A day late and a dollar short
Every good newspaper story deserves a copycat version. And without any acknowledgment of the similarity -- that's the Oregonian way.
Pitiful. O editors: What (if anything) are you thinking? That no one's going to notice?
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Comments (8)
Goll-lee, Jack, and here I thought it was just a co-inkydinky.
Posted by veiledorchid | October 25, 2007 8:53 AM
If it matters to Oregonians, it's in the New York Times.
Posted by Kari Chisholm | October 25, 2007 9:30 AM
Kari -
I didn't know Oregonians liked fiction that well. The Times has an abysmal record of actual fictional "news" pieces.
While the Washigton Post has had its share of fictional "news", the Post is more reliable than the Times.
Its no secret in the newspaper business that the Post has replaced the times as the national newspaper of record.
Posted by Nonny Mouse | October 25, 2007 9:57 AM
In your mind, perhaps.
Posted by Jack Bog | October 25, 2007 10:59 AM
Hey Nonny.
Don't tell Darth Cheney the Times doesn't matter, it is the VERY FIRST paper he reads every morning, then the Post.
The Post fired Janet Cooke for lying and cheating and stealing, the Times' Judith Miller went to prison for not giving up her sources.
Yes, tis true, a modem is a terrible thing to waste.
Posted by Daphne | October 25, 2007 10:59 AM
Hey Daphne -
Perhaps you'll put your modem to use and Google, among others, Jayson Blair; Lynette Holloway; Rick Bragg; Howell Raines; Nancy Sachs; Susan Seisel, all departed Timesers.
Oh, the Times management, egged on by Maureen Dowd and Brian Calame tried to fire your hero Judith Miller because her writings were not sufficiently citical of Cheney.
The one you can find at the Post, Janet Cooke, which I acnowledged in my original post, doesn't even approach the Times amazing record of lying reporters and the editors who covered up for them.
Why the Times being the first or favorite read of Darth Cheney is a rrecommendation *for* The Times is not quite clear.
Careful you don't wear out your modem getting the facts before you spout off.
Posted by Nonny Mouse | October 25, 2007 12:03 PM
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If it matters to the future scheme of things, it appears somewhere beyond Blue Oregon.
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The NYTimes might be going places unobtainable to The zerO ... 'we ain't in blue Oregon any more, Toto.'
Bloggingheads Goes Big Time: Little Video Site That Could Adopted By NYT, From the wire, October 25, 2007.
Something else for the NYT's online shopping basket: Bloggingheads! Like the "Freakonomics" blog before it, lovably wonky political webcam-debate blog Bloggingheads.tv has been adopted by the New York Times, which will run excerpts from Bloggingheads "diavlogs" (like a dialogue, but on a vlog, get it?) three times a week. The inaugural vid features BH old-timers David Corn and Jim Pinkerton (wherein "old timers" means "have been with BH since the beginning"), and the NYT is pink with pride, pushing the new feature on the homepage both yesterday and today (though apparently yesterday's link didn't work. Oops!). ...this is another example of how the NYT is smartly beefing up its online offerings via partnerships ...
There never was a time so opportune for a local Oregon disproof that Creative insults are a lost art, Bill Duncan for the Capital Press, 10/19/2007
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde
Perhaps the political contenders of today need to learn from the masters.
Posted by Tenskwatawa | October 25, 2007 5:01 PM
If I can interrupt for a moment, the original post here was only about how pathetic the Oregonian has gotten.
But I guess everyone has accepted that premise as a given that isn't even debatable. We have found the topic that apparently unites all of us.
All right, have at it.
Posted by John Rettig | October 25, 2007 6:23 PM