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Thursday, August 18, 2005

Weekly Tits vs. Stranger Porn

Posted by on August 18 at 11:47 AM

Mike Lewis is all over the big “Stranger blocked from Weekly’s website” story today. Terry Coe at the Weekly is sticking to his story: The Stranger was spamming our classified advertisers! Revealingly, Coe let slip just how many classified advertisers Seattle Weekly currently has: “Several, at least four.”

One other note about this scintillating scandal: Some readers took me to task for making fun of the Weekly’s porn site.

Isn’t the Stranger pro-porn? Don’t we love tits? Aren’t we hosting an amateur porn contest this weekend? Don’t we also run a similar dirty, dirty, dirty website?

Yes, yes, yes, and yes.

We’re not making fun of the Weekly for slapping tits up on a website, but for being such hypocrites about it. We admit that NaughtyNW.com is our site; the Weekly, as Sandeep Kaushik wrote in the story I linked to yesterday, attempted to hide their association with their ta-ta-heavy knock-off of NaughtyNW.com. The Weekly is squeamish about sexthey’re conflicted about their escort ads, say, in a way that the tit fans at The Stranger are not.

That’s why it was fun to link to all the Southern California rack those old hippies at Seattle Weekly slapped up their website.

Now back to our regularly programmed blogging…