That's why I cut it from the print story.

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I have to agree with #2. Pasha's rant is irrelevant to your story, SLOG or no. Nickels' son is over 18 and thus, the content of Pasha's outburst is rather moot.

I completely disagree with Nickels' approach to this issue, but I don't see his son factoring into this story. If Nickels had been calling for leniency for his son, or claimed that his son was innocent or something, that would be different. Instead, Nickels has been largely silent about his son's arrest and has not appeared to condone his behavior.

I think this quote is a red herring.

By the way, does Nickels ever field questions from the press or the public? Has anyone had a chance to ask whether he things politically motivated publicity stunts are a good use of tax payer money and police resources?

The essential difference is that the print story is the one that's on the street for a week informing the conversation and telling the news. It's also the version that will be archived forever on our website as the definitive story.

This Slog post will disappear from the conversation sometime this afternoon. Yes, it will live forever online, but I don't suspect it'll be called up to inform the conversation.

Re: Slog posts in general. They come in all sorts of different stripes. They can be weighty attempts at the definitive story (See ECB's recent long posts on Tim Burgess) or they can be toss offs... in which case we note that. For example, in the very post we're talking about, I flagged its relative insignificance by writing: "I cut one of his quotes from the story because it wasn’t on topic. But the quote did capture exactly how angry Pasha is about the clampdown."

Most readers know not to trust what they read on their computer monitors. But words printed on paper will last forever and really matter.

luckily our head of security was on good terms with the head police officer and allowed him to do that but that doesn't negate them humiliating a tiny asian bartender and instigating what will probably probably turn out to be an illegal arrest.


the sting probably had it's desired effect, however. the following night i checked everyone's ID's. This isn't usually necessary because our security looks at every ID before anyone even makes it into the bar, but now i and the rest of my coworkers have to worry about getting thrown in jail for doing our job.


i have also heard that the SPD has been giving undercover agents fake IDs that they have made to "test our ability" at checking IDs.


do other cities have to worry about this?