This has been a theme, over the past week or so, hasn’t it? Mayor Sam Adams and a few city officials spent some time in city council this morning pushing back, once more, against Oregonian coverage. This time, it was over a story that said the Portland Development Commission, in its latest budget proposal, is […]
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Headline of the Day!
From NYC’s Metro newspaper: I’m leaving the rest of the headline out… so make your best guess in the comments below as to why hipsters might cost anyone $2 billion!
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Obama/Osama: Et Tu, NPR?
“Heard this on NPR’s Morning Edition this morning, in what appears to be a PRE-RECORDED news segment. I guess public radio cutbacks began with editors.”
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Gingrich and Santorum Are Now Unemployed
Politico says: Fox News has terminated its contracts with former Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Senator Rick Santorum after the deadline for them to decide on presidential bids passed on May 1, a source familiar with the move told POLITICO. Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee are still employed by Fox News. It’s getting kind of […]
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Don’t Kill Yourself, Obama! Wait… WHAT.
Before watching this newscast, I had no idea that Obama killing himself was his number one priority upon entering office. And then there was the whole confusing episode of where Obama was hiding—was he in Pakistan or the White House? Unfortunately, Obama eventually got his wish, thanks to some help from the Navy SEALS… so […]
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IPRC’s Media Action Project
Check out the above video and get motivated to support the IPRC’s Media Action Project. The program promotes media literacy in teens. The IPRC hosts: …four-session outreach program that teaches youth how to critically deconstruct print ads, movies, television commercials, video games and websites in order to examine underlying messages about gender, violence, body image, […]
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More Reporter Reshuffles
We’ve been reporting all kinds of news about local media people quitting and joining different papers recently so, hey, here’s some more scuttlebutt. The Oregonian hired two well-known local reporters today, Nick Budnick and Beth Slovic. Nick Budnick used to work at Willamette Week and did some great cops reporting for the Tribune, but quit […]
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Our Oregon Says O‘s Fact Checker Got Facts Wrong
Maybe you’ve seen a certain political ad put out recently by progressive group Our Oregon. Coming off the fight over how much money (not) to spend on Oregon’s education system—and whether to open the spigot on the state’s reserve funds to give the kids a little more—the group put out a piece that targets Dennis […]
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Gawker Keeps Losing Readers
In a story titled “Gawker’s Traffic Numbers Are Worse Than Anyone Anticipated,” The Atlantic looks into the Gawker redesign and discovers, well… Now that the complaints have, for the most part, slowed to a trickle and the tech blogs have stopped looking into Gawker’s traffic numbers, we decided to dig in a bit. What does […]
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Meet the Pooping Postman of Portland
Everything you need to know is in the subject line. Thank you, The Awl, via The Obscure Store and Reading Room.
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Rumormill: Brent Walth Leaving Oregonian to Take Editor Job at WWeek
Just to round out the media news I posted last week about WWeek Managing Editor Hank Stern taking a spokesman job at the county, an internal memo the Oregonian sent out today says that long-time O investigative reporter Brent Walth will be leaving the daily to take Stern’s old job. A copy of the memo […]