Illustration by Corey Thompson Hey slackers: Set your alarms early Monday morning and put on a pot of coffee. This’ll be worth it. Mayor Sam Adams will playing host for two hours (8 to 10 am) over on right-wing spew station 860 AM, aka KPAM. The station’s regular morning host, Bob Miller, will be off, […]
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All of Satan’s E-mails Begin with “Hi There”
We’ve been hearing for a while how AOL mistreats its bloggers as a matter of course. Maybe we’ve become desensitized after hearing so many stories about shitty goings-on at Engadget and the Huffington Post. But you should read this personal account posted at The Awl, because it’s a smart, sad look at exactly how poorly […]
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WWeek Editor Hank Stern to Take Public Affairs Job at County
The Twitters Sigh. Another journalist leaves the industry and takes a PR job. This time it’s long-time Willamette Week managing news editor Hank Stern who’s leaving to take a public affairs job with Multnomah County. He’ll be one of the county’s spokesmen starting April 20th. Stern has been the backbone of WWeek’s news department since […]
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Oregonian Shrinkage Kicks in Today
If the Oregonian looks smaller to you today, you’re not going crazy. Starting this morning, the state’s main daily will be two inches skinnier. The O will henceforth be 46 inches wide, not 48. Papers across the country have slimmed down to save on costs. In an internal memo, Editor Peter Bhatia told staff that […]
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How Will Future Obamas Ever Produce Their Birth Certificates if They’re Not Allowed to Be Born?
STOP PRE-ASSASSINATING PRESIDENTS. Thank you for the ridiculous provocation, Life Always.
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Newspaper Responds to Radiohead with Banjo Cover of “Creep”
In response to Radiohead’s little sashay into the journalism industry The Guardian newspaper has retaliated with a little sashaying of their own: …Here is what we were thinking: if Radiohead were really going to publish a newspaper alongside the release of their latest CD), shouldn’t the Guardian mount a response? If a band could wade […]
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How to Hack the New York Times Paywall
The New York Times paywall went into effect today, restricting readers to 20 articles per month. Well, that’s grossly simplified, since the terms of their digital subscriptions are labyrinthine. But there are already reports on how to hack, uh, circumvent the paywall. It’s surprisingly easy, according to an article posted on Mashable.com: Readers need only […]
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Last Train for Troubletown
Cartoonist Lloyd Dangle (creator of Troubletown which has been running in the Mercury since… JESUS!… issue #1) sent us a message the other day (also posted here), and I thought I’d share it with you. That’s right folks, after twenty-two years I’ve decided to retire my comic strip. It’s been an agonizing decision but I’ve […]
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“This Is Just a Good Political Ad That Is Neither Racist Nor Insane”
So proclaims Videogum, and rightly so. The source: Citizens Against Government Waste, America’s #1 Taxpayer Watchdog. Thanks to everyone.
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Times Paywall: What He Said
I’ve been kicking a post around in my head about the New York Times‘ coming paywall for a couple days, but John Gruber went ahead and wrote it for me, which allows me to eat cookies instead. One thing many companies — in any industry — can learn from Apple is the importance of simple […]
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The New York Times Is Building a Paywall
Read all about it in the New York Times while you still can, you moocher: The New York Times rolled out a plan on Thursday to begin charging the most frequent users of its Web site $15 a month in a bet that readers will pay for news they have grown accustomed to getting free. […]
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KUFO is Out! Lars Larson and Glenn Beck are In!
Just when you thought Portland radio couldn’t get any crappier, everyone’s favorite inflammatory local AM talk radio host is coming to prime-time, baby, all the way to FM! Regular listeners of KUFO radio (uh… Korn fans?) got a shock this morning as 101.1 FM suddenly changed over to the conservative talk radio station formerly known […]