We reported last week on the ousting of the Oregonian‘s freelance food critic Michael Zusman. He attributed the dismissal to his refusal to “pump up” a review (which, I should note, editor DeAnn Welker denies). The Willamette Week has gotten ahold of said review, which turns out to be of Gilda’s italian restaurant, and posted […]
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Outing News Corp Kinksters
How many more sneering, sensationalistic, and gleefully sadistic stories about BDSMers have to appear in Murdoch’s New York Post before kinksters start picketing the Post‘s offices or—better yet—before kinsters start outing people who work for News Corp who are known to be kinksters themselves?
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Why Does Anyone Listen to James Carville?
Here’s histrionic piece of shit James Carville on CNN today: People often ask me what advice I would give the White House about various things. Today I was mulling over election results from New York and Nevada while thinking about that very question. What should the White House do now? One word came to mind: […]
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Stewart Is Joking, Right? They Didn’t Do That, Did They?
CNN didn’t really use a fighter-jet-flyby graphic at the start of the Teabagger debate on Monday night, did they?
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KGW Vs. Fuck You Cocksucker: WHO YA GOT?!
Via Gawker: A crew from Portland’s KGW-TV stopped by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union’s headquarters in Longview, Washington to ask about the union’s heated dispute with a grain terminal operator. During their truth-seeking quest they met a plaid-shirted man named Fuck You Cocksucker who threatened to break their cameras and punch their faces, insulted […]
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Perky Eunuchs
Perky eunuch. Male meteorologists at local TV stations are well-groomed, presentable, and handsome-but-not-sexy guys with nice hair and twinkly eyes. They’re guys that nice girls could picture bringing home to mom but not guys that moms could picture slamming it into nice girls. I’m thinking it can’t be a coincidence that so many local TV […]
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NYT’s Take on PDX
The New York Times has a love affair with Portland. This week’s ode: 36 hours in the “West Coast urban cool” hub. Check out the photo spread, complete with the token mustachioed man: Over the past few years, the Times has written a handful of stories, mostly travel, on the splendors of PDX, drooling at […]
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Today in Passive-Aggression: The “Important Notice”
This Oregonian box is located just down the street from our office: On a scale of 1-10 (ten being most important), how “important” is this notice?
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Three Staffers Leave Willamette Week
As Byron Beck reports today on his blog, three Willamette Week staffers are moving along from the paper. There’s been some significant staff changes at our rival paper recently (Recap! News editor Hank Stern left for a PR job at the county, Oregonian reporter Brent Walth took his place, and WW news reporter Beth Slovic […]
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Today in Reporter Anger Management Fails
This is another one of those videos where a TV reporter on a live shot loses his shit for reasons unknown. You’ve seen this kind of thing before, and the real action doesn’t start until the :51 mark. But it’s worth watching because of this… Followed by this… Classic.
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OH in The Condé Nast Elevator
At over 57 thousand followers it’s hardly a secret, but today I was introduced to the Conde Elevator twitter feed, which is exactly what it sounds like: Tweets of things overheard in the Condé Nast elevators. A few examples: I could go on…
