Comments on Covering Seattle
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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!
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.
Keep up the childish and insecure attacks on the competition! It gives you tons of credibility!
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?
@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.
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!!
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.
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.
Barrista with two rs comes up in dictionary.com
@10 Also see: http://www.seattlest.com/archives/2007/02/15/altfeud_seattle_weekly_eats_strangers_lunch_cover_art.php
Seattlest wins every time.
#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.
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...
-- this has been fun and my morning soy vanilla latte tastes so much better while reading slog.
A-Train: you the man
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.
Isn't The Stranger owned by the Chicago weekly?
Nope, Stranger is independent and locally owned.
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?
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.
Well, I guess the Stranger is not locally owned then. Ruxton has ties to New Times also.
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.
Apologies for the redundancies throughout my last post.
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.
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?
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?
both line the bottoms of bird cages quite well.
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