Neil Goldschmidt admitted to sexual relations with a 14-year-old girl in the 1970s, when he was mayor of Portland, Ore. Under Oregon law, sex with a girl under 16 is considered third-degree rape. He told The Oregonian of Portland about the transgression after he learned that Willamette Week was preparing a story about it, Editor & Publisher reports. Goldschmidt was governor of Oregon from 1987-1991 and served as U.S. transportation secretary under President Carter. Recently, he stepped down as president of the Oregon Board of Higher Education, citing health problems.
Consumer magazines experienced their 11th consecutive month of ad page erosion, a pattern that could make 2004 the third straight year of declining magazine ad volume. According to estimates released last week by the Publishers Information Bureau, the magazine business once again ran in place during April, with ad pages down 0.5 percent against the same period in 2003 even though revenue jumped 6.8 percent. For the first four months of 2004, pages have declined 1.7 percent and revenue has grown 6.5 percent.
At the May 3 start of the Orange County, California, trial of three teenage boys accused of gang-raping an unconscious minor, a defense attorney made a startling assertion: the alleged victim enticed the "sweet," "caring," "kind" defendants into a sexual frenzy and then, while faking unconsciousness, sexually assaulted them. At one point, the attorney, Joseph G. Cavallo, blurted out to the jury, "Why isn’t she being charged with this crime?" R. Scott Moxley reports on the trial for OC Weekly.
Each day tobacco accounts for the deaths of roughly 1,200 Americans, making it a bigger killer than alcohol, AIDS, car crashes, illegal drugs, murders and suicides combined. At the same time, the American Legacy Foundation, the group charged with educating the public about the dangers of smoking, is seeing its annual budget shrink by $20-$25 million each year, Seth McM. Donlin reports in Boston's Weekly Dig. That's because independent cigarette brands are gaining market share, diminishing the total the big four tobacco companies must pay to fund an anti-smoking campaign under the 1998 tobacco settlement with 46 states.
It turns out that Arnold Schwarzenegger views being governor of California as just another movie promotion: Give the press five minutes, tell them what the questions will be about, and move on. The press isn't any too happy about it, Jeff Kearns reports in Sacramento News & Review.
The Pink Pistols is the first national gun club for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community, but it doesn't discriminate on the basis of sexual preference. About 20 percent of the members of the club's Northeast Ohio chapter are straight. Jimi Izrael reports on the national group that took its name from a 2000 Salon.com essay calling on gays and lesbians to arm themselves against hate crimes.
At its upfront presentation tonight, MTV Networks is expected to reveal new research showing that it's the prime beneficiary of the falling numbers of adults 18-34 at most of the broadcast networks. MTV Networks saw its 18-34 delivery jump 12 percent in the fourth quarter of last year compared to the same period a year earlier--the highest of only two networks that had double-digit gains in gross ratings points in the period.
In a cover story for The Boston Phoenix, contributors Harvey A. Silvergate and Carl Takei examine the history of the Bush administration's efforts to classify a wider range of government documents. According to the authors, even before the introduction of the Patriot Act, the administration was working to reduce public access permitted by the Freedom of Information Act while, at the same time, declassifying selected documents from the Clinton administration in an effort to embarrass the former president. Now, they claim, under the umbrella of national security, the rise of governmental secrecy is adversely affecting not only the 4th Estate, but basic First Amendment rights and Civil Liberties.
Pop-up and pop-under ads should not display more than once during a user's visit to an individual Web site, according to new Web advertising guidelines issued by the Interactive Advertising Bureau. The announcement was one of a set of new guidelines released just before the IAB opened its national Leadership Forum meeting in New York City today. Other suggested guidelines deal with labeling and sizing.
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