This thesis examines three newspapers in Corvallis and Salem,
Oregon: the Corvallis Gazette-Times, the Oregonstatesman (Salem)
and the Community Press (Salem). It examines the histories of the
Gazette-Times and the Oregon Statesman as family-owned papers, and their current status as properties of newspaper chains. Based
on interviews of key staff...
Before discussing the American press of the day,
with its freedom and power, a brief historical review
of the development of journalism in its several functions
seems in place.
On May 21, 1998 Kip Kinkel drove to Thurston High
School in Springfield, Oregon. Kinkel killed two
students and wounded another twenty-two students. He
killed his parents the day before. The shootings at
Thurston High School came on the heels of a number of
prominent school shootings and Kip Kinkel...
This dissertation is concerned with the synagogue-affiliated
Jews of Portland, Oregon. Employing an elaborate questionnaire
this writer examined the ritual practices (home and synagogue) and
traditional beliefs of Judaism as practiced or accepted by the Orthodox,
Conservative, and Reform Jews of Portland and thereby attempted
to reach a conclusion whether...
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