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ican soldiers were appearing on
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people, mainly white, left for
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the suburbs, choking off the city
the nightly news. That did not
go well.”
in the middle. The city stayed
The military learned its les-
mostly black,” he explained.
son, and, with the 2003 U.S. in-
“The surrounding counties
vasion of Iraq, journalists were
needed revenue. So they found
embedded with the military,
their revenue by charging, with
restricted from allowing dead
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Ferguson was event cov- porting,” he said. But during the
debtors jail.”
erage, but it was also institu- Iraq War, “the coverage was not
These and other tensions
tional coverage, Duara said. It so much about an event. It was
escalated for years, Duara said.
required “the kind of beat work, about an institution.”
And when Michael Brown was
“The institution was called
the emotional distance, to cover
shot, they exploded.
the ideas, while simultaneously the ‘coalition government,’ and
The Ferguson story lent itself
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it was doing its mightiest, as PR
covering the events.”
not just to copious coverage but
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numerous news angles — the Audience members watch footage of the Ferguson, Missouri, demonstrations during the
nalists of some kind have long of itself,” he said, adding that
race angle, the class angle, the Columbia Forum presentation by Nigel Duara.
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played a role.
civil rights angle, the civil liber-
When the Greek historian reporting: We’re going to be
ties angle, the police-vs.-protest- — put print journalists at a dis- and police reports.
they did in Ferguson. And each
advantage compared to, say,
ers angle.
But increasingly, “we’ve journalist will only be able to and philosopher Thucydides — further controlled. We’re going
“CNN, FOX and Infowars broadcast journalists and photo- moved away from reporting on capture a fragment of a larger ZKRP'XDUDFDOOHGWKH¿UVWZDU to have more people telling us
correspondent — “covered” the more things and what to do. It’ll
are all going to grab a different journalists, according to Duara, institutions and moved toward story.
piece of that,” Duara said.
now a reporter at the Los Ange- reporting on events,” he said,
Though many viewers Peloponnesian War between never be Vietnam again.”
And, as in the ancient Indian les Times.
But the Internet, smart-
“and there are consequences to watching coverage on TV and Athens and Sparta in the Fifth
story of blind men touching a
In print media, reporters can that decision.”
the Internet often saw lines of Century B.C., he, like the report- phones and social media, like
part of an elephant — in which convey background and explain
For instance, it means that protesters facing lines of po- ers who covered Ferguson, tried Facebook and Twitter, have all
one man believes the animal’s abstract, esoteric ideas, “which QHZVFRYHUDJHLVLQÀXHQFHGOHVV lice, “as with every situation, it to create a narrative that attempt- changed how news get reported,
tail is a rope, another believes its is not a luxury that broadcast- by institutions and — especially wasn’t homogeneous,” he said.
ed to “make sense of chaos and distributed and consumed.
side is a rock, a third believes a ers have.” But Ferguson-type if the institution is a business or
“Now events are not just vi-
“There were protesters that death.”
leg is a tree trunk, etc. — none events tend to be so visually D QRQSUR¿W ² SXEOLF UHODWLRQV had been drinking all day; they
Duara illustrated the differ- sual. They are also tactile. They
of the media outlets saw the big compelling that images often departments. Institutions “need ZHUHUHDG\WR¿JKW7KHUHZHUH ence between event coverage are also participatory. You can
picture.
tell the story far better than prose to make good news about them- protesters who had been read- and institutional coverage by hold them in your hands. You
“Nobody sees the elephant, can tell it, he said.
selves. Otherwise, it’s all going ing about civil rights, really, all pointing to the differences be- can interact with them,” he said.
and that includes us in print me-
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In generations past, news to be bad,” he said.
day — seriously, blogging about tween journalism during the
dia,” he said.
centered more on institutional
It also means, of course, that civil rights all day — and came Vietnam War and during the JXVRQ ÀDUH XS SHRSOH FDQ JHW
involved in them from afar, he
coverage of city council meet- coverage depends on events tak- out to actually protest,” he said. Iraq War.
Event coverage
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“The military originally said. “And then we can shame
Stories like Ferguson — full police departments. Reporters lations specialist helping set the came out to break somebody’s thought it was a good idea to the people who make bad jokes
of opportunities for powerful tracked their beats and obtained tone and shape the story, report- head open, and there were po- send reporters with soldiers into about it on Twitter, which has
footage and iconic photographs copies of bills, meeting minutes ers have to do it themselves, like OLFHRI¿FHUVZKRFDPHRXWWKHUH Vietnam,” he said. “And the ef- become a national pastime.”
to preserve order.”
A key to understanding Fer-
guson is to know there were
“countervailing forces of pretty
equal determination,” Duara
said. “Protesters wanted atten-
tion (paid) to a story that they
felt needed to be told, at any
cost, to themselves, the police
or the city,” he said. “And the
police had a standing order to
maintain order at any cost.”
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MEDICARE: Seniors will have to make new choice for plan
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individual and group com-
mercial coverage, in Clatsop
County.
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Advantage plans are offered
by private companies that con-
tract with Medicare to provide
the same items but not neces-
sarily at the same rates. The
plans — which bundle Medi-
care parts A, B and D, and can
offer additional items — es-
sentially replace Medicare for
seniors enrolled in them.
Paulette McCoy, public af-
fairs manager at Providence
Seaside Hospital, said that Re-
gence’s decision to pull the Ad-
vantage plan from the county
will impact hundreds of Provi-
dence patients. “BlueCross was
our most popular (insurance
provider),” she said.
Columbia Memorial Hos-
pital’s administration could not
be reached to provide patient
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Three health insurance
companies in Clatsop County
offer Advantage plans that can
replace Regence: CareOregon
and FamilyCare Health Plans,
which contract with Columbia
Memorial Hospital in Astoria,
and Moda Health, which con-
tracts with Providence Seaside.
Columbia Memorial will
take payment from Moda
Health, but payment amounts
50 percent in their Medicare
premiums next year, while not
receiving a cost-of-living in-
crease in Social Security bene-
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New York Times.
Unless Congress intervenes,
a quirk in federal law that pro-
tects about 70 percent of Medi-
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mium hikes could expose the
Nearly one-third of Medi- remaining 30 percent to “major
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record increases of roughly costs of prescription drugs,
will be larger because the hos-
pital is out of the company’s
network. Providence contracts
with CareOregon but only for
special-needs plans; enrollees
must qualify for both Medi-
care and Medicaid, the federal
health insurance program for
the poor.
Medicare Part B and new med-
ical technology.
Michelle Lewis, community
programs supervisor at North-
west Senior and Disability Ser-
vices, advises soon-to-be-for-
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Advantage Plan to shop care-
fully and to read thoroughly the
replacement plans that interest
them.
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