Sinking into silence
Word is out that Oregonian columnist Renee Mitchell is taking the company's buyout offer and moving on. I suppose that part of me should be pleased at this development. I've had lots of issues with Mitchell's columns during her career, and in my crankier moments I've even called for her stepping down to make room for someone else.
The problem, of course, is that as she's stepping down, no one else will be there to take her place at the Incredible Shrinking Newspaper. The bottom line is one fewer voice commenting on public affairs in Portland. And that is certainly no cause for celebration.
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Comments (6)
maybe its just my browser, but links to oregonian stories (not blog entries) are returning "story not found" errors.
Posted by roo | September 10, 2008 9:56 AM
Which leaves a vacancy for a columnist, Jack.
Nut up!
Posted by Matt Davis | September 10, 2008 10:23 AM
My mom&pop neighborhood grocer told me next Monday the price of news stand Oregonian is going up to 75 cents from current 50 cents, and the Sunday Oregonian from $1.50 to $2.00. I am already skipping the Monday paper. Maybe I'll start skipping the Saturday paper, too.
Posted by Bob Clark | September 10, 2008 11:52 AM
Why anyone spends money for the Fish-Wrap, beats me.
Posted by KISS | September 10, 2008 1:59 PM
In the tightening household-budget vise, squeezing us between consumer goods (food, clothing, home maintenance) and durables (appliances, autos) jacking up prices with the percentage skimmed ('above the line') into ad-money sponsoring 'free'-media LIES in circulated (sociopolitical) 'news,' (whew), against the other thieving hand of Republican LIARS administration destroying family economies and defrauding public-monies appropriations, (think: Enron's Kenny-boy, Pentagon's no-bid'ness, CoP's PDC profligacy), cinching a stranglehold on our survival, a tourniquet on our traffick of lifeblood information -- then what is going to pop first?
Do we sooner cancel subscription to the worthless newspaper or subscription to the worthless pay TV, in order to afford commuting to our workplace and putting food on the table?
For that question, 'columnists' Renee Mitchell, et al., is not any part of an answer.
Posted by Tenskwatawa | September 10, 2008 3:16 PM
Oh, damn. Rene' and her race card pulling ilk would have been on the minds of voters this November suggesting whose philosophy would have the ear of what candidate.
Posted by Jack Mondragon | September 10, 2008 8:33 PM