Slog - Comments on Newsflash: Activism Isn't Just for Smelly Hippies Anymore http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale Seattle Times Executive Editor Dave Boardman sent out another e-mail addressing the newsroom cheer that greeted word of Karl Rove's resignation. You can read the whole thing at Editor & Publisher, but there's one line in particular I found curious—especially given The Seattle Times claim on objectivity. I've bolded the line in the excerpt below: I ask you all to leave your personal politics at the front door for one simple reason: A good newsroom is a sacred and magical place in which we can and should test every assumption, challenge each other's thinking, ask the fundamental questions those in... Copyright 2008 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:26:20 -0800 Sat, 18 Aug 2007 10:27:48 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Jumpsuit Have you ever heard of how lame bold can be? Make your point and let your readers figure out what's important. Or go back to school.

]]> Jumpsuit http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784367 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784367 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:42:05 -0800 Comment by Chambers McSween; Layman, Homie, Factotum, Trucker Oh, so you get it then? Well good, that's good.

You probably should talk to Mudede though, Jumpsuit. Have him explain narrative to you.

So, how about you just pull that ripchord then? We already know how your eager freefall into legalism ends otherwise.

]]> Chambers McSween; Layman, Homie, Factotum, Trucker http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784383 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784383 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:11:22 -0800 Comment by Jumpsuit I'm sorry that I don't understand your completely self-referential idiom. Please take care not to choke on your own cream.

]]> Jumpsuit http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784384 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784384 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:26:27 -0800 Comment by Mike of Renton Maybe he should try to remember to ... oh I don't know... maybe last year when his own editorial board was pushing so hard to get the estate tax repealed?

]]> Mike of Renton http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784394 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784394 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:54:02 -0800 Comment by Joshua H Aw. Poor Minutemen. I sincerely hope that Boardman's rash comments won't send them into too much of a malaise. It'd be sad to think of them sulking at home instead of, say, shooting people. Maybe Focus on the Family will be too mopey to fight against civil rights, as well. Gosh darn that Boardman!

]]> Joshua H http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784397 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784397 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:56:33 -0800 Comment by daytrpr Boardman probably meant social service work that was actually trying to help people.

]]> daytrpr http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784441 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784441 Media Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:46:32 -0800 Comment by catalina vel-duray Thank GOD my boss doesn't send out boring, wordy emails like that one. At least no one has ever accused City Light of being "a sacred and magical place"

]]> catalina vel-duray http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784448 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784448 Media Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:23:25 -0800 Comment by JessB Jumpsuit: you're an idiot.

]]> JessB http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784459 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784459 Media Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:16:15 -0800 Comment by SDA in SEA Chortle. I have thought many things about the Seattle Times over the years, and "sacred and magical" was never on the list.

]]> SDA in SEA http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784462 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784462 Media Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:34:08 -0800 Comment by Garrett jumpsuit- learning key phrases to bold is essential on-the-job skill training.

soon i'll have a pic to share of the bright scary view of my rock hauling yesterday. (un)fortunately, my card reader is giving me fitz of depression. TGIT, it is Miller Time.

]]> Garrett http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784476 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784476 Media Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:09:32 -0800 Comment by It's Mark Mitchell @7 But the neon gas flame that used to be outside PSE on Mercer (not 100% positive on that location) was sacred and magical, for sure.

]]> It's Mark Mitchell http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784480 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784480 Media Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:11:07 -0800 Comment by Larry Kramer and Martin Luther King Who are you calling smelly hippies, Josh?

]]> Larry Kramer and Martin Luther King http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784487 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784487 Media Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:24:13 -0800 Comment by Original Andrew Well, the things that rational, sane people would consider to be downright nasty, like destroying the environment as well as anyone who's non-heterosexual, non-white and/or non-Republican, are considered "good" by right-wing "activists."

Even the most horrible, evil people consider themselves heroes in their internal monologue.

]]> Original Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784518 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784518 Media Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:30:22 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi Faith-based initiatives are a bone to moderates who still want government money spent on helping the needy and a bone to religious voters who want to see government money flowing into their church's coffers. So much for small government.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784526 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784526 Media Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:52:31 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle He's right. Republicants are drawn not by doing social good and activism, but by greed and fear.

It's all they have.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784629 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784629 Media Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:02:30 -0800 Comment by Josh Feit @15,
Perhaps Will. But that's an opinion. Boardman's not supposed to have those.

]]> Josh Feit http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784647 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784647 Media Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:09:56 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Well, that's your opinion.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784902 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c784902 Media Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:44:07 -0800 Comment by Chris To all of you enlightened and tolerant progressives who are posting at this site - I have never read such bigoted, small minded hate speech in my life.

Sounds like anyone who dares point out the truth about the Left leaning bias in new rooms is a sellout to the White Male, Heterosexual, Christian oppressors.

Guess if you are among the extreme 5% of the far Left, then the even the mostly moderate Leftists who run the news rooms across the country seem like Right-Wing Nazis.

]]> Chris http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c785212 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c785212 Media Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:00:14 -0800 Comment by Ron Josh,
What's your response to Postman's assertion that you've doing a bad job on this?

]]> Ron http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c785902 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/david_boardmans_subjective_rationale#c785902 Media Sat, 18 Aug 2007 10:27:48 -0800