Fleeing the coop, part 2: Ohman out.
Carla Axtman
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Uh...what's with the exodus from the O?
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11:10 a.m.
Oct 29, '12
The paper has been taken over by right-wingers, and is hemmorhaging money--the sensible folks see the writing on the wall.
Ohman is a first-rate editorial cartoonist; he'll do fine.
11:52 a.m.
Oct 29, '12
I am confident that Jack Ohman will find a broader audience for his insightful commentary, but I suspect I will be joined by many others as I experience with sadness his absence in my daily Oregonian. For over 80 years I have been part of a household that subscribes to at least one daily newspaper. It is a habit that the changes in the Oregonian make it difficult to maintain. Jack Ohman has brought such brilliance and humaness to all of us. I thank him.
12:44 p.m.
Oct 29, '12
The Big O will go right as far as it can in the Peoples' Republic. The grass had to look greener elsewhere to Ohman.
12:54 p.m.
Oct 29, '12
It's past due for a newspaper/news outlet that reflects the people of Portland with a business model that can attain success. The O is doomed and should be. I am old enough to remember well the Oregon Journal as a working class pro union newspaper that was successful for good long time until bought out by the Oregonian. A new business model is likely to be wholly digital I should think.
1:33 p.m.
Oct 29, '12
I think the O is about to get Times-Picayuned since both are owned by Advance Pub and they've destroyed New Orleans' Pulitzer Prize winning daily making it an internet site, with three times a week newspaper home delivery. Get ready PDX.
2:32 p.m.
Oct 29, '12
Maybe if Kate Brown gets re-elected she can hire him as the Secretary of State's Official Cartoonist and he can draw pictures so folks like failed mj petitioner can more easily understand the rules.
2:50 p.m.
Oct 29, '12
The O has taken a decided rightward turn. And the paper seems focused on tearing institutions and people down. I thought it was just me, but the not-so-political women in my book group asked "what is up with the Oregonian?" Two of them had already cancelled. From my point of view, I used to look forward to reading the paper every morning. It's a lifelong ritual. But now I spend more time cringing than enjoying what I read. Food Day and Jack's cartoons are the best part.
I don't think they're even trying to be balanced, much less reflect Portland's character. It is sad. Is it too much to ask to have a paper that reflects Portland values that doesn't have escort ads in it?
3:45 p.m.
Oct 29, '12
Glad I got my "OR-7" posters and bumper sticker!
10:25 p.m.
Oct 29, '12
Yea, the Oregonian is a right wing rag. Check out their endorsements. Count the number of Republicans and Democrats. Check out the editorials. As far as Ohman goes, his cartoons have almost always been left wing but that was his right. At least he is going out better than Bob Caldwell who died in the arms of a 23 year old hooker. One must be, in the words of the immortal John Denver, "far out" to believe the Oregonian is a conservative newspaper.
10:58 p.m.
Oct 29, '12
I'm generally a fan of "the city" newspaper, and the idea of a forum based solely on place (our place) rather than ideology or special interest. The latter aren't bad things, but by design they are limited in scope and purpose. If my grandparents were still around I'd want there to be something we could both read and that would speak to us equally well.
That said, I'm pretty close to canning my subscription to the O. I think they put their thumb on the scale in the mayoral election so hard that they knocked the whole thing over, effectively delegitimizing our ballots. Worse, I get the feeling the editors are pleased with this outcome. That's a purpose I have no interest in supporting, and if my grandparents were still around I'd want them to read something else.
12:31 p.m.
Oct 30, '12
I wonder if Willamette Week has any potential to be a city daily for Portland, and fill the vacuum that the demise of the O is having? Is there a future for a Willamette Daily?
1:59 p.m.
Oct 30, '12
Maybe an alt-daily, yeah, but not Willamette Weak. Please not that.
10:13 p.m.
Oct 30, '12
I think the Portland Tribune was (openly or not) aspiring to eventually ramp up to being a daily when they first started. Today, of course, they're a weekly with a web presence. But if the Oregonian folded, maybe the Trib could fill the void.
2:03 p.m.
Oct 30, '12
When I was growing up, I couldn't live without a daily newspaper. Since the last few years, we've not subscribed to The Big O, and we actually have not missed it. It's gotten slight, meagre, a pale shadow of it was just a few years ago. It's clear to me that the e-board long ago decided to afflict the afflicted and comfort the comfortable, and the absolute lack of courage in endorsing nobody in the presidental election still leaves a rotten taste in my mouth. Even Herman Cain had more courage than that, and he was just a buffoon.
When The Big O goes all Times-Picayune, it'll be a sadness ... but the damage was done some time ago.
1:57 p.m.
Nov 1, '12
So, I'm sure I speak for many readers here at my utmost dismay that Jack was poached away by the (shudder) Sacramento Bee …