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Satirizing duties, charm offensive, important memo. Media digest Oct. 20, 2010.

Public affairs:

  • Democracy: Emerald reporter Ian Geronimo looks into the soul of the County Commission races on this year’s ballot and finds only pain. (Emerald)
  • Unpopular initiatives: The effort to beat the UO’s riverfront development continues with efforts to drag Richard Lariviere before the UO Senate. (Emerald)
  • Plants: The Emerald with a feature on an OSU program in Eugene.
  • Literature: A novelist and her translator will be on campus Thursday* for a reading. (Ethos Magazine**)
  • The obese: The U.S. government is trying to move part of nutrition labels to the front of food packages. (Emerald)
  • Honesty news: The Oregonian with what appears to be a slightly harsh ruling of “false” on a Congressional candidate’s claims regarding his rival.

Opinion:

  • UO Matters readers get deep on Richard Lariviere’s overtime policy and subsequent scolding. Of all the things in this digest, this one is worth reading.
  • The Guard’s Editorial Board says Lariviere’s decision to give overtime to employees on furloughs was stupid but well intentioned.
  • UO Matters also has praise for the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
  • Emerald columnist Matt Tellam goes to meetings for the College Democrat and Republican parties and finds that, surprise surprise, they are boring and devoid of intellectual substance.
  • Journalism student Becky Metrick pinch-hits an Emerald column about a girl who’s been through serious shit.
  • The Emerald Editorial Board has taken over satirizing duties for the moment, and writes about students’ desire to sleep, frolic, and possibly have sex with one another.
  • Editorials: An EWEB employee was sexually assaulted three times by her co-workers, and EWEB allegedly did nothing to stop it, which the Guard’s editors say  is emblematic of a larger problem.
  • Letters: The Guard’s mailbag is surprisingly nearly free from suspiciously on-message, pro-candidate missives purportedly written by everyday citizens all by themselves. Instead, it contains attacks on the newspaper’s endorsements and a thank-you note to the police.
Sports:
  • In case you thought reading the sports section of local papers every day for two weeks had changed my opinion on the subject, I still believe this video contains all the information you need to know about sports. If anything, reading the sports section has emboldened this belief.
  • The Guard’s George Schroeder says Oregon Football now needs a charm offensive to go along with its on-field ones. (Register-Guard)
  • Oregon Basketball (W) has seen some players graduate. Other players have matriculated. This makes people excited. Simultaneously it makes them nervous. (Emerald)
  • The Emerald also has pen-sketches of five new Oregon Basketball (W) players. (Emerald)
  • The Emerald profiles Oregon Football player Josh Huff. (Emerald)
  • Emerald sports-hack Patrick Malee says he doubted Oregon Basketball (M) coach Dana Altman, but he’s willing to admit he was wrong. (Emerald)
  • Emerald freelance sports-hack Isaac Rosenthal with urgent notice about an important memo Oregon Hockey may have missed. It seems Oregon Hockey throttled the Hated Cougs, Hated Bruins and Hated Eags. (Emerald)
  • The UO athletic director is in Medford and they’re a bit starstruck. (Mail Tribune)
* I think
** I should note that I also do occasional work, in theory, for Ethos. Full disclosure, etc.

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