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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Media Guess We Need to Increase Circulation on Whidbey

Posted by Erica C. Barnett on Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:53 AM

P-I columnist Joel Connelly, talking on KUOW, just declared The Stranger an "underground newspaper."

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He also referred to that "famous" (24-yrs-ago) Burger King ad "where's the beef."

Posted by Andy Niable on January 6, 2009 at 9:59 AM

He actually said it was a Burger King ad?

Posted by stinkbug on January 6, 2009 at 10:01 AM

Dude's a gasbag.

Posted by DOUG. on January 6, 2009 at 10:02 AM

Does the P-I still deliver to Whidbey? Curious because I see they're pulling a lot of their boxes.

Posted by far-flunger on January 6, 2009 at 10:12 AM

Okay, so poor Joel's brain started atrophying around 1968. Anyone who's read his column lately shouldn't really be surprised by this "revelation".

Wonder how badly he's going to freak out when he sees "Zippy The Pinhead" in the PI's comics section.

Posted by COMTE on January 6, 2009 at 10:14 AM

The Stranger is indeed is an underground newspaper. It's not something you admit to reading in polite society.

Posted by raindrop on January 6, 2009 at 10:18 AM

What happened to the Bellingham Stranger boxes? Increase distribution here!

Posted by mdurango on January 6, 2009 at 10:28 AM

@4 Yes.

Posted by heywhatsit on January 6, 2009 at 10:29 AM

Underground?

Didn't that term make sense in the days of mimeographed and stapled sheets from the Weathermen and Yippies passed among true believers?

How "under" can you be if all it takes is Google Chrome to read it.

Posted by What's that spell? on January 6, 2009 at 10:34 AM

@5 he did see it and he made the PI pull Zippy this week for another weak family cartoon - the pajama diaries.

Posted by beef on January 6, 2009 at 10:36 AM

@5 - oddly enough, Zippy was pulled from the PI's comics page this week - replaced by the Pajama Diaries.

Posted by Anonym on January 6, 2009 at 10:37 AM

Joel Connelly is utterly irrelevant. He was the primary voice against I-1000 and all his wide circulation got him was its passage by 58%. Anyone who listens closely doesn’t listen to him.

Posted by Gabe Global on January 6, 2009 at 10:39 AM

By the sound of his voice, Connelly must have tremendously massive adenoids.

Posted by Joe M on January 6, 2009 at 10:40 AM

Stranger reporters need to start sporting trenchcoats and sunglasses -- you're in the underground now.

Posted by Tim Appelo on January 6, 2009 at 10:40 AM

That's ridiculous. How could he call you that? Publication, maybe, but "newspaper" is stretching it.

Posted by sleestak on January 6, 2009 at 11:45 AM

jealousy. pure jealousy.

Posted by scary tyler moore on January 6, 2009 at 11:56 AM

I'd have thought you would enjoy the attention. Don't you?

Posted by elenchos on January 6, 2009 at 12:02 PM

So why isn't he covering the City Council pretense over snow removal and the lack of transit in person?

Enquiring city councilmembers want to know ...

Posted by My Name Here on January 6, 2009 at 12:11 PM

What are the Stranger's circulation numbers anyhow? Have they been going up, down, stagnant? How does that compare with other local weeklies and dailies?

Posted by Is this stuff public? on January 6, 2009 at 12:33 PM

Latest rate card has their readership at 437,200. Not sure what science is used to get that, or whether its been up or down, but I suspect since its free, the circulation isn't affected by the recession- only the number of advertisers.

Posted by fred garvey on March 9, 2009 at 6:08 AM