Oregon Media Insiders

AP is very frustrating to me, and it's because so many of the people who've been through the Portland broadcast desk a) know nothing about Portland, and b) know nothing about broadcast. I can rewrite The Oregonian much, much better than what I see on the AP, and I don't wait until the next day to do it. AP's writing, from an on-air standpoint, is almost universally unreadable. This is true of the local reports as well as national. Their story selection is usually trite and bureaucratic. If there's some story that the whole country is talking about, it's a crapshoot whether it's on AP or not. Yet if Wheeler County is recalling a Commissioner, AP is all over it. So the fact of a new AP guy coming in is relevant, at least to me, because maybe he'll make things better. Or worse.