prior Lake American newspaper.
Complaints against FOX 9 News by the Lions Club of Shell Lake (WI) and by a trust fund set up to help a savagely beaten girl were upheld.
Law & Politics, a monthly magazine aimed at two niche audiences, published a story in its June/July 2003 issue surveying a variety of bizarre political disputes in three Twin Cities suburbs. The story, “The Day the Strippers Tried to Take Over City Hall,” was a feature intended to amuse readers.
The News Council voted 15-5 that the Wright County Journal-Press, a weekly newspaper in Buffalo, Minn., was unfair in is coverage of a rape case, even though its stories contained no inaccuracies.