Why is there a photo of Breitbart on the front page of the Friday Oregonian newspaper?

[grasswire]

How could a dirty trickster and propagandist be important enough for two column inches on the front page and a jump to page A-4 where his death gets nearly 30 inches, in the form of a story from the L.A. Times.

What's the coverage of Brietbart's death like in your locality?

Can you fathom why all the ink was used on him? Not like he's Lee Atwater, fer gawd's sake.

[Suich]

1. "Andrew Breitbart: provocateur, controversial political warrior"

Seattle Times, Friday March 2, 2012, top half of page 2, 4 columns.

It was from the Washing Post and was well-written by one of my favorites, Chris Cillizza!

Who wrote the article in The Oregonian?

[grasswire]

2. LA Times writers Rong Gong Lin II and Andrew Blankstein

Well, the publisher of the Oregonian is from Orange County. Perhaps that explains something.

[grasswire]

3. that's a lot of ink in the Seattle Times, too

interesting.

[trueblue2007]

4. BECAUSE THE OREGONIAN SUCKS

[DFW]

5. I'm not too bothered

They had big news stories and biographies of Osama Bin laden when he died, too. Breitbart is in good company.

[jmowreader]

6. We aren't covering it.

The Spokesman-Review ran at least an excerpt of the L.A. Times report of his death on A3 the day after Satan called him home, but the Coeur d'Alene Press (where I work) didn't cover it at all. The Spokesman has more national news than we do (we're a local paper; the Spokesman is a regional rag) but we don't stoop to covering slime.

[Iggo]

7. A photo of who now?

[Mendocino]

8. My local paper, TheToledo Blade,

ran a small OB today, no bigger than any local death.

[onenote]

9. He was considered important enough here for dozens of threads and hundreds of posts

Personally, I thought the reaction to his death here was over the top, not because he wasn't a vile, unethical person, but because, quite frankly, the reaction here elevated him to someone with far greater significance than was warranted. I think its fair to say that in terms of name recognition, Breitbart fell below the name of the back up quarterback in every city that has an NFL team.