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News & ArtsTuesday, March 17, 2009
Media Who's In the PI?
Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:12 PM
There was a lot of speculation about who would stick around at the PI to produce content after the last print edition hit the streets today.
A fairly short list of names has been batted around, including Joel Connelly, Monica Guzman, Andrea James and Scott Sunde.
Well, you can also add sports columnists Art Thiel and Jim Moore, crime reporters Scott Gutierrez and Casey McNerthney, court reporter Levi Pulkkinen, political editor Chris Grygiel and cartoonist David Horsey to the list of folks sticking around at the PI.
Congrats, guys.
There may be one or two people I've left off the list. I'll update if I get any other names.
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*yawn*
Yet another lame P-I piece.
You guys are really playing this for all it is worth aren't you?
Moving on....
Yet another lame P-I piece.
You guys are really playing this for all it is worth aren't you?
Moving on....
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what's with the congrats. These guys are SCABS!!! They are union busting SCABS!!!! Where is the Guild? What was the strike all about? Remember the nasty behaviours over the crossing of the picket lines? Would these folks have been tolerated then? Why now? These guys agreed to deals that the union would never have sanctioned. And you say "congrats"
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@10. What we are witnessing is the grand hypocrisy of the "journalist" being exposed. The only thing a journalist has that an intelligent blogger does not is access to the real newsmakers, and journalists only have that because of their employer. All this talk about "you'll be sorry when we're gone!" is more of the cries for attention from a profession that thrives on calling attention to itself.
Old salts like Connelly have confused the medium with the content. They love to talk about the "deadlines" and the "smell of newsprint" and the "feel of a paper tucked under your arm.", as if the filthy piece of ink stained paper had any inherent value. It is the content that made a newspaper popular, not it's capacity to line birdcages.
"Journalistic Integrity" was pretty much always a myth, and the blogging revolution has exposed it. Would the NYT's Jason Blair have ever been caught fabricating stories if he wasn't cross-checked by "non-traditional journalists"? What about Dan Rather's "MemoGate" scandal? The list of "trusted journalists" who outright lie to their audience (Maureen Dowd), for a variety of reasons, is lengthy. If you can still get the desired praise by doing your job dishonestly, then who cares about union solidarity?
Old salts like Connelly have confused the medium with the content. They love to talk about the "deadlines" and the "smell of newsprint" and the "feel of a paper tucked under your arm.", as if the filthy piece of ink stained paper had any inherent value. It is the content that made a newspaper popular, not it's capacity to line birdcages.
"Journalistic Integrity" was pretty much always a myth, and the blogging revolution has exposed it. Would the NYT's Jason Blair have ever been caught fabricating stories if he wasn't cross-checked by "non-traditional journalists"? What about Dan Rather's "MemoGate" scandal? The list of "trusted journalists" who outright lie to their audience (Maureen Dowd), for a variety of reasons, is lengthy. If you can still get the desired praise by doing your job dishonestly, then who cares about union solidarity?
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I just found out this thread is directly linked from the content aggregator known as the Seattle Times .... on their home page.
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sreader: While your support and enthusiasm for labor is commendable, I'd urge you to check your facts before labeling people as scabs.
I'm not personally acquainted with every person on the list, but I know most of them as good Guild members, some of whom have served on bargaining teams and as shop stewards.
Seattlepi.com in its present from has just started and these folks have not yet been given the opportunity to decide whether to be represented.
Thanks for your support,
Yoko Kuramoto-Eidsmoe
(president, Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild)
I'm not personally acquainted with every person on the list, but I know most of them as good Guild members, some of whom have served on bargaining teams and as shop stewards.
Seattlepi.com in its present from has just started and these folks have not yet been given the opportunity to decide whether to be represented.
Thanks for your support,
Yoko Kuramoto-Eidsmoe
(president, Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild)
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