More Print Gossip: Former Trib Writer Trying to Shop Tell-All

Submitted by LynnS on Tue, 03/14/2006 - 2:11pm.

I hear that Ben Jacklet, late of the Trib, has been trying to get Portland Monthly to run a first-person piece of his about the paper's startup and where it is these days, the theme: "Broken promises." So far the PM editors aren't interested; for some reason, neither Bob Pamplin, Steve Clark nor Dwight Jaynes are talking to Jacklet. More than one printster is interested in reading it, though...

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Portland Monthly running scared

Submitted by Anonymous Source on Tue, 03/14/2006 - 4:09pm.

Portland Monthly does not want the Tribune to dig too deeply into the magazine's circulation claims, which are exaggerated greatly.

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Now, that's some good dirt

Submitted by Anonymous Source on Wed, 03/15/2006 - 9:23am.

Do you have evidence of Portland Monthly's exaggeration?

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Oh hell,

Submitted by Anonymous Source on Tue, 03/14/2006 - 9:53pm.

When did the Portland Monthly EVER do a meaningful story? It's an upscale shopoper. A slick one, but very lightweight. PDX Magazine has a better upside.

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PDX Magazine

Submitted by Anonymous Source on Sun, 03/19/2006 - 4:49pm.

PDX Magazine is sloppily edited. They focus on Arts & Entertainment features, not expose journalism. The owner--a portly former suit salesman who inherited money from his family--has no idea what he is doing. His sales staff turns over more often than Paris Hilton at a five-star hotel. PDX Magazine is fading fast. A mediocre enterprise.

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PDX Magazine

Submitted by Anonymous Source (not verified) on Sat, 09/02/2006 - 1:06am.

re: "PDX Magazine is fading fast. A mediocre enterprise." Have you seen this magazine lately? It's amazing. I love how people like you (who probably work in some form of print media) go around bashing other forms of media. Let the rags stand on their own.

(Note from Cablenut: Edited to remove mild profanity. If you wanna call someone a name, it might be best to stand behind your words, and not snipe anonymously, Mr. Jerkoff --Cablenut)

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Remember when Portland Monthly blew Lars?

Submitted by Anonymous Source on Wed, 03/15/2006 - 12:25pm.

Gee, did that magazine get LETTERS after their sloppy bj of Lars, who happens to live in a leaky dinghy in Vancouver.

Now, if only there were enough literate people on that side of the river to support a "Vancouver Monthly"... first cover article... how to score in Esther Short Park!

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Ask to see their printing proof

Submitted by Anonymous Source on Wed, 03/15/2006 - 1:16pm.

As the managazine to show them a printing bill and you will see how they lie.

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Padding the numbers

Submitted by Anonymous Source on Thu, 03/16/2006 - 11:56am.

Believe me, the Tribune is hardly in a position to be questioning the circulation figures of other publications. The stacks of unread papers in my neighborhood have been much larger over the past few weeks. I suspect they're printing more issues now because they need to prove they're distributing the numbers they claim to be.

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Granted,

Submitted by Anonymous Source on Thu, 03/16/2006 - 10:26pm.

most of Portland Monthly's content is fluffy lists and social events, but they did a much better job on the Randall Woodfield serial killer case than the O. They were the first to tell how an unsolved murder from the 80s was linked to RW earlier this year. Read about it in the O a couple days after PM's story, and it was already rather stale . . .
Personally I'd love to see someone else's take on their experience at the Trib. I'm sure WW would run it...

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Who wants to take on Dr. Moneybags?

Submitted by Anonymous Source on Fri, 03/17/2006 - 12:00am.

Heard that Pamplin has his own staff of lawyers ready to pounce on anyone who crosses his empire.

Who has the dough to take on Mr. Moneybags? Who knows? One might end up in one of those barrels of toxic waste they burried in the Willamette River!

I think ex-employees are afraid to speak out; current employees are afraid to breathe.

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that's silly.

Submitted by Anonymous Source on Sun, 03/19/2006 - 3:39pm.

I don't know anyone -- current or former -- at the trib who is afraid of much, dr. bob included. his is an ethereal presence, one that has no corporeal impact on the paper itself. I'm not even sure he reads the thing anymore.

if people haven't written a belly-of-the-beast story about the place for another outlet, it's probably because they are too busy with their own new gig or respectful of the lower-level people still there.

and on top of that, the ex-employees are usually too depressed by the experiences that led them to depart to want to get too deep into it and the people who remain or have recently come on board are too damn busy keeping their heads down and cranking out good stories.

I say again: no one there, and no one who has left, is afraid. please.

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