So I take back that thing I said two days ago about <a href="http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2010/01/20/well-never-know-the-cost-of-that-anti-tax-oregonian-ad”>never knowing the cost of that anti-tax Oregonian ad thanks to an change in Oregon law that makes campaign spending less transparent. After BlueOregon, Oregon Media Central, WW and I wrote posts critical of the decision to run the wrap-around ad, the […]
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“The Internet Didn’t Kill Journalism.”
Self-styled saviors of journalism John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney packed the fourth floor of Powell’s last night for a signing and lecture on their new book The Death and Life of American Journalism. I don’t really go in for most Future of Media discussions but and Nichols and McChesney started out proclaiming that they […]
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Winter Compendium of Asian Reporter Covers
Since the Asian Reporter has the most double-take inducing front pages in town and since the Asian Reporter does not keep an archive of their front pages online, I am hereby declaring myself the Internet’s official chronicler of the Asian Reporter‘s awesome bewildering headlines and idiosyncratic mix of international and hyper-local news. Here are my […]
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We’ll Never Know the Cost of that Anti-Tax Oregonian Ad
Well, kids, our government got less transparent on January 1, 2010 and I didn’t even notice until now. In Oregon, political campaigns have to disclose how they spend their money for advertisements on TV, radio and in newspapers. So in the campaign finance records for anti-66/67 group Oregonians Against Job Killing Taxes, for example, you […]
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Haiti, Anderson Cooper, And Ethics…
Perhaps you’ve not seen this yet, but you will, soon. CNN’s Anderson Cooper dragged a bloodied boy from the scene of looting in Haiti today, and has blogged about it. There’s both live footage and some pretty vivid images, including this one: ANDERSON: SAVED BOY FROM LOOTING Here at the Mercury, we’re inclined to think […]
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“It’s Not Livable If You Can’t Live There.”
The Oregonian ran an editorial by a Midwestern urban affairs writer yesterday that deserves to be trumpeted—if only because it hits on the downsides of this city as well as any article I’ve read over recent years. “Portland should be an economic juggernaut — but isn’t,” writes Aaron M.Renn. Perhaps the problem, he wonders, is […]
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Gross.
Did anyone else do a double take at Sunday’s Oregonian anti-tax wrap-around? It took me two looks to realize it was an ad… but even then, the ad is mostly just quotes from the O‘s “no” endorsement on this January’s tax measures. In other news, if you have the day off from work for MLK […]
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Me & Mario Lopez
When the opportunity arose out of nowhere to interview Mario Lopez I jumped on it. Lopez had flown into Portland to shoot scenes for his job as host of Extra, though why either of us would want to talk to the another was left unclear. He is constantly working, but didn’t seem to be pushing […]
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Report Shows Car and Bus Trips Declined More Steeply than Bike Trips in 2009
The Portland Bureau of Transportation just released its bicycle count for 2009, the important report that annually details the habits of Portland cyclists. The report saw some controversy even before it was released. After getting a draft copy of the report last month, Willamette Week’s Beth Slovic ran a news lead headlined “Backpedaling”, which highlighted […]
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Oregonian Editorial Board: Hypocrisy On Tax Measure Endorsement Knows No Bounds
Woah. File under “I did NOT see THIS coming.” The Oregonian editorial board penned a lengthy endorsement yesterday advising its readers to vote against the legislature’s modest tax hikes on corporations and those earning more than $250,000 a year. The strongly-worded piece, which reads more like a press release put out by the Portland Business […]
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Oregonian Now Stickel-less
Panic, you guys! The Oregonian is now Stickel-less! From The O: Via The Oregonian In a style that didn’t much surprise his colleagues or friends, Patrick Stickel, president of The Oregonian, quietly retired Wednesday from the newspaper where he had spent most of his life since moving to Portland in 1967. “As president, Pat Stickel […]
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Right-Wingers Are Obsessed With Rape Metaphors
TV pundits making their money off hyperbole, racing to espouse the language so crazy, so angry that viewers sit up and take notice of their name. I appreciate <a href="http://mediamatters.org/”>Media Matters putting together this little montage of middle aged, white, male pundits comparing various things like tax policy to the violent crime that is forced […]