Meeting/Press Conference
The Star Tribune reported on the Minneapolis City Council’s Feb. 29 meeting. As evident by the meeting agenda, many things were discussed and decided. The Star Tribune reporter, however, chose to write about just one of those things—the authorization to take bids on a possible “green roof� for the Target Center.
The meeting agenda and the newspaper story hardly resemble one another. The meeting agenda only says this of the green roof topic:
“Target Center Green Roof: Authorize commence cost bidding process for three green roof options. Direct staff to report back to Committee with results of bidding process no later than October 16, 2008.�
The reporter, on the other hand, wrote ten to eleven paragraphs about the decision. He was clearly present at the meeting and listened to the deliberations. He also did a lot of background work. In fact, most of the article was putting the decision into a context. He said what the Council decided and then explained what that actually meant for the city.