As of earlier today, I’m signed up (so far I’m the only guest listed) for Thursday morning’s “Think Out Loud” show, the first topic of which is “Pendleton High Fashion.” If the conversation I had on the phone earlier is any indication expect the conversation to cover things like why heritage brands like Pendleton have […]
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Curbside Composting Plan: YOU Write the Oregonian/WW Lead Paragraph!
Hot tipper Graham alerts us to Mayor Sam Adams’ new proposed curbside composting plan. Portland Mayor Sam Adams today proposed the addition of curbside food scrap composting for Portlanders today following a successful, year-long pilot program. The proposal will go to Portland City Council for a first reading next week and vote Wednesday, August 17. […]
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New School Journalism Meets Old School
Publishing a paper without a computer, digital camera, or social networking device? Oh, the terror! Last week, a Florida Atlantic University journalism class did just that. And survived. The program, All on Paper, sent students back to the the technologies of ancient history (the 1970s), forcing them to use typewriters, manual cameras and long division. […]
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Vancouver Voice Is Going Out of Business
Our alt weekly neighbors across the Columbia are about the print their last issue: The Vancouver Voice is heading into the sunset August 18th, unless someone ponies up to buy the paper. “It’s been up and down, but we ended up having to put it up for sale because of the overall state of the […]
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Top that Labored Metaphor!
In this week’s WW, newsy dude Corey Pein offers his theory on why Mayor Sam Adams decided not to run for re-election. (Don’t worry—it’s nothing you weren’t already aware of.) BUT! Because every WW story about Adams must contain at least one seething back-handed insult (they’re still sore about Adams not resigning when they told […]
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Dan Savage and Marcus Bachmann Meet in Taiwanese CGI Land!
!!!!! Thank you, Next Media Animation.
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Behind the Reporting on David Wu and Other Sex Scandals
ProPublica Editor Stephen Engleberg has a really interesting story up about the reporting choices involved in reporting on politician’s sex lives, including David Wu. Engleberg is a former editor at the Oregonian and has some insight on why the paper chose to cover—and not cover—scandals in the past. Check it out. If you can’t handle […]
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Text Messages from the Massacre
BBC News has an amazing series of texts sent between a teenager on the island of Utoeya and her mother during the killing spree that left 68 dead. (The texter is not among the fatalities.) Read them all here.
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Fox News Fails to Use the C-Word to Describe the Norway Shooter
Crooks & Liars posted this video showing Fox News hosts dancing around their description of Anders Behring Breivik to absolve their precious conservatism of any blame: Xenophobia, white supremacism, and a love of Pamela Geller. Sounds pretty conservative to me.
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The Hackers Strike Back
As things get darker and weirder, the hackers are around to make sure that people don’t forget about the Murdoch phone-hacking scandal. LulzSec has hacked the hell out of one of Rupert Murdoch’s papers, posting a phony story about Murdoch being found dead in his garden. (You can read the full story at Gizmodo.) They […]
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“Fox & Friends’ Jaw-Dropping Whitewash of News of the World Scandal”
From newshounds.us, and just amazing.
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Facts Are Stubborn Things
A surreal review of the “facts” in the News International scandal: Of course, as mentioned below in GMN, Rebekah Brooks, the News International chief defended in this video, was just arrested.