Paul Linnman

He had a whale of a career, didn’t he. Like many of my guests, Paul Linnman got his foot in the door of Portland television with hard work on the ground floor. In Paul’s case, he was a student at PSU, sports editor at the campus newspaper, while editing film at KATU at night. It was there, in the turbulent 60s, that he realized the power of journalism and the truth in storytelling. And man does he have stories-- the best in this podcast has nothing to do with a whale and explosive overkill. It’s driving piano virtuoso, Van Cliburn, to and from a concert in Eugene- with City Commissioner Mildred Schwab. And then there is the good news/bad news when you get replaced by Oprah. Paul has done it all in Portland TV, print, and radio. And I learned we have at least this in common-- we were both cussed out by a newspaper columnist, and not the same one.