December 17, 2003
Portland Police Bureau And KATU Respond To Alleged 'Hate Crime' Of Local Website
Today's Willamette Week catches up to the battle between KATU and the Moynihan Institute over the latter's juvenile and smeary parody of reporter Anna Song's coverage of the Laurelhurst Park dog poisonings.
There's nothing reported that wasn't already covered here (although I can't point readers to that coverage until our regular server, and therefore our archives, are back online), except for this bit:
Portland Police spokeswoman Sgt. Cheryl Robinson, however, told WW that "to my knowledge we are not investigating a hate crime with KATU." What's more, she said, "there's nothing that would articulate that as a hate crime." (The FBI wouldn't comment.)
Rausch, meanwhile, has softened his claims a bit, saying, "We are exploring all of our legal options." But, Rausch toldWW, he's still "appalled" at Moynihan's treatment of Song.
For what it's worth, Robinson and Rausch both either ignored my own inquiries into this matter back when I reported on it, or they got around to it only after my server got knocked offline and this site's email was down for a bit. Having seen this sort of dynamic before, however, my cynicism tends towards the assumption that I was simply snubbed.
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The One True b!X on 17 Dec 2003
Incidentally, and for what it's worth, Robinson has also failed to respond to my email about my server outage, which might have caused PPB messages to media to bounce back from me for a few days, and requesting that I be put back on the list if I had been removed during the outage.