Our Oregon Slams KGW For "Bogus" Anti-Tax Story

Portland Mercury:

Are Oregonians staging an "exodus" to Clark County to avoid paying the new taxes levied under last year's Measure 66 and 67? That's what KGW says, in a report apparently based entirely on a blog post by an Oregon anti-tax group. The sponsors of last year's measures, Our Oregon, ripped into KGW's reporting, calling the story "astonishingly bad, one-sided, and inaccurate." Their biggest beef? That KGW never bothered to call them, any of the legislators who sponsored the tax measures, or any other progressive group they know of that could have provided a counter-point. "It's one of two things—it's either lazy reporting or it's ideologically driven," says Our Oregon's Scott Moore. "The effect is the same. They put out a one-sided inaccurate story that just isn't true. " KGW has changed the story, switching the headline from "More Oregonians Moving to WA for Tax Relief" to the much less certain, "Activist says Oregonians moving to WA for tax relief." Here's a screenshot of the original story that Moore took. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

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