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on Black and White and Googled All Over

I agree with you on many of your points. There is a sense of connection I feel with the city of Portland when I read "The Portland Mercury," and "Willamette Weekly."

They cover things I want to hear about locally; from restaurants, places to go, outlandish local groups/organizations, and economic/political/environmental stuff that has great local importance and impact.

While newspapers that cover a broad base of things (the oregonian, seattle post intelligencer) may be dying, I think newspapers like "The Portland Mercury" will last on as a classic way of informing/connecting local communities.

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on Black and White and Googled All Over

In response to your negative comments about the Oregonian, I may agree they are not the best newspaper around, but they play their role well in our city. They found it more prominent to showcase a grand scaled, high interest story to our local community as opposed to the inauguration (they still covered it), because as the comment 2 above yours says, most of news coverage is accessed online. A new wave of the future as I it appears, local papers cover local things, large news sites cover the main events of the country/world.

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