A while ago, a trend was noticed about Time Magazine covers.\u00c2\u00a0 Time had apparently found a formula to get the magazine to stick out from the cluttered magazine racks: white background, the human subject figures in foreground in sharp relief.<\/p>\n
The Oregonian has evidently found a similar formula.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t quite know how to describe it, but it tends to involve feature articles that have no business being on the first page, non headline headlines, and a large image.\u00c2\u00a0 The other day the Oregonian presented us with an image of a deer, with the headline “Oh Deer”, because apparently “Doe, A Dear!” was too glib.\u00c2\u00a0 The article concerned that whimsical story about the deer that ran was somehow misplaced into downtown Portland.<\/p>\n
Today the front page of the Oregonian has a similar design lay-out, though the headline is more sedate, even as it is not properly front page headline material.\u00c2\u00a0 It concerns NRA approved Gun Control, or some such — Page 3 material, perhaps.\u00c2\u00a0 Actually it seems to be an excuse to use that image of the Virginia Tech killer pointing two guns at the camera — an obnoxiously exploitive image, an act of yellow journalistic tendencies on the Oregonian’s part.\u00c2\u00a0 I would think the Oregonian should know better or have more integrity, but then I have to knock my head and realize they featured a front page story about a Deer the other day.<\/p>\n
The Willamette Week just prefaced the story of the raid on illegal immigrants (undocumented workers, if you demand political correctness from me) at the Del Monte plant with an undercover stint in their employment a few weeks’ ago, reporting that about 90 percent were pretty clearly underpaid illegal immigrants.\u00c2\u00a0 The Portland Mercury ran a raid during the Rose Festival where they removed sidewalk reservation taping on the parade route.<\/p>\n
Figure the newspaper hierarchy out yourownself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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