Pointergate! How a Local TV station became a national laughingstock

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 scoop so outrageously 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 ph...