Ana Marie Cox, founding editor of Wonkette, blogger for Time Magazine, political fiction scribe and overall fantastic reporter, was the Washington Editor for Radar Magazine until last Friday when everyone was laid off and the mag was shuttered. Cox has been covering the McCain campaign for two years, and Radar was paying for her to […]
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Rachel Maddow on McCain’s Campaign
I’ve been enjoying Rachel Maddow’s show on MSNBC a great deal over the last few days since a friend of mine suggested I check it out. Here she is on the implosion of McCain’s campaign. I especially like it when she describes the campaign’s reactionary status as being like “electrified frogs’ legs.” Check it out […]
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This Is the Most Depressing Article I’ve Ever Read
This dude lives at the mall. Literally. From Time Magazine: …When the Americana at Brand opened in Glendale, Calif., in May, shoppers really got a chance to make themselves at home. That’s because the $400 million retail complex includes not just Cole Haan, Barnes & Noble and Urban Outfitters but also 100 condos and 238 […]
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Help A Blogger Out
As someone happened to ask me on the weekend, “What the hell is happening to all these journalists getting fired everywhere?” At the time I bluffed some answer like, “they’re going to have to get more creative and fill a new niche” or something. But the truth is rather sadder: they’re lost. They’re utterly, utterly […]
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What Exactly Is Gotcha Journalism?
Wikipedia says the term refers “to methods of interviewing which are designed to entrap the interviewee into making statements which are damaging or discreditable to their character, integrity or repute.” In other words, to asking well-researched, incisive or pointed questions. Right? Granted, there’s a little more to it, including the selective editing of footage for […]
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San Francisco’s Own Sit/Lie Process
Last December the mayor’s public safety policy manager Maria Rubio took a trip to San Francisco with the vice president of the Portland Business Alliance, Mike Kuykendall. They were there to talk to mayor Gavin Newsom and others about Portland’s “street access for everyone” (SAFE) program, which spawned our ghastly sit/lie ordinance. Now, San Francisco […]
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Businessweek On Alberta Gentrification
The Portland Real Estate Blog links this morning to a Businessweek article naming Alberta as one of the county’s top 15 “urban areas in transition,” thanks to the influx of entitled white people “artists.” Of course, these transitional neighborhoods, such as Castleberry Hill in Atlanta, Wynwood in Miami, and Northeast Capitol Hill in Washington, aren’t […]
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More PDX Nudity Confusion
Cosmic Charlie at Our PDX Network has posted an anecdote about riding the bus yesterday afternoon, watching a man get on wearing low slung trousers that showed his butt crack. As a critique of society gone mad, the writing is as frustrating to read as anything by John Kennedy Toole: The fellow was wrestling with […]
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Mosques Attacked In Response To DVD
As Amy reported on Friday, the Oregonian, along with several other newspapers, sold the right to package an anti-Islamic DVD in today’s edition. The O went ahead and distributed the DVD today, despite calls from Portland’s mayor not to do so: I’ve just heard that in Dayton, Ohio, a mosque was reportedly attacked with a […]
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Couric’s Palin Q&A More Effective As A Woman
Sexism has always been rife in newsrooms across the world, but this morning I read something that to begin with, I thought was sexist, and now, I’ve decided isn’t. James Fallows at the Atlantic writes this morning about Katie Couric’s effectiveness in interviewing Sarah Palin. One of the things he points out is that Couric, […]
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I Still Need $40,000
Last week, I asked you to donate $40,000 to the cause of this white male, at the same time as giving money to Bitch magazine, to save their publication. You all ran off and donated to Bitch, but I got nothing. All I’m saying: It’s not too late.