In the age of Facey-Tweet, I’m considering starting all my words with the letters ‘Tw’ from now on. Like, I’m twangry, twugged-in, and twensory. Twuck off. Etcetera. Why do I mention this? From the Oregon Bus Project comes news of the latest Twitter analysis tool this morning, and it’s making me Twiss my Twants. The […]
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Local Journalism On Think Out Loud
In advance of the OPB-sponsored “We Make The Media” conference this Saturday, there’s a discussion of THE FUTURE OF MEDIA IN PORTLANDTM on OPB this morning. Listen live, for the next 40 minutes.
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Shameless Self Promotion
Vote now! Currently, 66% of KXL listeners have “never heard of” us. I’m working on my Glenn Beck face.
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The Future of PDX Media: Of Ethics & ‘Randyland.’
BREAKING: I’ll be on KXL Radio tomorrow between noon and one o’clock, as an in-studio guest of City Commissioner Randy Leonard, who is guest hosting the Lars Larson show while Larson is out of town. We’ll be discussing these issues, and more. Be sure to tune in. ORIGINAL POST: My God, I had a good […]
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Carrie Prejean Knows From Inappropriate
Carrie Prejean almost storms out of television studio because the questions are too tough—on Larry King Live? Prejean threatened to walk off King’s Wednesday night interview after King asked her why she’d settled a lawsuit against the Miss California USA Pageant…. Prejean didn’t answer. King repeated: “You can’t even say why you settled?” “Larry,” Prejean […]
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The Story Behind the Story
The Atlantic has a great little piece on its website about political activists filling the information void left by laid-off journalists. I tend to agree with Philadephia Inquirer owner Brian Tierney, who thinks newspapers should break the self-flagellating habit of sharing too much bad news about themselves (says Tierney: “The audience for TV news is […]
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What Unseen Prequels?
Scene from the sequel to the unseen “Star Wars: A Lost Cause.” Does anyone know why we’re collectively spending the day thinking of witty titles for unmade movies and posting them on Twitter? It’s a trending topic on Twitter, but most of the ideas are terrible. Some of the most recent #unseenprequels include: The Texas […]
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Portland Observer Joins 21st Century, Yay!!
The Portland Observer has a new website. The paper has been a voice in Portland’s African American community for a long time, but has only just stepped into serious online content, and I’m thrilled to see the development. “We had a website in the past, but it wasn’t working so well, and we’ve updated it […]
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An Ode to the Asian Reporter.
Goddamit, I’m admitting defeat. Whatever the Mercury tries to do that’s a little bit wacky, the local Asian Reporter always, ALWAYS beats the pants off us. Yeah, we released a print version of the internet, but there’s just no way we can match the Reporter‘s consistently idiosyncratic mix of local news, zany international stories and […]
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So, About KUFO’S New Hosts
Oregon Media Central has the scoop: “Kidd Chris” Foley seemed like an easy-going and good-natured DJ shortly after KUFO relaunched, but he quickly warned that his demeanor is only temporary. Foley is a shock jock. He was fired from WYSP Philadelphia in May of last year after this song was sung by an in-studio guest […]
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“I was supposed to go to Jantzen Beach today to MC a costume contest for dogs.”
Every now and then, I think about switching careers to real estate, taxidermy, or delousing. For different reasons I think I’d be talented in each of the three professions, but an especially good delouser, because I’m good with people, and you need tenacity. It’s rewarding work. LICE: Nice work if you can get ’em I […]
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Well, Fuck. Cort and Fatboy Just Got Fired.
Shitty news, Portlanders: KUFO’s Cort and Fatboy just got fired. Their final podcast is here. See updates for the MP3 of the podcast. There aren’t a lot of details as of now, but it sounds like KUFO’s getting a pretty major overhaul—and losing some of Portland’s most talented radio personalities in the process. (The fate […]