The other day, The Oregonian’s above the fold front page had the headline “Blood Everywhere”.\u00c2\u00a0 It was the big story, more details on the tragic random shooting spree by a lone gunman at the under-age downtown club.\u00c2\u00a0 (Sympathies to all involved).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The headline, I thinks, was inappropriate — I won’t say “Literally ‘If it Bleeds it Leads'”, because that would\u00c2\u00a0entail a novel type of printing, so I substitute the word “figuratively” for “literally”.<\/p>\n
I wandered to the Oregonian online and its coverage on the story, and looked down in the comments.\u00c2\u00a0 This is not such a good idea — what you will see is people throwing shots at the Mayor.\u00c2\u00a0 But I guess it shows how hard-wired people are to the Sam Adams story to wedgie Sam Adams in that.<\/p>\n
Meantime,\u00c2\u00a0a Willamette Week box downtown has been emptied, with someone having written something like, I don’t know Tabloid “Journalism”.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 The Beat marches on from there.<\/p>\n For some slight explication on previous post, I do think Adams should go, but I don’t think so with enough force to pick up pitch forks.\u00c2\u00a0 And the one thing Adams must know comes from his status as “First Gay Mayor of a Major American City”, Portland being Media Market #25 (or is it, like 35?)– and there lies Adams’s problem:\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t have much doubt about most cities\u00c2\u00a0from Market #1 through 25 in\u00c2\u00a0being able to elect a Mayor who is gay, but he just screwed up the slowly moving\u00c2\u00a0out\u00c2\u00a0to the media markets that make\u00c2\u00a0Wheel of Fortune\u00c2\u00a0<\/a>an enduring commodity.<\/p>\n Actually that last point about Wheel of Fortune was a non-sequitur, forced to\u00c2\u00a0mention that odd\u00c2\u00a0shift in cultural norms.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t know\u00c2\u00a0how Wheel of Fortune ratings\u00c2\u00a0break down by way of urban \/ suburban\/ rural.<\/p>\n My point is here to compare to Obama, who I can find a news article saying Obama’s election has inspired various black elected officials to make that next bold step to a further higher office — Representative Artur Davis of Alabama, eyeing the Alabama Governorship, is the best example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The other day, The Oregonian’s above the fold front page had the headline “Blood Everywhere”.\u00c2\u00a0 It was the big story, more details on the tragic random shooting spree by a lone gunman at the under-age downtown club.\u00c2\u00a0 (Sympathies to all involved).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The headline, I thinks, was inappropriate — I won’t say “Literally ‘If it Bleeds it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}