If you’re still playing the field as far as 4th of July weekend plans, I hereby submit this for your consideration: As you may know, longtime Mercury Art Director Justin “Scrappers” Morrison left us a few months ago to concentrate fully on his own publication, Stay Wild, which is devoted to making sure your life […]
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Sean Hannity’s Logic: Ban Confederate Flags? Then Ban Rap Music! (WHAT?)
Fox News’ Sean Hannity is upset, you guys! (Yes, I know he’s always upset… but let’s put a pin in that for a moment.) Sean Hannity is upset that America is vilifying the racist Confederate flag—just because some racist Confederate flag lover spent his life worshipping the Confederate flag and the warped sense of racist […]
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Fox News Strains to Jam Charleston Murders into Their Unified Field Theory of Absolutely Everything
A white man targets a historic African American church with ties to the struggles against slavery and Jim Crow and to the Civil Rights Movement. He makes clearly racist statements as he guns down the church’s pastor and other members of the congregation. He runs around wearing the flags of rabidly racist—and blessedly extinct—white-ruled/black-majority African […]
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CNN’s Too Many Cooks Parody is Actually Very Awesome
I never thought I’d say this again… but CNN has done something right! If you enjoyed Adult Swim’s Too Many Cooks sitcom parody, and you’re baffled by the upcoming 2016 presidential election, you owe it to yourself to watch this version of Too Many Cooks featuring all the players who will surely take a big […]
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Read Some David Carr Today
Listen to Carr punch those fucking keys. Listen to what Carr says. David Carr, one of the country’s best newspaper writers, died last night. He collapsed in the New York Times newsroom; earlier that night, he’d hosted a panel discussion between Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, and Laura Poitras. He was 58. Anything I could say […]
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Stay Wild: Winter Edition
Our art director, Justin “Scrappers” Morrison, apparently has a lot of free time, and so you might be aware of the other magazine he founded last year, Stay Wild. It’s designed to inspire you to get outside, whether it be to surf, hike, hunt, skateboard, or some other mildly death defying activity. That kind of […]
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Tribune Pulls Story Questioning Protests Over Police Conduct in Light of Gang Shootings
A front-page Portland Tribune story connecting last week’s gang-related shooting outside Rosemary Anderson High School to ongoing protests over police violence and fractured ties with Portland’s black community has been scrubbed online by the paper’s publisher amid concerns it wasn’t sufficiently developed. The short article—headlined “Who’s Doing the Shooting? In Portland, It’s Not the Police”—opened […]
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If You Read One Article About the Rolling Stone/UVA Debacle, It Should Be the One Written By a UVA Student
As I’m sure many people did, I spent this weekend watching in utter dismay as a certain Rolling Stone piece on sexual assault at the University of Virginia, written by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, 180’d from a powerful, viral success to a case of questionable reporting, and Rolling Stone, in an apology, initially seemed to put […]
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KGW Edits Footage of San Francisco Cop Attack into Coverage of Portland’s Ferguson Protests
KGW tells the Mercury it will “look into” why disturbing footage of a San Francisco police officer attacked with a construction sign during raucous Black Friday protests and looting in that city somehow was edited into at least two recent packages about a lengthy Ferguson protest in Portland over the weekend. Update 1:05 PM: Right […]
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“The Camera is a Superb Liar”: Guardian Takes a Swing at that Oregonian Photo
Courtesy ABC News; Original Photo by Johnny Nguyen for the Oregonian It’s the photo published on multiple news sites (as seen above) and shared on a million Facebook pages; Oregonian freelance photog Johnny Nguyen’s touching shot of a crying 12-year-old hugging a Portland cop after the Ferguson non-indictment. One could see the photo as a […]
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Finally! A Magazine for Our Most Underserved Community!
From the folks who bring you the Portland Monthly (home of “Portland’s 100 Best Dental Hygienists”), here’s a new magazine that finally recognizes a marginalized, and underserved community: I bet they need some article ideas. Why don’t you supply them in the comments?
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Protesters React to TV News’ Coverage of Ferguson
Yesterday’s grand jury announcement in Ferguson caused a huge headache for just about everyone involved… including national TV news organizations trying to cover it—and especially CNN, whose loss of respect across the country seems to have reached an all-time high. For example, here’s one man’s opinion of Don Lemon’s botched CNN coverage of the protests: […]