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On September 28, 2008, the paper distributed a DVD of Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West as an advertising supplement for that day's edition, two weeks after The New York Times, The Charlotte Observer and The Miami Herald had done the same thing.

The Oregonian did so despite Portland mayor Tom Potter's personal request that publisher Fred Stickel not distribute it because the " tenor of the video contributes towards a climate of distrust towards Muslims ", and because the paper's willingness to distribute the DVD bestows upon it " an impression of objectivity and legitimacy it does not deserve.

" Stickel cited " freedom of speech ", and an " obligation to keep our advertising columns as open as possible " as reasons for not rejecting the DVD.