Breaking news (17 hours ago)
Earlier today I noted that Portland's daily newspaper had whitewashed last night's Lloyd Center shooting. And indeed, until almost noon today, here is all that publication had to say. Late this morning, they got around to posting this, which is something a lot closer to doing their jobs. Of course, it's buried in the tangled mess known as OregonLive, and it took an alert reader to find it for us. But for the record, they did report the story -- no doubt after a lot of consultation between the editors and the advertising people.
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Comments (6)
Figuratively speaking, there's an alligator in Portland's living room. I wonder why the media won't aggressively report on it.
Posted by David E Gilmore | March 25, 2010 2:24 PM
Oh, that must have been fun. In fact, I think I saw a movie that recreated that consultation. Isabella Rossellini filling in for Editorial and Dennis Hopper for Advertising, right?
Posted by Texas Triffid Ranch | March 25, 2010 4:41 PM
Oh, censorship is alive and well in China - I mean Portland.
Posted by Bill | March 25, 2010 7:17 PM
How did the cops capture a gunning toting crazy guy without killing him?
Posted by Don | March 25, 2010 11:44 PM
I live close in and Lloyd Center has been my shopping mall for about seven years. I enjoy the mixed ethnicity of the area and the convenience of parking there, as opposed to downtown.
This change in the Lloyd Center has only happened in the last year or so. There seems to be a lot of gang banger types hanging out there lately. I'm not talking kids who want to look like Snoop Dog, I'm talking serious gang banger types like you see if you walk a little too far from the USC campus. They are obviously not shopping and they are not just drinking Jamba Juice and hanging out with friends.
I was there a couple weeks ago shopping and really felt there was something going on that non-gang members wouldn't necessarily see. My street sense from the years I spent in LA and Oakland started to kick in. For the first time ever, I was afraid to be in that mall. I seriously may stop shopping at Lloyd Center if they don't get that situation under control.
Posted by anonymous | March 27, 2010 9:47 AM
This story was easy to find in the hard copy Oregonian which I still get, I know I know. Hey, I like to clean my windows with newsprint! But before people get all hot and bothered, this does come up every once in awhile. Remember the poor young man who went to the movies with his girlfriend and got "wilded" by a bunch of youths? He got bounced down some cement stairs and is head injured to this day. Lloyd Center has always had its share of problems...The economy is just exacerbating it. If these kids had jobs...which they don't get in a good economy anyway...
Posted by Margery Sharp | March 27, 2010 9:53 PM