Comments on Hard News
There's news in Seattle? Get outta here.
What do you expect? It's the PI.
Links to the real stories? I want to read about Turkey invading Kurdistan...
This is why I read the SLOG and a couple other blogs instead of the local paper.
I'm disappointed in the lack of SEAT knockin' lately.
wait for the alt-a crisis folks!
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.
Recession? I see impending DEpression.
Each day seems darker and darker.
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?
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.
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.
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?
Steinbrueck sells out Surface-Transit through zoning...
Yup. Shit's in the P-I.
Joe Connelley is on KUOW now. Why is he such a cock?
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
See, the writer's strike is affecting everyone - even the papers which can't outsource their content ...
Rail corridor gets okay?
No rail corridor in Seattle is "okay."
;-)
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.
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.
Actually, the PI is pretty good, it's the Times that generally is out of it.
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