Reply #14: I despise the Oregonian [View All]

[stevedeshazer]

Their coverage of national and local politics has been, is, and will remain abysmal.

The Oregonian is the paper who ignored for DECADES a story about former governor Neil Goldschmidt's raping of a 14 year old girl, which the Oregonian eventually termed "an affair". When Willamette Week, a Portland weekly finally made known that they would scoop the O, they printed verbatim on their front page as fact Goldscmidt's teary apology well AFTER its editorial and news staffers learned that they were going to have their asses kicked by an alternative weekly in their own home town.

This is also the newspaper that just a few years ago covered up the Bob Packwood sexual groping and molestation story until the week AFTER Packwood was re-elected (and was subsequently driven from office in abject shame humiliation, thanks to the Washington Post.)

This is the same newspaper that paid a firm several thousand dollars in an effort to publicly minimize the enormous size of the anti-war marches in Portland in the runup to the illegal Iraq War after months of refusing to cover the news of thousands of protesters marching RIGHT OUTSIDE THEIR CUSHY OFFICES in Portland.

They can go to hell. :grr: