Commentary and dissent really have merged to form Dissentary Vice.com announced yesterday that it will join the growing number of websites (NPR.com, Reuters, Popular Science) that are disabling their comments sections altogether. I don’t have much to add to what I said in August when NPR saw the light, which basically amounts to this: …the […]
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The Original Portland Challenger
The Life of William A. Hilliard, Portland’s Pioneering Black Newspaperman
In 1938, an 11-year-old boy was turned down for a paper route job for being black. What he went on to do in the newspaper industry was remarkable.
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How Local TV News Tries to Discredit Protests
This is embarrassing, @KGWNews. Trying to discredit protest by digging up voting histories. You get a voice no matter what. This is America. https://t.co/TfqCXacC02— Ian Karmel (@IanKarmel) November 15, 2016 More than half of those arrested during anti-Trump protests in Portland voted. 35 didn’t turn in a ballot. 34 weren’t registered to voter. pic.twitter.com/lA2u6hqFir— Kyle […]
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“Daria, Mitch, & Ted” Radio Show Shake-Up: Daria Moves to 94.7
TOGETHER AGAIN: Daria lands at 94.7 with Gustav Courtesy 94.7 As I noted last week, there have been big shake ups over at 105.1 the Buzz as the station broke up the 10 year old afternoon dream team of Daria, Mitch & Ted. The first to go was Ted Douglass, followed by Daria and Mitch. […]
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Ted Douglass, of the “Daria, Mitch & Ted Show” at the Buzz, Has Been Laid Off
Mitch, Daria, and Ted (Ted’s on the left) Courtesy MD&T Facebook fan page UPDATE: A change.org petition has been started, demanding that the management of Entercom (which owns 105.1 The Buzz) bring back Ted Douglass to the “Daria, Mitch & Ted Show.” As of this writing, it already has over 500 signatures. Original Post:The radio […]
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The New York Times’ Legal Team to Trump: Come at Us. We’d Love It.
These pins were sold openly at the RNC. Y’all really didn’t know Trump was running on the Rape Culture™ platform? The Stranger Donald Trump’s attorneys have asked the New York Times to retract reports from women who claim they’ve been sexually assaulted by the Republican nominee for president. The New York Times‘ lawyers replied today […]
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Happy 10th Birthday to Portland’s Media Institute for Social Change!
Courtesy Media Institute for Social Change It was roughly 10 years ago this month when former Mercury reporter (and forever friend of the paper) Phil Busse launched the Media Institute for Social Change—a non-profit designed to support independent media, as well as burgeoning media producers and projects designed to forward social change. They do a […]
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UPDATED: Protest Today at KGW Following Insensitive Interview About Sexual Assault Survivors
From the now deleted KGW interview with Joel Magid Doug Brown UPDATE 1 pm: Another protest against KGW has been scheduled for “2 pm-whenever” outside of the KGW studios on SW 15th and Jefferson. More info on that here. In case you missed it, local news station KGW conducted an insensitive (and journalistically questionable) interview […]
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Is the Media Fair in Covering this Presidential Race, Wonders Media
Hillary Clinton speaking at a 2013 event held by the Clinton Foundation, which Paul Krugman says has gotten more scrutiny than the Trump Foundation. JStone / Shutterstock.com “I am very scared,” writes Paul Krugman, winner of a Nobel prize in economics, in a brief, salient blog post this morning. He believes media companies are “objectively […]
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Ivanka Trump’s Interns Share Tips on How To Survive Working For Free For Ivanka Trump
How to make it work as an unpaid intern: https://t.co/pwMIYWh4kw #nomoneynoproblems #interntips #internships pic.twitter.com/BRoWuO6bq7— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) August 18, 2016 Interns of the world, have you ever found yourself working for free for a lifestyle website that is part of the brand strategy for a collection of affordable career wear that did a reported $100 […]
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The Atlantic Digs Deeper into Portland Gentrification
From The Atlantic Last month when The Atlantic‘s Alana Semuels wrote her piece The Racist History of Portland, the Whitest City in America, it caught the attention of a lot of people around town—especially those who aren’t exactly comfortable with the subjects of gentrification and racism. (While we may pride ourselves on our progressive attitudes, […]
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Why Seven Is the Perfect Number for a Social Media Trending Topic
The popular “#first7jobs” trending hashtag/meme popped up around Twitter a couple weeks ago, with an expanded Facebook counterpart following suit. I didn’t post mine because it seemed a little too bizarre to be believed (it included “pool boy” and “hedge fund” in close proximity, which sounded fishy); I also couldn’t remember exactly in what order […]