Oregon Media Insiders

Ouch...a tellingly awkward analogy, likening one's work product to "stool."

The Oregonian isn't that bad; sometimes a little thin, as some have said, and much of the "reworking" of Oregonian copy that I've noticed in TV and radio is a rewriting of the same news releases and public-record government actions that some at the Oregonian seem to believe they, alone, know about.

Or it's a rewriting of AP copy--something the Oregonian itself uses heavily (like today's lead story in Sports about the crooked NBA ref), along with work by bigger newspapers and news services (like half of today's front page).

Same thing happens in markets like Omaha. This is not evolutionary superiority, although it's fair to say our fine local paper is an evolutionary predecessor.