Posted on 03/16/2009 9:47:35 PM PDT by Birch T. Barlow
Ah, the ironies of web-only news. My email alert for local news informs me of the death of the dead-tree Post-Intelligencer with this headline: The 146-year-old Seattle Post-Ingelligencer [sic] will print its last edition Tuesday and will go Web only.
This reduces the number of frothingly liberal daily and weekly newspapers in Seattle to... three -- Seattle Times, Seattle Weekly, The [Odious] Stranger. So there won't exactly be a shortage of liberal spew anytime soon in this town.
Addressing the death of the P. I, the editor promised the vampire editon: "Tonight we'll be putting the paper to bed for the last time," Editor and Publisher Roger Oglesby reportedly told his staff Monday morning. "But the bloodline will live on." I can hear the murmur in the background saying, "The Blood is the Life!"
Still, the P-I died as it lived, offering up the bile of columnists such as zombie journalist Helen Thomas bleating What are U.S. goals in Afghanistan? It also boasted editorials whining that the state of Washington is. just. not. green. enough.
(Excerpt) Read more at americandigest.org ...
Buh bye :D
That's a good one.
Post-Intelligencer
a fitting name.
the real reason why liberal newspapers are failing? most liberals get their news from the Daily Show.
Don’t forget that their daily excuses of “it’s Bush’s fault’ gets tired after 8 years. Libs aren’t creative as people think they are..
At least they were able to turn Seattle into a liberal sewer before they closed their doors.
Pray for America and Our Troops
Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya, P.I.!
oh what will the poor ‘RATS in that liberal cesspool aka seattle do now?
now, they will have even less incentive to learn how to read
<oh what will the poor ‘RATS in that liberal cesspool aka seattle do now?
According to the P-I site, they’re going to go to an all online format with 150 citizen bloggers.
Jeez, and I remember when Drudge started and the journalists got all up in arms because, according to them, he wasn’t a ‘professional.’ Now they’re staffing the paper with bloggers. Well, I guess using free info from bloggers is one way to stay afloat.
Lived in Seattle 21 years, moved back to Texas two years ago.
Couldn’t take another day of the whining unwashed masses, horribly misplaced civic attitude and the lousy liberal government.
ALL the papers there are “progressive” neo-socialist rags.
Seattle is trying really hard to be the new san Francisco.
The TIMES needs to die next!
I do hope they save the globe atop the P.I. building, though. That's a classic artifact of an earlier and far better journalism age.
Hope all is well with you and your socks!
Conservative, liberal or apolitical? I can't imagine you writing for a liberal rag. :)
I do hope they save the globe atop the P.I. building, though. That's a classic artifact of an earlier and far better journalism age.
The city will probably do something to keep that. Maybe they'll do like they did with the Enron crooked 'E' that used to be in front of that building and auction it off.
(I always wanted that crooked 'E.' I thought it would make a great conversation piece.)
Good riddance. Especially Horsey, although I am sure he will pop up somewhere else. Shame.
14 plus for me. I hear ya! Unfortunately I moved to California but at least I am near Reagan’s Ranch :-). Lucky you in Texas!! Good move!
I was but a youngster when I barged my way into the uber-liberal Seattle Sun (no longer with us) by covering things nobody else wanted to cover (the Port of Seattle, for example). I ended up doing a sports column (which they had never had before and which enabled me -- by virtue of my press pass -- to be fed and (more importantly) beered by the Sonics, Seahawks and Mariners on a regular basis when I was as broke as Bernie Madoff is at the moment). I also sold advertising.
So I was sort of doing a bunch of conservative stuff on a liberal paper, come to think of it! They gave a kid a break, though, so I'll always be grateful.
Met great folks on that ragtag staff. Still email with some of 'em all these years later.
I know it’s an offbeat notion but.....
As each of these rags dips under the waves I wonder if it ever occurs to any of them - what if, just for sh!ts & giggles, they opted to print an unbiased paper as an alternative to their death by the numbers?
...nah!
(Say goodnite Gracie!)
That was going to be my reply.
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