Arts Letter of the Day: Young Frankenstein Edition
posted by on August 24 at 16:22 PM
So this morning I was in Marysville and I stopped for breakfast. There, above the fold, on the front page of The Seattle Times, was a color picture from Young Frankenstein, along with a short article. You may or may not know that critics were free to review the show as of last night, so I shelled out my fifty cents, CASH, to read the review.
First, I flip the whole newspaper package to remove and discard the advertising.
Then I turn to the entertainment section - Tickets or whatever the fuck they call it - and look for the review.
End of story: the fucking review is NOT IN THE PAPER. It’s FUCKING ONLINE ONLY in the edition I bought. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? I just PAID YOU MONEY for your FUCKING PRECIOUS CONTENT and it’s NOT THERE!?
The most disturbing thing is this has made me start to sound like you.
Why buy a paper if the articles are only online?
Sean B
indeed...WHY buy a paper?
paper is morte...
the times is morte...
bien...
Where would Slog be without Times-bashing? Geez ... it's clear. The play ended too late for a printed review, so they used the picture package to draw readers to their online review. They had that posted first thing this morning, about 10 hours before the P-I's.
What was he doing in Marysville anyway? :-P
I don't think the Stranger is bashing the Seattle Times in this post. The guy that wrote the letter is. Right?
I'm not making this up: The Times has a blind "page designer" on staff.
it also said on the front page above the fold that the review would be online only that day, and that it would appear in the paper on saturday. geez why buy a paper if you don't even read it
True, they have a legally blind page designer. Actually, she's an art director for news design, and while she can't drive a car, she can see enough to design amazing pages and special sections. She's a helluva smart journalist. So don't go knocking her.
BTW, Beethoven was a deaf composer.
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