After the police bureau issued their Occupy Portland “public safety update” yesterday (peppered with unverified reports of violence, poop buckets, and raw sewage flowing down the street), local news outlets naturally swarmed all over it. Local FOX affiliate KPTV regurgitated the police bureau’s claims, but actually included a lot of quotes from the occupiers. KATU unsurprisingly reprinted the entire report without questioning a single item. Ditto for the Oregonian. Ditto for KOIN Local 6 (who, in their defense, have successfully completed a month of broadcasts without a single top story about a dog running down the freeway). And KGW presented the most balanced report, actually questioning the veracity of some of the police bureau’s claims.

BUT WHO CARES ABOUT THAT, RIGHT? LET’S READ SOME NUTBAG COMMENTS FROM THOSE STORIES! (P.S. Way to feed the misinformed public hysteria, guys.)

From Fox:

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From KOIN Local 6:

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More after the jump!

From the O:

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From KATU:

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A voice in the wilderness.

Bang bang, choo-choo train, let me see you shake that thang. Wm. Steven Humphrey is the editor-in-chief of the Portland Mercury and has held the job since 2000. (So don’t get any funny ideas.)

18 replies on “Occupy Portland: NOW What are the Commenters Saying?”

  1. Media coverage is a double-edged sword, isn’t it?
    I heard on the telly this morning there is a march planned for today (?), and yet I haven’t read of it here.
    What gives?

  4. Funny, I could have almost exactly predicted those responses from the various local news organizations. Did KATU manage to work in something about cyclists running stop signs?

  5. Nothing new here. All the anti-occupiers ever seem to offer up is knee-jerk(*) derision, contempt and condescension.

    * from Webster’s online dictionary:

    knee-jerk (adj): readily predictable, automatic, reacting in a readily predictable way

    You see, frankieb, the shoe fits perfectly.

  7. @C.O.
    “simple yes or no……these parks belong to everyone, right(including the 1%!)?”

    Simple answer: YES! But be sure to bring your own sleeping bag. (Sorry, the rest of the 99% are sick of paying your way.)

  9. “Occupy” is imploding.
    Between this money problem, and the problems within the group about drugs / alcohol / fighting….
    it is imploding.
    Does this mean they can’t pay to fix the damage they caused the park, that they assured us to fix?

  12. What seems to me to be the most unfortunate aspect of the Occupy movement (nationwide – not just here in Portland) is how badly figures in the mainstream media seem to want it to fail. The people who comment on the stories by the mainstream media don’t seem to be much better, either.

    Kind of sad, all things considered, when people are too myopic and narrow-minded, or too paralyzed by their partisanship to stop, and take a moment to actually think critically about the nature of a political movement that purports be trying to help them out of one of the worst financial and economic crises in the history of this country.

    I simply don’t understand why so many people seem to want socio-political movements that try, however naively, to effect positive social change to fail. It’s like this country is mostly populated by grumpy masochists or something.

  14. frankieb, I’ve only posted about your knee-jerk reaction to any stories about the occupy movement four times (five, if you count this one). How many times have you posted your derision about the movement yet? Is it more or less than the number of times you posted “Honeybucket”?

  16. Hey, wait, this is a comment trap, isn’t it? Thanks, Steve. btw, whats the weather gonna be this weekend and what’s on TV this Friday?

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