Willamette Week Kicked Out of Press Conference for Missing Boy
july 2, 2010 03:02 pm
During a press conference held by the family of a missing Oregon boy,
Willamette Week reporter James Pitkin -- who
had earlier reported on the family's troubled history -- was asked to leave for failing to be a "team player." A reporter for the local daily,
The Oregonian, was also escorted out. As
Pitkin noted, the end result was that the two largest papers in Oregon had essentially been sidelined because the family didn't approve of the negative coverage.