Brokeback Muslims
Posted on 08/22/2007 12:17:52 AM PDT by Stoat
Brokeback Muslims
Can’t believe FBSS wasn’t pinged.
In Seattle, there are essentially two local papers, the Seattle Times and the Seattle P.I. Many would argue that they are the same paper because there is a "joint operating agreement" guiding their operations that was brought about in a court decision some years ago. Mouthpieces of the papers will instantly bleat that "the papers have independent editorial control" but for those of us who have observed these 'news' outlets over the course of decades this is a distinction without meaning, as on an issue - by - issue basis, there isn't a dime's worth of difference between the two, although many would say that the PI is "the more hysterically and unabashedly Leftist" of the two.
That being said, if you are an advertiser and you want to run a print ad in the Seattle / King County market in a newspaper, you have no choice. There is no other option. You either advertise in the Times or the PI or you don't advertise in a Seattle paper that has any particular reach at all.
Tuesday's Daily Haiku was a bad call
It also spread throughout the blogosphere. While most blogs pointed directly to the debate, some made some poignant comments about the topic of yesterday's Daily Haiku contest, a topic that -- considering the sensitivity of the issue -- was probably not the best we could have come up with.
While the Big Blog mixes fun and news on a daily basis, in this case we undermined a serious issue and a serious debate, and made it seem as if we in the newsroom didn't acknowledge its importance.
So thanks to all the bloggers who pointed this out. We agree it was a bad call and will learn from the experience.
P.S. -- We're not going to pick a winner.
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The reader comments at the linked page are a scream..... "almost" as good as the ones here :-)
I didn't know that there were that many sane people in Seattle.
Dori Monson’s listeners (he’s on opposite Rush, I think, on KIRO) are a pretty loyal bunch.
Huzzah to them.
Bravo!
The Patriot Act
Frightens me a lot more than
Terrorists with bombs
I must not offend
Muslim men are people too
What was that loud bang?
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Appreciate the PING...wish I could say this was “unbelievable.”
The old Seattle P.U. strikes again.
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Ah, yes ... the Seattle Pravda-Izvestigencer ...
LOL The horrible rag “Olympian” is doing the same thing at my house and I have to clean up the mess every day.
Don’t kill us lefties
Liberals are on your side
Target R’s instead
Posted by ollo_ollo at 8/22/07 9:31 a.m.
Ferry To Our JiHad
All Your Boats BeLong To Us
HellO InFiDels
awww...I'm very sorry to hear that they are doing this to you :-(
"Wondering if it's feasible to collect them for several weeks, then put them all in a big box and return them 'freight collect'?"
You're only returning their property, after all, which they apparently left at your address by mistake.
((((evil furry stoat-wink)))))
Allah is God Almighty
Leftists say to Muzzies
Just Kill Christians
Posted by ollo_ollo at 8/22/07 9:31 a.m.
Ferry To Our JiHad
All Your Boats BeLong To Us
HellO InFiDels
That's a good one! Not me, unfortunately
Re these two ferry-persons, since they have not turned up by now, what with the intense national media coverage
my guess is that they are both being hidden in the basement of a mosque somewhere, while the imams are deciding how to get them across the Mexican border in a big cardboard box.
Either that or they will be paraded to the media by a squadron of CAIR lawyers in a day or two while they announce a lawsuit against the State of Washington for a billion dollars or so (it was a State employee who snapped the pictures, on State time)
Ferries are sinking,
While you shine Lenin’s statue,
and drink a latte.
(There - that was my first and last Haiku ever! About the stupidist thing there ever was IMHO. What’s the point?!)
The water is cold.
My lungs are filled and bursting.
But I die P.C.
Building, ink, presses.
Fine place to start a newspaper.
If you knew how.
Who are these ‘masked’ men?
Michelle Malkin has pictures.
Get your news from her.
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