Why Is the Portland Newspaper Is Running So Many Stories on Marijuana?

September 25, 2015
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Every week, without fail, reader Dick Thomas sends me a detailed four- or five-page memo critiquing our coverage of marijuana in The Oregonian and on OregonLive.

And I mean detailed.

He breaks it down by the day – even when we don’t write about the topic. His zingers, I’ll admit, occasionally make me laugh out loud.

“What are you people smoking down there?” he asked in an early email.
Or consider this entry from Sunday, Sept. 13: “Struck by a rare attack of reason, The Oregonian ran a 20-page front section with only one story about marijuana.”

Thomas, a retired journalist, usually signs off with an updated tally of our coverage. He started tracking this just before Oregon’s new law took effect in July, when he astutely noticed a surge in stories about legal cannabis. [Read more in the Portland Oregonian]

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