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Reporter @BlairStenvick wrote about brutal gay bashing in downtown Portland in '16. I emailed to ask how she independently verified story. She ignored me. I inquired again & she said: "I’m not interested in discussing this with you." @alex_zee, do you know?portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2019/… 
Response from the news editor of @portlandmercury when I asked what steps their reporter took to independently verify an unreported claim of a brutal, vicious gay bashing in downtown Portland that had witnesses all around.
Transparency is paramount in media ethics. That @portlandmercury news editor would respond this way when asked for verification process is wrong. I could find no police, media, witness reports supporting story of brutal gay bashing in downtown PDX. @WmSteveHumphrey, do you know?
I asked for transparency because @portlandmercury news editor @alex_zee previously pushed a hate hoax story. Last Oct. she helped sic a mob on an innocent Portland bicyclist who was falsely accused of calling the cops on an improperly parked black couple. quillette.com/2018/11/04/a-r…
