Strib takes financial hit on Franken/Coleman ad flap
You saw Tom's story on Coleman's ad yesterday. Now this from the AP:
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Star Tribune of Minneapolis will be refunding about $12,000 spent on a full-page ad to Al Franken's Senate campaign, a Franken campaign spokesman says.
This week, Senator Norm Coleman's campaign took out a full-page ad in the newspaper criticizing Franken for not condemning a New York Times ad by MoveOn.org, which had attacked General David Petraeus.
Coleman's campaign says it paid a little over $23,000 on the ad - far less than the $37,000 that Franken's campaign says it paid for a full-page ad two months ago.
Franken campaign spokesman Andy Barr says that after contacting the Star Tribune, the paper agreed to refund a little over $12,000.
That's slightly less than difference between what the two campaigns paid - which Barr said was probably because of the different days of the week the ads ran.
The Star Tribune has not returned several calls on the issue this week.
Ouch! No wonder the newspaper business is hurting.
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