Your Mid-Week Experiment

"This story is nuts"

Thanks to everyone who has been emailing the editor-in-chief of The Oregonian to ask that they atone for their mistreatment of my father, the subject of last weekend’s essay. Long story short, my dad wrote a ton of columns questioning the state’s theory that the head of prisons was killed by a car burglar and not because he was about to disclose a mess of corruption in Salem. The Governor attacked my dad, as did his own paper. If you listened to his popular podcast, Murder in Oregon, you know the end of this story. If you can believe it, the editor-in-chief now defends her paper by saying that they published all his columns, so they couldn’t have attacked him.

Travis Swicegood @tswicegood

This story is nuts. I kept reading it waiting for some plot twist and it to be an announcement for a new fiction book by @JasStanford, but it’s even crazier than that. https://t.co/zPgnXcCTwu

Jason Stanford @JasStanford

So, here's the thing about my dad. https://t.co/Y76nGwnX11

Brian Wagner @BrianBWagner

@JasStanford well I was today years old when I made the connection between you and the (since I'm just a late-stage millennial) Portland Tribune's Phil Stanford

“Objectivity wars, and the future of media trust” (CJR)

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I dropped out of The Handmaid’s Tale after season three. Who wants to see June so constantly mistreated? There is redemption midway through season four, though, and season five gets super interesting.

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