Oregon Media Insiders

I am stuck some place without internet for a few days, so if you've been waiting for your comments etc to be approved, you'll have to be patient. If I'm lucky I'll be able to hop on once a day. Things will be back to normal, or as normal as they ever are around here, by Monday.

Here's your open thread.

Being a serious student of the human condition, I am always on the lookout for tendencies and patterns. Since I began my tumultuous career on the Oregon Media Insiders web site, I have spotted what can only be described as a most disturbing exemplar, an anti-intellectual orthodoxy that seems to have tunneled to the very core of Portland media members.

The content of locally created media web sites has always been regulated in one form or another, however between sometime in the most recent past and now, OMI, in conjunction with the Fairy Blog Mother and “cablenut” formed what the OMI Anti-Media Activities Committee (AMAC)- (known colloquially as A-Mack).

Were the Portland stations still too busy congratulating and criticising themselves over Gearhart coverage to get the story of the day Wednesday? At least 9 people from Southern Oregon killed in the worst air firefighting disaster in American history. The Oregonian was all over it. So guess we'll see you today?

“ When you work in television, you never get to really sense the experience of the audience – you can’t see them or hear them or know what they think.”
Grant McOmie

This quote, taken directly from the Forest Grove News-Times, caps what this critic has said all along about the elitist Portland media. In that crowded coterie of self-congratulatory asses, the honor of the most inflated egos goes to the broadcast television news types. Talk about out of touch.

The Plot Quickens

After wading through myriad comments on Hunter Thompson’s last posting having to do with the lambastation of the Portland Drive-By media, two comments caught this writer’s eye. The first was a comment by the now familiar TALPDX.

TALPDX proclaimed annoyance at my existence. In the course of said critique, TALPDX employed a number of mixed metaphors, a sign of amateurish composition. Of course, if one has followed TALPDX for any length of time, one knows that TALPDX toils in one of the Portland television sweatshops. Hence the hackneyed writing.

Winston Churchill pointed out that, “Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.”

Trolls wander into every website now and again, including here at OMI. Please don't feed them. That means not responding to their posts. Some trolls respond to their own posts anonymously to make it look as if people are talking to them; this is referred to as sock puppetry. It has happened here quite recently, and quite a bit.

Trolls want attention. That's why they're trolls. Don't give it to them. Thank you.

Once again, the average OMI reader displays his/her true colors and demonstrates why television, and Television News in particular, is in dire straits. After castigating this writer for excessive banality, utter vapidness, mind-numbing stupidity and for being a generally poor imitation of the real Hunter Thompson (may god rest his soul) one person who posts to the site asked:

“If this site had the capability to ignore, I would do so. (Does it have that capability?)”

The site owner and operator replied: “not yet But I'll look into it.”

Spring Arbitrons are in for Portland. As usual I don't have the demo, but I do have the 12+. And the market leader, for the first time, is a Spanish language station, El Rey 93.1. The top ten stations:

KRYP-FM Regional Mexican 6.4
KWJJ-FM Country 5.5
KKCW-FM AC 5
KGON-FM Classic Rock 4.7
KUPL-FM Country 4.7
KEX-AM News/Talk 4.1
KINK-FM Triple A 3.6
KKRZ-FM CHR/Top 40 3.6
KPOJ-AM Talk 3.5
KUFO-FM Rock 3.4

Who saw this coming? I sure didn't!