KATU--is the only station with a full time bureau
Submitted by Anonymous Source (not verified) on Wed, 09/27/2006 - 4:20pm.

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The only Oregon television station with a full-time Capitol presence is Portland-based KATU-TV, which had shut down its Capitol bureau but reopened it full time in 2000.

Roberta Altstadt, executive producer at the network, said viewers might be turned off by the word ?politics,? but they are keenly interested in the decisions made by politicians, such as funding schools, protecting air quality and regulating payday loan businesses.

Although Altstadt likes to air exclusive stories from Salem, the public would benefit if all news outlets took a bigger interest in government, she said.

?It would be better for every Oregonian if all the news organizations were down there showcasing what politicians are doing or not doing,? she said.

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