Here's what someone wrote over on Oregon Media Insiders. I don't know if it's true or not, but Lynn S. pulled it down, which was annoying. So here's what it said before it got yanked:

Confused? You won't be, after this episode of... The Dumb and The Arrogant.

Earlier tonight, I sat in a dark bar in downtown Portland. I wondered what the heck that cryptic photo contest in WW this week was about. I recalled seeing on here that someone said the car belonged to O reporter Tom Hallman.

Then a man in a grey jacket moved through the room like smoke and told me the following:

The parking spot belongs to Andrew Weiderhorn, who Tom Hallman wrote an award-winning series about (and which was glowing enough to be called a "blowjob" by WW editor Mark Zusman in the pages of AJR back in 2000). The expensive downtown parking spot was being provided free to Tom Hallman, and now that WW revealed the gift, The O is upset, as well it ought to be.

 

check it out:

This ran in The American Journalism Review, back in 2000

http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=555

 

I'm sorry you were annoyed, Michael, but if that wasn't true then it was libel and I don't have the pockets for that. I've talked with WWeek's Hank Stern, who says the original OMI post is accurate, and so I've put it back up. I'm still waiting on comment from the O.

 

So, when will WW break the news?

 

It was broken over at OMI:

http://www.oregonmediainsiders.com/node/1010