An internal memo at the Oregonian laying out plans for the paper’s future has found its way to Oregon Media Central this morning. Following the paper’s second buyout offer last month: “We will not abandon our foundation of beat reporting,” the memo says, “but beats will be redefined along areas of expertise of most interest […]
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Twitter’s Up The Shitter
In the mean time, feel free to leave your Tweets in the comments. @kiala, I did this for your mental health.
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God Bless The Oregonlive Commenters
In this case I would say they’re right on point. Four mental health groups will call on three officers involved in the death in custody of James Chasse to resign at 9am.
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About This Glenn Beck Internet Meme
Friday afternoons were made for stories like this: WIPO is considering a domain name dispute between conservative commentator Glenn Beck and the owner of a satire site called GlennBeckRapedAndMurderedAYoungGirlIn1990.com. Beck is suing the proprietor of the site, claiming that it’s a violation of the “trademark of his name.” Can’t sue in regular court, because of […]
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On Giving Credit Where It’s Due
HOW MANY TIMES?!?! If you’re going to rip off another local media outlet, give them credit. If it’s not your paper’s policy to do so, change the policy. Also: The days are disappearing where newspapers can act like assholes to one another. We’re all in this together, and I’d like us all to start acting […]
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Stupid Fucking Credulous Hack of the Day: It’s Bryan Denson Again!
Here’s Bryan Denson’s stupid fucking credulous hackery, courtesy of the Oregonian. Here’s my Stupid Fucking Credulous Hack post about Denson. Here’s the stupid fucking long email exchange between me and Bryan about his stupid fucking credulous hackery. In his first of many emails Bryan stated that my original post included “a fantastic number of inaccuracies.” […]
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Cops Raid Homeless Feed While Shooting Cops
Not content with crashing one of their police vehicles the other day—possibly while chatting with the camera crew in the back seat—Portland’s police raided a homeless feed with the crew of the TV show COPS on September 10, prompting Street Roots to have a well-justified cow: Shortly after 5 p.m. on Sept. 10, at the […]
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Stupid Fucking Credulous Hack of the Day: An Illuminating Email Exchange
Dear Dan, It’s always a pleasure to be named Hack of the Day by a publication I’ve never heard of [Referring to our sister paper, The Stranger—eds.]. Many thanks for the honor. I realize you are just trying to entertain readers, so I won’t quibble with the fantastic number of inaccuracies in your editorial. But […]
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Stupid Fucking Credulous Hack of the Day: The Oregonian‘s Bryan Denson
Bryan Denson at the Oregonian—the award-winning Bryan Denson—had a huge piece in Tuesday’s paper about heroic efforts to eradicate illegal Mexican “marijuana plantations” on public lands. It’s the usual drug war stenography/stupid fucking credulous hackery: only “authorities” are quoted, no comments are sought from anyone on the other side, and nowhere in Denson’s 1200-word, 28-paragraph […]
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Colbert On Tasers
It all starts about five minutes in. You can read the Mercury‘s coverage of the so-called “less lethal” weapons here.
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Mercury’s Lobbyist Survey Subject Of Spat
Thanks to Oregon Media Central for picking up on these remarks by state legislator Jefferson Smith about our Advocates, Mercenaries, Or Minions Of Satan feature from earlier this year. I don’t know about you but I’m checking OMC on a twice daily basis these days—the media coverage is really top notch.
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Council To Commend O Publisher Stickel
Ever the renegade communist, City Commissioner Dan Saltzman has introduced a resolution onto the city council agenda this Thursday to “recognize the distinguished career of Fred Stickel and his contributions to the City of Portland and the State of Oregon.” Stickel announced his retirement on September 9. WHEREAS, City Council recognizes Fred Stickel 35 years […]