Daily Digest: 12-28-06

Posted at 6:39 AM on December 28, 2006 by Mike Mulcahy
Filed under: Daily Digest

There was a lot said in the coverage of Gerald Ford's death yesterday about how Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney got their start in his administration. Now Bob Woodward reveals that Ford disagreed with his former proteges and President Bush about the war in Iraq. Too bad Woodward had to agree to hold off on publishing the interview until Ford died.

In other news both the Star Tribune and MPR follow up on the pending sale of the Strib.

And the Star Tribune has a story about Paul Reuben, a contractor from Minnesota who was abducted in Iraq. His kidnappers made a videotape of him and other hostages. According to the story:

The clip was shown to McClatchy News Service in Baghdad on Tuesday night on condition that the provider's name and other identifying details be withheld.

Which raises the question--once the Strib is sold, will it have rights to the McClatchy News Services reporting? I don't see why it would. And doesn't that mean the two biggest papers in the state won't have their own foreign or Washington bureaus? Oh well, maybe craigslist will start doing news.

Campaign 2008

John Edwards is announcing today in New Orleans. But apparently he was having Web problems yesterday and tipped off everyone about what everyone already knew. Darn those IT guys!

Other items

The Pioneer Press leads with another problem we didn't know we had--the grocery gap.

MPR continues its previews of legislative issues. Today the focus is on transportation.

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