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Has Slog independently verified that fact?
Can we bottle it and sell it?
The news doesn't care about them - we've had major riots involving hundreds of black kids in this city that the daily newspapers never reported on and that weren't shown on TV, so why would the Mayor show up?
Seriously, if you actually think the "news" you get has anything to do with what goes on in this city, you're obviously a juggalo high on MJ.
I mean, it's like someone calls you a liar, and then you defend yourself, and then I go "Pfft. It's not important anyway." That would make me a fuckhead, if I did that. Wouldn't it?
Isn't that a little problematic?
Actually there's one group of people who care less about black kids: black parents.
Chris Rock said it best, it ain't the media he's looking for at the ATM machine:
http://tinyurl.com/nq737l
Unless some white kid gets hurt, it's not news.
I don't make the rules, but it's been going on in this city for a long time. Maybe you should get off Capitol Hill once in a while.
Journalistic cat-fights are FUN!
to be followed by journalistic dick measuring...which Frizzelle will undoubtedly win...unless Jim Foreman is in the ring.
As far as the stranger, the SLOG is expanding the paper's coverage mostly thanks to its semi-observant readers..although its still primarily an arts and restaurant review operation. Aside from making the jokes and cracks about all the new condos and their monied owners (the new target audience) the Stranger has for the most part been a local Mad Magazine. But not as good.
that's not a riot, it was probably a family get-together.
The media caters to those who buy it. If more black people chose to listen to KUOW maybe they'd be more shows on bitches and hos and fewer on how to plant spring crockus.
Glad to see all the hubbub about this article was bs.
But I'm flailing here. I'll have to go read Erica's piece now.
Anyway, I don't think anyone wins a Stranger vs. Publicola fight. If that's what this is. People who like sadness, maybe.
Welcome Claudia, they need you. Really need you. Dom has promise, edit his stuff with an axe, he needs to learn to report.
Eli is doing fuzzy, what happened? His advice to Dow was hangover blah.
Welcome.
Publicola: "Fryer says Nickels attended several funerals (sending deputy mayor Tim Ceis to one in his stead) and met privately with the families of several of the murdered young men."
The Stranger: "Alex Fryer, spokesperson for the mayor, just confirmed by phone that the mayor did not attend any of those funerals. "You're correct in stating he did not attend the funerals of those five people you mention," he said."
Someone is fibbing/wrong here and it might even not be a journalist.
Odd comment from Erica about editorializing though. I've always liked the Stranger's ranty opining, whether it's Dan Savage, Erica C. Barnett or A. Birch Steen.
When ever someone called her on it, she cried sexism and misogyny. Good riddance.
And I I haven't read everything Erica wrote while she was working for The Stranger but I had the sense she was good for it. And I'd hope the Stranger was good for her.
But maybe you know more than I do.
I just don't like to see fighting after a break-up.
It will be interesting now that the Stranger has a real journalist in the mix.
What, you mean FACTUAL ACCURACY? Yeah, real silly for a news reporter to "nitpick" over something like that.
http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweek…
This was astonishing to me... the Stranger has a proud muckraking tradition and here they were, censoring the SLOG in order to protect ECB's reputation.
WTF?
She had a bad reputation well before that event.
@28 & 29 : perfectly reasonable request: I'd be interested in getting more facts about those incidents, Will. A single link here would be a wee slice of heaven.
@34: send her some swag wine. (You know, so doesn't have to... ... I don't even need to say it, do i?)
@49 your racism has about as many IQ points as your show size or age. And I'm betting on/hoping the larger of the two being the shoe size. He should attend funerals because they died on his watch. After his promises that they wouldn't. It's like he's, I dunno, in the exec branch and 'responsible' and shit. Hell, if I were in charge of an amusement park, and some guest died on a ride, even after I promised 'to clean it up' and promised 'it's safer now', I'd probably go that funeral too. And not just offer condolences but apologies. It's a decent respectable thing to do. Above your pay grade / class, clearly, @49, but humane & decent. But Greg, he's a dropout frat boy failure from chicago and we all knew it, so it shouldn't be a surprise, right?
*That there's Bathroom Butt, aka John Keister, humor. Look it up, junior.
By the time posts were actually deleted, most people were tired of having every single comment thread derailed by the people obsessed over ECB's arrest. Calling this censorship is quite a stretch.