Those of you who are long-time Oregonians know that former Governor Tom McCall was the first reporter here at KGW Northwest NewsChannel 8. As a reporter here in the 1950s and 60s, he was the first person to dramatize the pollution problems in the Willamette River. He then went on to become governor and one of the most important people in Oregon history.
For the past six years, we have been honoring a journalist in our news room with ...
On this blog you will read a piece by our reporter Vince Patton about the two stories he produced this week about the threat of a terrorist attack here in Portland. Vince's stories focused on two what-ifs. What if terrorists smuggled enriched uranium across one of our borders? What if they used that material to detonate a nuclear bomb in downtown Portland?
Many viewers contacted us with concerns about showing terrorists how to do this...
We struck a nerve with viewers this week in our stories about holes in homeland security's efforts to keep nuclear weapons out of the country. Three people, two of them anonymous, complained the stories were simple sensationalism during a ratings month.
I'd like to address that and give you some background behind these reports.
When my managers approached me and asked me to be the reporter on this project my first reaction w...
