Back in the day when I was a young lad Oregon had two print
newspapers with state wide distribution--The Oregonian and the Oregon
Journal. The Oregonian was a morning newspaper. It had an early edition
that was mostly printed for distribution in Eastern Oregon and busy
newsstands in Portland. There was a later edition that had wider
distribution. The Oregon Journal came out in the afternoon. My brother
had a route delivering the Oregonian because he didn't mind getting up
and delivering his papers in the dark.

This was back in the day when even small towns got the Saturday
Evening Post on Saturday.

Being a dumbass I had a route delivering the Oregon Journal. I
should have realized something was wrong because my brother was
delivering in the most affluent part of town, while I was delivering in
one of the less affluent neighborhoods. Which at that time was paradoxically--Nye Beach. It had been an affluent neighborhood and is
again now, but back in the day, those days were long gone.

The Oregonian was a Republican newspaper. The Oregon Journal was a Democrat newspaper. I didn't realize that until the strike.

http://publichistorypdx.org/2017/01/29/portlands-newspaper-wars-oregonian-became-monopoly/

"PORTLAND’S NEWSPAPER WARS | HOW THE OREGONIAN BECAME A MONOPOLY"

It has to have been one of the world's dumbest strikes. The
technology was changing. They were finally getting rid of the old hot
lead machines. They had to train new operators for the new machinery,
but the old Stereotypers were having none of it. The old hot lead
technology required 4 times more workers. The new people worked at
keyboards that spit out paper tape for the machines to read.

I got to see all of this because I got a free trip to Portland by
adding some small number of new customers to my route. We got to stay
overnight in a downtown hotel, which was a very exotic luxury for me. We
got a tour of the newspaper offices, including the new machinery and a
baseball game with the Portland Beavers. (The stadium has been added to
and remodeled many times since then and is now home to 2 Soccer teams,
male and female.) We also got to spend some time at the long gone
Jantzen Beach Amusement park.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jantzen_Beach_Amusement_Park

I didn't pay any attention to the strike until I started losing customers. Some of my Democrats were also staunch union members. Hey, I
was a kid. I was only there for the money. My brother didn't lose any
customers over the strike and might have gained a few.

So, eventually, the Oregonian became the epitome of "main stream
media" in Oregon and eventually that morphed into Oregon Live. Which is essentially what's left of the Oregonian newspaper. It's still very
Republican. And like the media everywhere they enjoy sensational
headlines and sensational stories, because that draws the all important eyeballs. They generally get their facts straight, but not always. And
watch out for that slant.

It's always a relief when stuff is wandering around in my head and
I get it written down. That's why I'm crazy enough to post for almost no
one. It's really all about me. <laughing at myself> If there are any
questions about today's lesson I might try to answer them. Thanks for
reading all the way to the bottom.

TB

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