Oregon Media Insiders

Here's a link (feel free to shorten, Lynn, I don't know how)
http://www.dailyastorian.com/main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=392&Arti...
to an oddly self-serving editorial in the local Astoria paper, which makes the strange claim that the storm was virtually ignored by the Portland media, and that it was Wednesday before it was covered by the Oregonian. Maybe their delivery was late, because my copies of the O had extensive coverage.

Plus, Portland radio and TV were all over it, days in advance, and newsrooms were fending off complaints about overcoverage practically from the moment the storm hit. TV reporters were deployed up and down the coast starting Sunday. Radio newscasts were filled with information; I even heard one station playing up the Clatsop and Tillamook County school closures in the belief--because they had no way of quickly verifying otherwise--that local coast radio was down.

Of course, the editorial is right to say that the best coverage is local coverage. But the writer kind of cavalierly suggests that people in the Portland media don't care about anything beyond the city limits, and as the ongoing devotion to this story shows, nothing could be less true.