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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Couldn't Afford to Buy the P-I?

Posted by Eli Sanders on Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:30 AM

Perhaps a t-shirt is more in your price range. Last month I began posting this image, which Seattle Post-Intelligencer illustrator Andrew Saeger created for a commemorative staff t-shirt after it became clear that Washington State's oldest newspaper was on its deathbed. Ever since, people in the comments have been asking how they can get a t-shirt for themselves.

4d39/1236116053-pi_shirt.jpgYou can now get one here, at a site run by Saeger and his brother.

Looking for P-I nostalgia at an even lower price-point?

Check out KUOW's wonderful series on the history of the P-I, which is airing this week and includes a link to a slideshow that offers a very retro photo of Seattle City Councilwoman (and former P-I reporter) Jean Godden plus a recording of P-I columnist Joel Connelly reminiscing fondly about how a highly scientific SLOG poll once crowned him Most Likely to Have Pissed on the Seattle Times.

Confidential to Connelly: I dug up the poll in question, and for now the actual results appear lost to history. But poll comment number two ("Why no Joel Connelly?") suggests that you actually might not have won the honor you're claiming. Hmmm.... A mis-remembrance of polls past? An unconscious guilty plea? A rare case of commenter confusion? In any case, I'm going to ask our tech wizards if they can find a definitive answer on who really placed first in our famous piss poll. Stay tuned.

UPDATE: Tech wizard Anthony Hecht turns a few dials, flips a few switches, and presto, the piss poll re-appears. Turns out Connelly is, indeed, engaging in some mild historic piss revisionism. He was in fact included in our poll, but he placed second to former P-I staffer Melanie McFarland, with Art Thiel a very close third.

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Enough with the minute-by-minute updates on the P-I's status. Businesses fail every day. Big deal. If there's a market for news, someone will be there to sell it. I was once a journalist, too, and I know how one can start to think that everyone cares passionately about every detail of the business, but they don't.
Posted by Mason on March 10, 2009 at 8:10 AM
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@1 - I do. It may surprise you to learn that you don't speak for "everyone." If you're not interested, skip to the next post. We're not running out of room on the Internet.
Posted by Skranter on March 10, 2009 at 8:41 AM
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This is a very important time in Seattle history. Keep covering it for those of us who care Eli.

Mason, if you don't like the stories, keep scrolling. If you don't like a story, scroll on by. You don't need to post a comment saying you don't like it. Your absence from the comments will let others know you don't care.
Posted by Perry on March 10, 2009 at 8:42 AM
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Jezus, your coverage is approaching blow job status! Why don't you just tell all the P-Iers you want to have sex with them and be done with it, instead of taking up valuable white space that Dan could be wasting?
Posted by Danny on March 10, 2009 at 8:44 AM
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Joel Connelly is a gasbag. And apparently a liar.
Posted by DOUG. on March 10, 2009 at 8:53 AM
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KPLU is also doing a reflective series on the P-I/Times revenue issues. I didn't realize both they and KUOW were.
Posted by Anon 2day on March 10, 2009 at 9:37 AM
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Thank you for your coverage Eli. You've gained a big following.
Posted by Fannie on March 10, 2009 at 9:40 AM
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What's sad for me is not the loss of name commentators like Connelly. It's the day-to-day reporting, and their intensive special reporting, neither of which will even be duplicated by any blog.

For instance, the article in today's paper by Lewis Kamb about clearcuts on Boy Scout land; who's going to be writing stories like that? Or the long ongoing series on the state's mental health system by Carol Smith; who's going to pay for that? Or the fantastic series they did on the Duwamish cleanup last year, by Robert McClure and Colin McDonald -- take a look at http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/specials/d… and tell me if you think Slog can fill that gap.

Blowhards will never be in short supply. But real reporting costs money.
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Posted by ENOUGH on March 10, 2009 at 3:28 PM

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