Why is it Portland has a Right Wing bias in the Sunday Paper?

[Boxerfan]

I mean I expect a little mix up of opinion. But the bias as of late has been too much. I hope my birdie enjoys pooping on it. But other than that it was not worth reading.

Did they change owners or what?. I remember doing e-mails with one of the editors & they used to be responsive.

But when almost every editorialist & LTTE has a RW bias. The last 2 months of Sundays has been the same...

We deserve better & have the talent. Probably sitting home blogging without jobs!.

I assume it's an ownership thing but I just had to rant.

Carl in Fairview.

[Eatacig]

1. Sunday Paper

(Shh I work there) Its not an ownership issue. Its a management issue. The Publisher, President & Editor have all been replaced. Won't officially happen until Jan. 1st. Well the Publisher has officially been replaced. All new heads of departments also. :-)

[hayu_lol]

2. I assume you are talking about the Oregonian...

the paper has always been on the right side of things but letters and many editorials have been from the center left. I used to see which candidates the Oregonian favored so that I would be sure to vote for the other...many of the issues as well.

K-Falls

[Tyo]

3. I've just cancelled my subscription

Basically all I see in The Oregonian is RW talking points and lies from the editors, human interest stuff that doesn't interest me, and Macy's ads. It's silly to pay for that crap every month. Local news is available from Willamette Week and The Mercury, KPOJ, and on the internet. Should I feel the need to read the Big O I can go to their website.

[cascadiance]

4. Thom Hartmann just said he did too on his show today!

I've never subscribed, and now that newspaper box in front of my house for SURE will stay empty!

[Quantess]

8. I've noticed the local news reporting has decreased in The Oregonian

which was the best part. National news is easily found everywhere else. So now, what's the point?

[0rganism]

5. apprently published by hardcore rightwingers as of Oct. 26 2009

According to a Yes On 66 & 67 ad running in WW, as of last October the Oregonian is published by N. Christian Anderson III, who used to publish the Orange County Register and the Colorado Springs Gazette. The WW ad compared some pre-October editorial positions on the tax issues with the business lobby shilling they're doing now - worth a look if you can find it.

[lmrgreen]

7. Oregonian publisher

The Orange County Register is about as right-wing as can be. I lived there for nearly twenty years and it never went left-ever. If the new publisher of the Oregonian ran the Register, then that explains a lot. I don't subscribe; we get it at the office and I usually read it during lunch but that will stop now. And I won't be using Oregon Live anymore either.

[LWolf]

6. Do you mean the Oregonian?

My local paper, the Bend Bulletin, can be expected to have a right-wing bias, serving a more conservative region.

Still, the Bulletin has been relentless and aggressive in opposing Measures 66 and 67. There is an anti-66/67 and/or anti-teachers' union editorial almost daily, and last week a large front page "news" article featuring an anti-66/67 economic talking head.

[Boxerfan]

9. I found a great alternative for my birds to poop on.Won't be buying the Oregonian anymore

Frankly thats about what we used it for. Th Sunday paper ritual is still one of my pleasures. but reading the opinions section a few months back I saw a distinct shift in stance.

So walking through Lowes I came across rolls of plain brown paper used to shield for painting etc.. Kinda like heavy butcher paper. Works great for cage liner material & waaay less expensive. Years supply is $8.00

Sad an area this progressive can also be so poorly represented by its local paper.The whole news industry can be labeled "sad"-no doubt about that.

Carl.

[Ken Burch]

10. The Oregonian was historically a Republican paper

Used to be lot more so, and the right-wing kind of Republican, not the cuddly, loveable Tom McCall variety. It was almost certainly responsible for Wayne Morse's razor-thin defeat in his 1968 reelection campaign(they viciously attacked Morse's courageous antiwar position while cheerleading for future serial tongue molester Bob Packwood).

[cascadiance]

11. Oregonian just announced layoffs of 37 people today. Mostly in news department...

Perhaps its time to remind them that they MIGHT get more revenue if they actually tried to appeal to the culture here and not keep pushing right wing crap in a city that doesn't want it! They'll continue to lose business, especially if they whack away the news department.

http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2010/02/the_oregonian_announces_layoff.html

The Oregonian announces layoffs of 37 employees
By The Oregonian
February 24, 2010, 9:39AM
The Oregonian announced today the layoffs of 37 employees. The majority are in the news department, with smaller numbers in advertising, circulation and accounting. Affected staff members were notified this morning.

Severance packages were offered. Staffers were informed last year that layoffs were likely this month. The Oregonian, like all newspapers, has endured declining revenues the past few years, the result of the recession and the migration of advertising to the Internet.

After the layoff, Oregonian Publishing Company will have 750 employees, more than 200 of whom work in the news department.

“These layoffs are a painful but necessary part of our 2010 budget, which was developed to ensure financial stability for The Oregonian now and in the future,” said N. Christian Anderson III, president and publisher of The Oregonian.

...

[0rganism]

12. who needs news staff when you can editorialize on the front page?

Under this Anderson freak, the Oregonian is trying its best to emulate Fox "News" in print format.

I think the business model goes something like this: whatever they lose in revenue from irate former-subscribers and ads from local businesses who become sick of their right-wing bullshit, they'll make back threefold from the multinational corporatists who will come to view the paper as a handy propaganda outlet. Regarding subscriptions, the Oregonian will continue to reach the apathetic and ill-informed, and may make minor inroads with rabid rightists (of which Portland has its share, and the surrounding burbs have even more). Financially, I suspect they'll just about break even and might just stand to gain from this sick behavior.

:shrug:

[Tyo]

13. Possibly, but they're still trying to entice us back

Got a call from them the other night trying to talk us into re-subscribing by offering all sorts of options and cut rate deals. It took me a while to get the lady to understand that it wasn't about the cost. We simply don't want the paper. I don't like the politics of the new publisher, the news coverage reeks, they devote huge amounts of real estate to sappy and boring human interest crap while slighting the hard stuff. We haven't missed it since it's been gone, They could offer to send it round for free and we wouldn't want it. She finally got the point.