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In an interview with MinnPost’s Britt Robson, new (Minneapolis) Star Tribune owner Glen Taylor said the paper’s reputation as a liberal outlet will change whether he owns it or not. That said: “Will it change because of the ownership of Glen Taylor? Yeah. To say it won’t wouldn’t be accurate,” Taylor says, continuing:
But it isn’t like Glen Taylor is going to come in there on day one and say, “I’m going to fire people” and do all sorts of things. I am going to say — and I have already told them this — that first of all it has got to be fair and it has got to be accurate.
Taylor says he detects “a little bit more of a balance” among new reporters. “But I think traditionally, some of the reporters that have been hired and they have been there for a long time, I don’t know how you are ever going to change those people and what they write, but through time itself, some of those people will retire.”
He says he envisions a bifurcated system in the future: “My thought is that you are more likely to find two different reporters, one not seeing it from one side and the other not seeing it from the other side, and both of them reporting.”
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