In a few weeks you will see the press in MN (and outside too) looking at the I-35W bridge collapse and its affects on people.
There's nothing wrong with the motive.
But there can be plenty wrong with the reporting ... if it isn't grounded.
So do the reporting team at Minnesota Public Radio News a favor, give us a solid foundation for reporting on this bridge collapse and the reconstruction afterward.
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I went under the bridge about 45 minutes before it crashed.
I wonder how much the local media will discuss that Elwyn Tinklenberg, the MNDot head during the Ventura Administration, was the first to know of possible faulty gusset plates, during his tenure? Does that fit into the media's agenda? Especially seeing who is running against this fall?
I still send updates on the bridge progess to friends around the country. They still ask about it. I was at the U last week and stopped on the 10th ave. bridge just to see how things were going. I still remember driving by when they were still picking up pieces of the old bridge. It still hurts to think about it even though I don't know any of the victims.
I was going to head to Rosedale that day and would have crossed that bridge on the way there and back. I decided it was too hot and didn't go. I was "that" close to being on that bridge. Amazing.