Oregon Experience

Journalist Russel Sandler on How News Coverage Has Changed

Clip: Season 7 Episode 703 | 29s

Journalist Russel Sadler notes that in McCall’s time, years before the internet and hundred-channel cable TV, most people watched the local evening news on television. Unlike today, most Oregon TV stations, radio stations and newspapers kept reporters and cameramen in Salem. And Tom McCall kept them well-supplied with material