Slog - Comments on Hard News http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news The hard news fans at HorsesAss are going to DropALoad when they see the cover of this morning's PI. Here's a run down of absolutely everything on the cover of today's PI: The PI's top three stories... The Crocodile Cafe CLOSED! Ticket Prices Rising for M's Fans Late Night is Returning: Whom Will the Joke be On? Plugged along the top of the paper... MONEY: What's the best credit card to use abroad? FOOTBALL: Huskies fire defensive coordinator, assistant MOVIES: "ONCE," FOR ALL: Indie hit is now on DVD Plugged at the bottom of the paper under "top stories"... Mexico... Copyright 2008 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:08:49 -0800 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:51:19 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Boomer in NYC There's news in Seattle? Get outta here.


]]> Boomer in NYC http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876896 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876896 Media Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:33:32 -0800 Comment by monkey What do you expect? It's the PI.

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876897 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876897 Media Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:35:46 -0800 Comment by Mike in MO Links to the real stories? I want to read about Turkey invading Kurdistan...

]]> Mike in MO http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876898 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876898 Media Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:35:54 -0800 Comment by Nandor This is why I read the SLOG and a couple other blogs instead of the local paper.

]]> Nandor http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876899 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876899 Media Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:39:07 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe I'm disappointed in the lack of SEAT knockin' lately.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876900 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876900 Media Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:39:14 -0800 Comment by monkey @ #3: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22307173/

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876903 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876903 Media Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:40:39 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave wait for the alt-a crisis folks!

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876905 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876905 Media Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:43:40 -0800 Comment by Peter It could be worse - NASA's CHANDRA project announced yesterday that the residents of Galaxy 3C321-B are being hosed down by an 850,000 light year long plume of xrays and high-energy particles being shot from the maw of a supermassive black hole at the center of Galaxy 3C321-A. Cosmic Bukkake!

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/photos07-139.html

Also, the Mariners have some nerve raising prices right now.

]]> Peter http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876906 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876906 Media Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:45:55 -0800 Comment by Homo Will Recession? I see impending DEpression.

Each day seems darker and darker.

]]> Homo Will http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876909 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876909 Media Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:51:34 -0800 Comment by sorry roger Evidently the PI thinks the Crocodile story is important enough to warrant three mentions in their email edition, once under "Top Local Stories" and twice under "Music." WTF?

]]> sorry roger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876911 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876911 Media Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:53:27 -0800 Comment by Fifty-Two-Eighty All local newspapers are drifting away from hard coverage of national news. You won't get much of it on local TV either. Guess they figure that if we want hard news, we can go to cable or the internet. Even today' NY Times is light on hard news and heavy on human interest stories and opion columns.

]]> Fifty-Two-Eighty http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876913 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876913 Media Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:02:26 -0800 Comment by DOUG. The Croc story says a lot about Seattle and deserves its above-the-fold treatment.

M's prices should be in agate type on E6.

]]> DOUG. http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876917 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876917 Media Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:05:36 -0800 Comment by Fnarf How shocking! For people who can't be bothered to crack the front page, that is. All the stories you want are inside.

As for Nandor @4, is that meant to be a joke?

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876920 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876920 Media Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:07:58 -0800 Comment by tpn Steinbrueck sells out Surface-Transit through zoning...

]]> tpn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876921 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876921 Media Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:08:03 -0800 Comment by Greg Yup. Shit's in the P-I.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876929 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876929 Media Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:16:47 -0800 Comment by elenchos Joe Connelley is on KUOW now. Why is he such a cock?

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876935 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876935 Media Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:22:19 -0800 Comment by kk Meanwhile, Vanity Fair (!) has the story from the Nobel laureate on the impending Bushonomic meltdown. Go figure. http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/12/bush200712

]]> kk http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876941 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876941 Media Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:28:06 -0800 Comment by Burgin99 Local paper full of sensationalist stories to sell more copies? Say it ain't so!

I look forward to your post announcing how rain is, ya know, all wet and stuff.

]]> Burgin99 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876943 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876943 Media Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:29:09 -0800 Comment by bigyaz I bet if you check page hits on the P-I site you'll find 10 times as many hits on the Mariners ticket prices than any story involving subprime mortgages.

Readers who are surveyed always insist they want more international news, more serious stuff -- but the evidence overwhelmingly says otherwise.

]]> bigyaz http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876946 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876946 Media Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:34:29 -0800 Comment by Sporting Fellow well, praise the lord that we have you, dan, to fill us in on the important stuff like husbands offing their estranged wives and kids 4 or 5 times a day.

]]> Sporting Fellow http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876964 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876964 Media Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:47:07 -0800 Comment by Original Andrew There’s also the small matter that we’re in a total constitutional crisis, and that the executive, legislative and judicial branches of our government—as well as the establishment media—have all totally failed. Glenn Greenwald is on fire:


"Ultimately, what is most significant about all of this is how the most consequential steps our government takes -- such as endless expansion of its domestic spying programs with literally no oversight and constraints of law -- occur with virtually no public debate or awareness. By contrast, the pettiest of matters -- every sneeze of a campaign aide and every trite, catty gossip item from our moronic traveling press corps -- receives endless, mindless herd-like attention.



The very nature of our country and our government fundamentally transforms step by step, with little opposition. We all were inculcated with the notion that what distinguished our free country from those horrendous authoritarian tyrannies, both right and left, of the Soviet bloc, Latin America and the Middle East were things like executive detentions, torture, secret prisons, spying on their own citizens, unprovoked invasions of sovereign countries, and exemptions from the law for the most powerful -- precisely the abuses which increasingly characterize our government and shape our political values."


http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/12/16/telecoms/index.html

]]> Original Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876998 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c876998 Media Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:11:19 -0800 Comment by Hey Dan ... How many Slog/Lineout posts did this warrant? 111 comments on one of those posts? Gee, no news there. Nothing Seattle should be worried about.

Nothing like a free bar-ad rag to remind us of the higher moral ground.

]]> Hey Dan ... http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c877005 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c877005 Media Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:18:27 -0800 Comment by Slogur Why use "whom" and dangle its governing preposition? Sigh. "Whom" is essentially archaic except in written prose meant to sound formal or educated, and in other contexts (such as that headline) it's grating.

]]> Slogur http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c877011 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c877011 Media Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:22:47 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle See, the writer's strike is affecting everyone - even the papers which can't outsource their content ...

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c877041 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c877041 Media Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:38:28 -0800 Comment by Cale Rail corridor gets okay?

No rail corridor in Seattle is "okay."

;-)

]]> Cale http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c877161 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c877161 Media Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:03:42 -0800 Comment by Gomez This phenomenon of masking important news is sad. But those world news stories are more of the same at this point. They were the same stories as yesterday, last week, last month.... Not enough people cared then and even fewer are going to care now, whether or not you think they should.

]]> Gomez http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c877174 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c877174 Media Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:13:43 -0800 Comment by Sean Who reads the PI (or The Stranger, for that matter) for coverage of weighty national and international issues? That's what BBC, New York Times, AP, Reuters, etc. are for.

]]> Sean http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c877294 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c877294 Media Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:38:16 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Actually, the PI is pretty good, it's the Times that generally is out of it.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c877315 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/hard_news#c877315 Media Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:51:19 -0800