Oregon Media Insiders

Dear Lynn S....It was the desk's fault. I have a copy of the memo that was e-mailed to everybody including Huston from the desk. If you want a copy I can send it to you. This memo was sent all the reporters involved. The memo went out to 14 people including Huston, and his photographer that morning. Everybody there KNOWS it.

The memo says "The plan is to be live in the am shows saying, she's arriving here". Those are instructions to Huston and the photographer. They were to be there at noon also.

They gave him bogus information, he does live shots about Bush's pending arrival, then he finds out the plane got there the day before. He just felt so angry and humiliated. But, he never went into a tirade. Then, they come down on him for the Bush family problems that every media outlet talks about now and then, which should not have been a problem.

The desk at KOIN just screwed up and he was fed up with the place. They didn't have a chance to fire him, he was gone. I don't think the place was out to screw him, but I certainly see why he felt that way. They didn't show him much consideration. Just came down to incompetence and short staff I guess.

And I don't feel he has had anything to do with postings here. He once told me Jeff A and Teresa S. told him on his first day of work the bloggers would do nothing but bash him, so don't go on those sites. They gave him good advice wouldn't you say? I never saw him once get on this site or talk about it. So I'm sure he knows better than to even look here at this point. And everybody knew his viewpoints from staff meetings and talks around the newsroom so it's easy for someone to repeat them.

I don't think he was a bad hire. And he wasn't a fish out of water. KOIN just doesn't know how to capitalize on peoples talents. That's the problem. Not him. In fact, he was very good. I do think people here can't deal with diversity. Some of the usual suspects were just vicious toward him. KOIN just is too stuck in it's ways and it just does same old, same old M.O.

Example, Ken Boddie is great and they stick him with weekends for a hundred years. There's no excuse for that! There have been any number of other talented people besides Lynn that just feel abused and leave. Then they wonder why they get sued. No surprise.
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Yeah, because if there's one word I associate with Lynn Huston, it's "diversity."

Well, because he was not from Oregon, he might as well have been Black or Hispanic. Or worse yet, he could have been from California! That's cause for anybody to be treated like a second class citizen in Oregon.

Lynn S or someone else, do you know where Lynn Huston has worked over the years? What Mr. Huston's background is? I'm just curious, I've never really heard where he came from and what his back story is. Lynn seemed like a nice guy. But it also seemed he was a fish out of water.

It came in to PDX the day before. KGW used it's airport skycam all morning long showing the jet on the tarmac. If someone at KOIN had been watching the competition, they would have seen their error.. or Lynn's error. I'm not sure the plane mistake mattered much though. Lynn said the First Lady was here for a drug conference and then used that bad information as an excuse to talk about the Bush daughters and their alcohol use in college. He topped it off with discussion of Jeb's daughter and her substance abuse issues. While the abuse information is correct, it really had nothing to do with the story or the First Lady's interest in helping at-risk youth. Anybody who doesn't realize the seriousness of the error, including Lynn, has no business contributing to a newscast.

Disagree. The Bush family problems are the reasons why she is involved with the group she was talking to. She's talked about it before and it's well known. Very relevant and he should have talked about it.
Regardless what happened, he'll be better off by leaving. Anyone is really.

Wow. If there was anything about him, he was not disorganized! Yea his desk was cluttered but yours would be to if you were doing as much as he did. He also sent out DETAILED memos every day of the stories he had set up for the morning. And some people were too lazy to read them! I actually heard people in the newsroom on several occasions ask what he was doing when he sent a memo to them the previous day or the night before! IT's true! All some people wanted to do was bitch about him when they didn't have a leg to stand on.

And this cul-de sac thing. That's more bullshit. I've heard it pronounced cul-de-saw before. I only know of ONE instance he pronounced it that way. Everybody wanted to make a big deal out of it. There's a lot of things that get pronounced ways that make no sense. Take the local pronouncer for COUCH. It's just like some people at KOIN saying WARSHinton. But, nobody comes down on them for that.

Constantly making factual errors? What are you smoking? And what he said about the Bush family was fact. Everybody knows what he said was fact. Otherwise KOIN would have run a correction. Did we do that? NO, CAUSE WHAT HE SAID WAS FACT! Bad judgement? Hardly. And he pointed out that past problems in the family are why shes makes appearances like the one in Portland. ALSO TRUE!

And why would they worry about a Laura Bush interview anyway. The desk sends him a memo with the wrong information that ended up on air and they worry about an interview with Laura Bush? Talk about bad judgment, I'd say it's on management part.

And most of the time he was out of the station doing stories. I can't tell you how many times I saw and him and a photographer get back at 1:30 or 2 PM when their schedule is 4am-1. Then Lyn would stay to make sure he handed in scripts complete WITH LOG TIMES AND instructions for editing. Something a lot of people including producers never bother with. He was good about that.

IF YOU REALLY WANT TO SEE DISORGANIZATION JUST GO BACK TO EDIT OR TOC ABOUT A HALF HOUR BEFORE MOST NEWSCASTS AND SEE THE GUYS DEAL WITH THE DISORGANIZED STUFF THAT GETS HANDED THEM AT THE LAST MINUTE BY PRODUCERS AND REPORTERS, WHEN IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN HANDED THEM HOURS BEFORE.

He was very competent and people were looking for stones to throw at him the second he came here. He did a lot of great stuff and nobody here gives a shit. And he's in good company with a growing number that got tired of it here and left.

Lynn for the love of God, just move on. We have.

I'd submit three in a row...
Emmis
Montecito
New Visions

Three strikes and you're...

It was nice while it lasted... but it all ended the day Emmis walked in the door.

KOIN has been the equivalent of a Bentley being taken to the "chop shop". Nothing left but a frame, some rusted metal and hardly looking at all like what it did originally... at least there are a couple of rats that have turned it into a good home.

sad

I must confess I jump every time I see "Lynn" in a subject line. :)

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Lynn Siprelle * Fairy Blogmother

none of this stuff had anything to do with why Mrs. Bush was in town. That is the issue at hand.....a point that a lot of you are missing.

"A reporter asks the first family about how they have dealt with multiple family members misuse of alcohol and drugs."

One thing to ask, quite another to make statements before you even get an interview. It might be fact, and reasonable to ask when you have the interview, but to do a stand up with that content almost seems like someone didn't want the station to get an interview.

4a-12a

I totally agree. Except maybe they should hire a new male for the mornings.