Peep show
I see that the O is running more of the juicy details from those Nike employee survey results that inadvertently fell into the O's lap a while back. Executive summary of this week's drop: The surveys said that high-ranking male Nike employees used foul language, hit on lower-ranking female employees, showed them porn images, touched them and kissed them in unwanted ways, and hired hookers on business trips. And nobody would say anything for fear of retaliation.
Sadly, the O is hiding all this behind the Paywall of Pity, which is ironic given all the lawyer power they have vindicating their right to publish what the surveys said. In court, they're hot on "the public's right to know," but in reality, they mean only those members of the public who pay to know. I guess it's always been that way with most of the print media. They get First Amendment protection even though they charge for their service.
Anyway, whether you pay or not, the O is not naming names. They're not that brave.
Can’t agree more. I pay the paywall and feel like the Oregonian is trying to have it both ways. Yes, we send attorneys to court to protect our right to utilize the inadvertent discovery we received but no, we will not utilize that information to give the people of Portland meaningful information and details based on the information we received. This is not the way to operate a city’s flagship newspaper. Or any newspaper.
ReplyDeleteArchive.ph breaks the paywalls. I use it constantly for things I’m interested to read but sources I refuse to pay.
DeleteAs is true in just about all print media trying to make a digital buck, reporters and editors are judged by their ability to generate clicks.
ReplyDeleteWait, where are all the commenters who love to bash the people of Portland as good-for-nothings who think that they should be given whatever they want without having to pay for it?
ReplyDeleteBetween Craigslist killing newspaper classified revenues, retail moving advertising online, and then Facebook and Google taking 80+% of all online advertising revenues, exactly how is any local paper supposed to pay even a skeleton staff to put out a paper, much less pay for lawyers?
Good points, but I think the last straw is no longer doing any real reporting, just being stenographer for the power brokers. Add in extreme bias by writing stuff that is completely false (weapons of mass destruction) and they have dug their own grave.
DeleteCopy the link, go to archive.ph, then paste the link and hit save. Paywall defeated.
ReplyDeleteHow is any of this really news? Is there some celebrity name not being released by the O?
ReplyDeleteThe allegations here sound like a thousand of these cases over the years none of which warranted such attention from the O. I’m trying to remember what company held the gathering at Waverly where there was sex on the fairways. And if we learn the names how exactly does that help us? So we learn some VP of a product line was involved. Then what?
Men behaving unacceptably. This article isn’t going to change that and if the men involved haven’t lost their jobs because of such behavior they will in the current round of layoffs which seems to be heavy on middle age men in highly paid positions.
Amateurs. Bunker sex >>> fairway sex
DeletePaywalling letters to the editor was the last straw for me.
ReplyDeleteAgreed, letters to the editor being paywalled really was the pinnacle.
DeleteTruly the last straw. You should continue not subscribing to show them who’s boss. Probably they should pay YOU to read one of the most-read sections of their product, and one of the only ones that they publish that isn’t readily accessible from 20 other sources. The nerve of those people.
DeleteBoys just wanna have fun, no need to name names...
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