I just opened my mail to find a book called Chubster: A Hipster’s Guide to Losing Weight While Staying Cool. It is a weight loss guide for hipsters. The author, Martin Cizmar, is “now the arts and culture editor at Willamette Week in Portland, Oregon.” From the press release: “‘There’s no cool way to lose […]
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A Fact-Checking PSA from Olive
Fighting the good fact-checking fight. Hi Blogtown! This is Olive here to remind you that it’s always a good idea to fact check your stories. SNURFLE… oh pardon me, PFFT SNERFFLLLE. The name of my new bar is actually called the Old Gold, not the Old Gold Box as the Oregonian would have you believe […]
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How’s that Paywall Workin’ Out for Ya?
In the midst of a deteriorating advertising climate, The New York Times plans to eliminate up to 20 newsroom positions and seek additional savings in the business units, the company said Thursday. […] Over the summer The Times Company had anticipated a roughly four percent decrease in advertising revenue in the third quarter, in line […]
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What He Said Times a Million
James Fallows calls out the Times and others for their buying into the idea that a bill has “failed” after getting a majority of Senate votes with headlines like, “Obama’s Jobs BIll Fails in Senate in First Legislative Test” (Times) and “Obama Loses Big on Jobs Bill” (Daily Beast). We have gone so far in […]
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Occupy Portland: What to Say to Reporters
Occupy Portland starts today at noon, and rest assured Columbia Sportswear jacket-wearing reporters from all the local news stations are gonna be up in your grill (along with a few of us Mercury reporters, I bet) asking you one simple question: WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE? The way you answer this question is […]
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Damn You, Asian Reporter!
Your covers are always the best! Always! We try and do something cute with a cat or whatever once in a while, but you always win! Look at this: Shy, defenseless anteaters AND a terrorist comic book? I give up.
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Nietzsche Was a #1 Troll (and Other Lessons from Portland’s ROFLCon Summit)
First of all, contrary to the predictions of our comments section, the internet culture convention meeting today in Portland’s Wieden + Kennedy building is NOT attended solely by “basement dwellers.” The sold-out ROFLCON Summit is instead a series of panels and Q&As populated by a surprisingly attractive (hey-o!) crowd of design nerds, computer geeks, media […]
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The Latest Secret Weapon in America’s “Battle of the Bulge”? Why, it’s John Canzano!
John Canzano is not taking credit for helping this man lose weight. No doubt thanks to the subtle power of his smooth radio voice and even smoother newspaper prose—plus a refusal to worry too hard about hurting someone’s feelings or, maybe, violating their privacy—Oregonian sports columnist John Canzano has officially emerged as our nation’s best […]
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More Like The Fail-y
Remember how Rupert Murdoch’s iPad newspaper The Daily was going to change journalism? Bloomberg says not so much: News Corp. (NWSA)’s the Daily is averaging about 120,000 readers a week, or less than a quarter the number the company said it needs to make money, according to an advertising executive working with the iPad-only publication. […]
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Report: Newspaper Not Dead Yet, Journalists Lie
The Pew Research Center produced a lengthy “How People Learn About Their Local Community” report today. It’s kind of a vague topic, but digging deeper into the results produced some interesting facts. Instead of the perceived dependence on online media, the report illustrated Americans’ interest in relatively diverse news platforms. In the survey of more […]
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Dammit, GOP! Stop with the Conga Lines Already!!
Here’s another good reason why we cannot allow the GOP (AKA the “Tea Party Ass Kissers”) to take control of the presidency. They make live shot reporters REALLY MAD—like this guy who was covering Ronald Reagan’s victory party.
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TriMet No Longer #1
In Februrary, a US News & World Report article named Portland the nation’s “best city for public transportation”, sending TriMet to the printing press to dish out $8,000 on 168 bus and train advertisements boasting this label. While TriMet staff skewed the wording a bit, calling themselves the “#1 Transit”, the bright ad was generally […]