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News & ArtsMonday, March 16, 2009
City / Media Goodbye, P-I: Last Print Edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to Publish Tomorrow
Posted by Eli Sanders on Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:13 AM
The Hearst Corp. announced that the P-I will become the nation's largest daily newspaper to shift entirely online.
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Sad, but it seems fitting that a daily newspaper in Seattle will be the largest daily online. It is now about reinvention, innovation and breakthroughs.
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Well, guess I have to sign up for the NY Times now. Even my neighbor has gotten sick of the WSJ, so that's not an option, and nobody wants the Seattle Times.
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#4 how many times do you think you need to tell us this? nobody could care less what paper you get or how much you hate the seattle times. in fact, your hating the times is a ringing endorsement for them. please shut up for once.
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Hey Seattle PI -- I would love to have a Kindle version of you. Currently I'm relying on Seattle Times:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Seattle-Times/…
Get up there at, say, $3.99/month and blow the Seattle Times out of the Kindle waters!
http://www.amazon.com/The-Seattle-Times/…
Get up there at, say, $3.99/month and blow the Seattle Times out of the Kindle waters!
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As I said in an earlier thread, the Hearst corporation should reserve the castle in San Simeon and for an all expenses paid luxury 4-day weekend for the Seattle P.I. staff. That's the least they can do.
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The PI was always the corporate shill of the Hearst Co. Any idiot who thought it was THE local paper now knows that is was not. Would a local based, sensitive, caring company dump 150 people in a single swipe, with one day's notice? Yeah, right. The Seattle Times will eventually pick up some of the PI writers (like they have been doing for years) --look beyond your noses! The Times is a perfect replacement for the PI.
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@4, Everyone Else In Seattle has a safe haven from you in the Times comment boards.
So please keep your promise to stay away.
Thanks.
So please keep your promise to stay away.
Thanks.
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Adotas has an interesting bit of news about possible plans in the Hearst corporation. Apparently, they've hired NBC Universal’s former chief digital officer George Kliavkoff, often billed as the main brain behind Hulu. Read about it here: http://www.adotas.com/2009/03/hearst-hir…
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I say BOYCOTT the new SeattlePI.com Let's NOT play this game with Hearst. Let's NOT let this kind of union busting -- and there will be no Guild at the SeattlePi.com -- go unchallenged. Did you back the newspaper strike a few years back? It was for better wages, health benefits and a more fair deal for reporters, editors and production people...HAHAHAHAHAHA... Hearst won.
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@6 Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! One more Seattle Suburban Times from WIS and I'm going to vomit out my fucking colon.
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“Seattlepi.com isn't a newspaper online—it’s an effort to craft a new type of digital business with a robust, community news and information Web site at its core,” said Swartz. “It will feature the breaking news reporting of Chris Grygiel and others covering City Hall; Levi Pulkkinen reporting on the court system; popular staff blogs like Seattle 911 with Casey McNerthney and the Big Blog by Monica Guzman; columnists like Joel Connelly, Art Thiel and Jim Moore; and of course, the cartooning and commentary of two-time Pulitzer Prize winner David Horsey. The Web is first and foremost a community platform, so we'll be featuring new columns from prominent Seattle residents; more than 150 reader blogs, community data bases and photo galleries. We'll also be linking to the great work of other Web sites and blogs in the community."
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I'm sure I'm not the only one who noticed that a baby started making sounds right as he announced that the seattlepi.com site has been reborn. That was kinda creepy.
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The bloodline doesn't continue. The online version is a tragic end to Seattle's oldest business.
I don't know what, if any, are the traditions of newspapers' last editions, but I hope there are some. I hope someone sneaks a couple of "fucks" and "shits" and "cunts" into various articles, and a sneaky picture of Frank Blethen's face mounted on a horse's ass would be delightful.
I don't know what, if any, are the traditions of newspapers' last editions, but I hope there are some. I hope someone sneaks a couple of "fucks" and "shits" and "cunts" into various articles, and a sneaky picture of Frank Blethen's face mounted on a horse's ass would be delightful.
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The Times comics page is terrible. At least the P-I has Mary Worth, Judge Parker, Rex Morgan MD, and Mark Trail. The Times has NOTHING. And nobody has Apartment 3-G.
I do think that a printed paper could pick up some readership by going back to the old-style LARGE comics, instead of the microscopic strips they squeeze in now. Sure, it would be wasted on most of the ineptly drawn garbage that people seem to go for these days, but maybe printing them large would make people realize how good artwork can be, and maybe even attract artists who can draw to start doing strips again. The modern gag strip is just an embarrassment to look at. I blame Dilbert.
I do think that a printed paper could pick up some readership by going back to the old-style LARGE comics, instead of the microscopic strips they squeeze in now. Sure, it would be wasted on most of the ineptly drawn garbage that people seem to go for these days, but maybe printing them large would make people realize how good artwork can be, and maybe even attract artists who can draw to start doing strips again. The modern gag strip is just an embarrassment to look at. I blame Dilbert.
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@22, a known problem. Lots of the strips are distributed by King Features Syndicate. No points for guessing that King Features is owned by Hearst.
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Hearst Corporation pull plug on Seattle P-I print edition, Seattle P-I publish final print edition, freak out, online-only out, SEATTLE P-I BECOME ONLINE-ONLY NEWSPAPER!
ONLINE-ONLY SEATTLE P-I WILL SMASH ONLINE-ONLY SEATTLE TIMES!
And no, I don't feel like letting it go.
ONLINE-ONLY SEATTLE P-I WILL SMASH ONLINE-ONLY SEATTLE TIMES!
And no, I don't feel like letting it go.
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