They Would Know, Wouldn’t They?

The DNT ran an article today about jobless rates in the Northland.  I don’t know about the dead-tree version, but online they ran a photo of an empty cubicle with the story. The photo appears to be an empty cubicle at the paper itself.  I’m sure there are a lot of those around these days.

16 Comments

Calk

about 16 years ago

I'd like to think that's the DNT photographer's small act of rebellion against their corporate honchos in Fargo -- or just "The Man."

please_please

about 16 years ago

Let's hope that they *do* go to the 'All Grandma's Bragbook' format.

fscotty

about 16 years ago

I noticed that, too! And I think Calk is right - I figured it was some small subversive act.

rediguana

about 16 years ago

So ironic. So true.

farglebargle

about 16 years ago

Interesting theory, but it looks more like a basic piece of clip art from iStockphoto or some such place. Too clean, for one thing. No dust.

udarnik

about 16 years ago

It's the DNT, all right.

farglebargle

about 16 years ago

Not that I got all day to argue about it, but first you say it "appears to be" the DNT, then you say it definitely is, what made you change your mind in between?

dlhmn

about 16 years ago

udarnik is right. It IS the DNT in that photo. There is no question.

udarnik

about 16 years ago

I hedged in the OP because, as a former employee of the DNT, I was pretty darn sure it was at the DNT but didn't want to make PDD look stupid (or myself, for that matter, in my first OP) by issuing a blanket mock and then be proven wrong.  In the meantime, other former DNTers have confirmed to me that the photo was indeed taken at the DNT.

farglebargle

about 16 years ago

Start a rumor you're pretty darn sure is true and hope it turns out to be. Glad it worked out, but do they teach that in journalism school?

Paul Lundgren

about 16 years ago

I don't think that was "start(ing) a rumor." It was more of a commentary on an irony that would have existed even if the photo wasn't of a DNT cubical.

Tim K

about 16 years ago

Less fargle, more bargle

farglebargle

about 16 years ago

Okay, sorry to be the grouch in the trashcan. But this is an era when people are getting more of their news from blogs (I found this thread through Aaron Brown's blog), so we need to be more careful about what we post.

Chris

about 16 years ago

If people are making the decision to get their news from blogs, that falls on the person not the blog.

Cory

about 16 years ago

Looks like they pulled the image off the online version of the article.

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/118169/

udarnik

about 16 years ago

They're still hosting it, though, if you click on the link in the OP.

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