Slog - Comments on Covering Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle I know that there are people who believe that we shouldn't mock Seattle Weekly on the Slog, and to those people now, I say: I am not going to ask this question to mock Seattle Weekly. I am genuinely curious. (ahem) Dear Seattle Weekly, Why did you put Jaime Hernandez artwork on your cover this week? There was a great deal of excitement about The Hernandez Brothers at The Fantagraphics Store last week. I went to the panel discussion on Sunday--I couldn't make the party on Saturday night--but by all accounts, both were a lot of fun. It seems like... Copyright 2008 Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:34:09 -0800 Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:24:54 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by hilda zzzzzzz
how very dreary, and wasting bandwidth

]]> hilda http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c633693 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c633693 Media Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:48:25 -0800 Comment by ccb Awesome post! Please more just like it. Seriously, I can't stop laughing! I live for this stuff, I really do. Please, I'd like to be informed of every typo in the Seattle Weekly. It's just so fascinating and hilarious and makes me feel so good!

]]> ccb http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c633796 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c633796 Media Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:48:48 -0800 Comment by a reader of both... I'm not calling it a rip-off or anything like that but The Stranger has been using that "ignoring _____ since _____" for so, so, so long and it wasn't that funny to begin with. Seattle Weekly, please stop.

]]> a reader of both... http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c633885 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c633885 Media Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:42:36 -0800 Comment by Mardy Bum Keep up the childish and insecure attacks on the competition! It gives you tons of credibility!

]]> Mardy Bum http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c633912 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c633912 Media Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:09:31 -0800 Comment by j SW sucks so lay it on. Capitol Hill Times is cool so lay off.

]]> j http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c633934 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c633934 Media Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:28:37 -0800 Comment by Gomez Paul,
You do realize their paper is run by a media conglomerate's satellite office in the midwest, which is run by people who have never been to nor set foot in Seattle? And you're surprised that their artwork/writing is out of touch?

]]> Gomez http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c633969 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c633969 Media Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:07:13 -0800 Comment by Paul Constant @5: I'm awfully fond of Capitol Hill Times--the more small neighborhood papers, the better, I say--but I'm not fond of front-page, large-font typos at all.


@2: This isn't a typo. This is a cover pushing an event that happened last week. And a really, painfully stupid books column name.


@1: I'll put the bandwidth back when I'm done using it.


And to my old friend Gomez: I realize it, you realize it, but it still inspires gasps of incredulity from me every week. Especially this week.

]]> Paul Constant http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c633981 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c633981 Media Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:26:03 -0800 Comment by squirrel Gomez is right. Reading the seattle weekly for anything new is like going to WalMart for the latest fashion. People that read the weekly are old & trying to be hip. It's like the creepy old men that buy fast cars & look at cute young girls trying to get in their pants!!

]]> squirrel http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c633992 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c633992 Media Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:33:04 -0800 Comment by Levislade Not to pile on, but I just noticed this this morning, and it fits very well with squirrel's comment about "anything new":

When you go to their music page and click "notable shows," (the link is even http://www.seattleweekly.com/music/notableshows/mostrecent/) it takes you to that page from January 24th.

]]> Levislade http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634024 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634024 Media Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:43:15 -0800 Comment by uhm This post on the Fantagraphics blog indicates that the Stranger had a L&R cover planned itself this week, but it got bumped for Anna Nicole.

]]> uhm http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634035 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634035 Media Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:53:44 -0800 Comment by Tiz Barrista with two rs comes up in dictionary.com

]]> Tiz http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634040 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634040 Media Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:56:19 -0800 Comment by kasa @10 Also see: http://www.seattlest.com/archives/2007/02/15/altfeud_seattle_weekly_eats_strangers_lunch_cover_art.php

Seattlest wins every time.

]]> kasa http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634059 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634059 Media Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:15:50 -0800 Comment by A-Train #10:
We were considering an L&R/Fantagraphics cover, but since we couldn't get it on there the week before the show started (the V-day issue), and because we have a soft spot for Jim Blanchard's fine illustrations of recently deceased celebrities, we went in a different direction.

]]> A-Train http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634069 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634069 Media Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:25:18 -0800 Comment by A-Train Also, Jim is a Fantagraphics-related artist who has a show coming up in early March, as we mentioned on page 5 of this issue. That's all. You may now return to your feud, already in progress...

]]> A-Train http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634084 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634084 Media Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:42:08 -0800 Comment by Aaro)))n Edge -- this has been fun and my morning soy vanilla latte tastes so much better while reading slog.

A-Train: you the man

]]> Aaro)))n Edge http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634098 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634098 Media Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:55:57 -0800 Comment by matthew fisher wilder Paul,

It's not that people are sick of hearing you guys mock Seattle Weekly. It's just that we're sick of you guys just plain giving a shit altogether.

Big difference.

Seattle Weekly is syndicated landfill.

Ignore it.

]]> matthew fisher wilder http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634136 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634136 Media Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:25:07 -0800 Comment by Nick Isn't The Stranger owned by the Chicago weekly?

]]> Nick http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634148 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634148 Media Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:49:00 -0800 Comment by rubyred Nope, Stranger is independent and locally owned.

]]> rubyred http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634158 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634158 Media Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:57:29 -0800 Comment by Lil' Hmmm, striaght from your masthead... doesn't look to local to me?

NATIONAL ADVERTISING
The Ruxton Group (888)2RUXTON/ New York, Detroit, Chicago, Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles

Chicago again?

Your also affiliated with

http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Home

Portland so there should be an owner outside somewhere?

]]> Lil' http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634183 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634183 Media Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:20:33 -0800 Comment by factz The Chicago Reader has a minority share. The rest (including the Mercury) is local. National advertising is a service provided by Ruxton; they don't own anything.

]]> factz http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634200 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634200 Media Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:29:34 -0800 Comment by matt Well, I guess the Stranger is not locally owned then. Ruxton has ties to New Times also.

]]> matt http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634222 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634222 Media Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:48:17 -0800 Comment by matthew fisher wilder Dan's column has appeared in Village Voice Media papers too.

It's all a big Roadrunner/Wile E. Coyote clock-in/whine/chase/gripe/drama/lolz/clock-out day to day funded by a pervy clientele who like sex ads.

]]> matthew fisher wilder http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634231 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634231 Media Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:03:31 -0800 Comment by matthew fisher wilder Apologies for the redundancies throughout my last post.

]]> matthew fisher wilder http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634232 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634232 Media Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:04:30 -0800 Comment by Gomez Point taken, Paul. Sometimes, when all else fails, I'll pick up their rag, and what I read sometimes just makes my eyes want to bleed.

]]> Gomez http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634243 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634243 Media Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:30:22 -0800 Comment by J.R. Dear Nick, Matt and Lil'

The Stranger's majority ownership is all local folks, so therefore the paper is considered to be locally owned. For example, while the Knight-Ridder chain owns 49 percent of the Seattle Times, the local Blethen family owns the rest, so it's considered a locally-owned publication as well.

PS: Do you all simply enjoy your jobs at the Seattle Weekly, or did management order you to write these posts?

]]> J.R. http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634246 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634246 Media Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:32:25 -0800 Comment by Nick Actually, I work for a local magazine. I just read both and notice the major differences. Not to your favor though.

From what I hear, many of your staff members are going to the Seattle Weekly. Do you have a music editor yet or do you still have freelance writers ?

PS - It is fun writing to The Stranger staff. How does it feel writing to each other all day?

]]> Nick http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634294 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634294 Media Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:25:20 -0800 Comment by bobcat both line the bottoms of bird cages quite well.

]]> bobcat http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634347 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/covering_seattle#c634347 Media Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:24:54 -0800