Great job, the MSM is looking to the blogs for sources... this is a GOOD THING, no?

Is that Intern still giving you all grief... isn't there some coffee needing making or papers that need sorting...

Trying to get news reading MSM is worse than swimming in a septic tank.

This post is absolutely absurd. If the showdown were reversed tit for tat - the PI naming each story they broke that was later covered by The Stranger - the list would be longer than a cell block's rap sheet.

Get off your Shetland pony, Erica. Yours is a weekly alternative newspaper; the PI is a widely distributed daily.

right pots... cause we're not reading the stranger blog or anything .. not a daily updated and widely read source of information .. not at all.

erica,

you must be excited about your impending graduation from high school.

I read all news media.

If a list were made of all the stories in the PI that NEVER get a single mention in th Stranger ---- well that is the list to keep focused on.

News per se is a vast and multi layered concept - mainstream dailies still track on many hundreds of stories per week that are not mentioned anywhere else.

Sorry, Erica.

But getting there first is a good feeling for reporters from any media.

And when it comes to ads to copy ratio - the Stranger sets a new record for ads. Somebody is buying a very fancy condo somewhere.

I could be missing something, but I don't get the April 27/ May 3 example. Hector Castro also covered the testimony at that police accountability hearing the same day that you did on Slog, on April 19.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/267205_policemeet19.html

His article published that day, before the Stranger came out in print, included a brief mention of legislation proposed by Licata, which he elaborated upon in the May 3 coverage you cite.

Where's the evidence that you either scooped him or that he took his cues from your reporting?

I wrote about Licata's legislation (which had not yet been discussed in a public meeting) too - not just the testimony. There's a difference between reporting on what happened at the meeting and giving the legislative context.

Dear Seattle98104,

You appear to have blown your last synapse. Perhaps when you sober up, you could re-read my post and reply with a relevant comment.

For the fun of shooting it down, I'll repond to your non sequitur. Sure, Slog has a fair readership, but despite their popularity with some folks blog readers are thin sliver of news consumers. Putting the Slog on par with the entire PI is preposterous.

That said, I read Slog and love it. Thanks, Mr. Keck!

Cheers n' smack,
Pots and Kettles

I guess I still don't see the big deal.

Hector published an article Wednesday after Licata introduced legislation the day before. The innuendo from your Slog post is that the PI was either getting its story ideas from the Stranger or was being scooped by the Stranger. Are you saying, in this case, that it was because of your reporting that Hector covered the issue, and not because of the council hearing? Or that you beat him to the punch, that he should have cited you, or that the hearing didn't provide any new information?

It's The Stranger's inferiority complex that keeps you guys pointing out items that you reported first, right? It's ok, we know you're the Little Paper That Could, and you don't need to prove yourselves to us.

blog readers a slim sliver of news consumers? not pushers of real news to the msm?

colbert?

this "blogosphere" must fit on a pinhead.

Guys, I think her point is that a weekly run by maybe a dozen people actually beat a major newspaper to the punch 4 times, which is 4 times more than they should. It's a statement that either a) the PI's slacking, b) maybe the Stranger does a good job on reporting on events in real time or c) both.