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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Media Airplanes Don't Build Themselves

Posted by Goldy on Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:05 PM

I wonder if the RealJournalists™ ever feel a twinge of irony contrasting their fawning coverage of Boeing with their dismissive coverage of the unionized workers who actually build the planes?

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Want to read some dismissive coverage of unionized Boeing workers you ought to read what Brendan Kiley wrote about the unions at Boeing. Not exactly "pro-union"

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on July 10, 2012 at 12:20 PM

I'm sure they feel twinges of irony no less often than writers at our beloved Stranger. Glass houses: more stone-resistant every day:

Great news! And you don't need to look down the hill to the Seattle Times for union bashing on the NLRB case. Your own colleague Brendan Kiley blamed the union for forcing poor Boeing to open that South Carolina line. It was pretty classic.
The Boeing machinists' strike last year totally fucked up the company's efforts to roll out a new jet, which may mean that Boeing leaves Washington for, say, South Carolina, which would mean that the strike—in the long run—totally fucked over tens of thousands of working-class families.
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archive…

http://www.thestranger.com/slog/archives…

Posted by gloomy gus on July 10, 2012 at 12:25 PM

@2, Wonder if The Stranger is now a unionized newspaper?

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on July 10, 2012 at 12:29 PM

@1, @2 I'm not going to defend Brendan, but since The Stranger doesn't provide fawning coverage of Boeing, there's no ironic contrast.

Posted by Goldy on July 10, 2012 at 12:30 PM

@1, jinx! I owe you a Coke. @4, n'enculons pas des mouches.

Posted by gloomy gus on July 10, 2012 at 12:34 PM

You're comparing an editorial to a news story. Two different sides of the house. So it's OK that there's differing viewpoints.

Unlike the Stranger, where there are no differing viewpoints.

Posted by bigyaz on July 10, 2012 at 12:44 PM

@6 I would argue that the Seattle Times itself has a hard time distinguishing the difference between a feature and an editorial.
I wouldn't argue that the Stranger has differing viewpoints either but is that a bad thing? Some issues don't have two sides, some do, and some have many sides.
Also, the Times pretty much pretends to care about what people in Seattle think, yet endorse candidates that Seattle votes against.

Oh and lastly, I'm so glad Goldy popped out of wherever he did to write for the Stranger because his posts literally say the things I'm thinking and not seeing written anywhere else.

Posted by michael bell on July 10, 2012 at 1:02 PM

@7, I usually have my own unique thoughts and don't have to come to the internet to find them...

Posted by Stewie Griffin on July 10, 2012 at 1:08 PM

Uh, those articles are ten years apart.

Posted by balmontguy on July 10, 2012 at 1:30 PM

@9 shush, if Goldy's thinking can't evolve over a decade nobody else's can either. Is logical.

Posted by gloomy gus on July 10, 2012 at 1:37 PM

Thank you for sharing Stewie, I'm sure someone out there gives a fuck.

Posted by michael bell on July 10, 2012 at 6:15 PM

@8 Your username is Stewie Griffin, nuff said.

Posted by Bigsfrottin on July 10, 2012 at 7:17 PM

Ya, but just THINK about how big the bonuses for top level exec's could be if they could get rid of the unions and then force the machinists and other employees to work for 40% less! Profits would soar and executives at the top could FINALLY get those second luxury yachts to keep at their 3rd homes in the Hamptons.

Posted by 1%Guysays on July 11, 2012 at 7:47 PM