Oregon Media Insiders

Over at the Forest Grove News Times, longtime KATU reporter Grant McOmie says he's in negotiations with other stations:

“Fortunately, the competition in town disagrees with (KATU’s) decision, so I’ve been in discussion and negotiations with other channels,” said McOmie, who added that he is hoping to begin work again in September or October, reporting on the great outdoors like he has for the last 25 years of his life. ...
“I’ve had hundreds of e-mails and phone calls and letters from viewers, who wished me the very best,” said McOmie, admitting he was surprised at the outpouring of encouragement and praise he has received since he was let go.

“It was, honestly, one of the most humbling experiences I’ve ever gone through in my life. When you work in television, you never get to really sense the experience of the audience – you can’t see them or hear them or know what they think. We never really get a chance to get feedback, and I got a lot of feedback this time.

“It was all so positive and so humbling.”

The Plot Quickens

After wading through myriad comments on Hunter Thompson’s last posting having to do with the lambastation of the Portland Drive-By media, two comments caught this writer’s eye. The first was a comment by the now familiar TALPDX.

TALPDX proclaimed annoyance at my existence. In the course of said critique, TALPDX employed a number of mixed metaphors, a sign of amateurish composition. Of course, if one has followed TALPDX for any length of time, one knows that TALPDX toils in one of the Portland television sweatshops. Hence the hackneyed writing.

“ When you work in television, you never get to really sense the experience of the audience – you can’t see them or hear them or know what they think.”
Grant McOmie

This quote, taken directly from the Forest Grove News-Times, caps what this critic has said all along about the elitist Portland media. In that crowded coterie of self-congratulatory asses, the honor of the most inflated egos goes to the broadcast television news types. Talk about out of touch.