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Pointergate! Local TV scoop becomes national laughingstock

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When a local TV news segment gets widely shared on social media, it usually means one of two things: either a journalist swore on air or a cute kid interrupted a live broadcast


But in the case of Minneapolis station KSTP, it seems, there's a third way to get noticed: produce a segment so ridiculously thin on reporting you can hear the howls of laughter from thousands of miles away.


Here's the substance of KSTP reporter Jay Kolls' Thursday night scoop: the mayor of Minneapolis, Betsy Hodges, was photographed with a young black man on a get-out-the-vote drive, Navell Gordon. The two are pointing at each other. That's it Read more...


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