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GONE WITH THE WIND - 2006

"There was a land of Publishers and Editors called the Newspaper Business... Here in this pretty world Journalism took its last bow... Here was the last ever to be seen of Reporters and their Enablers, of Anonymous Sources and of Stringers... Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered. A Civilization Gone With the Wind..."

With apologies to Margaret Mitchell...

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[LdSentinal]

They endorsed Bush in 2004.

[SkyPilot]

Wasn't King County where the corrupt Govenor, Christine Gregoire (D), "found" a few boxes of ballots that gave her the election?

Didn't this newspaper cover up this crime, and even make excuses for it?

[gogeo]

This is a shame. This was the only alternative to the Seattle P-I and the Times. They were comparatively sane.

They reprinted a lot of NY Times stuff, and that didn't work so well in the more conservative East and South King County.

[trek]

I wonder if this is a descendant of the old Eastside Journal. There used to be the Eastside Journal (Kirkland's paper) and the Bellevue American (Bellevue's paper). They merged to become the Eastside Journal many years ago when neither could compete with the Seattle Times and the Seattle PI (which also eventually merged).

[rockrr]

This is unfortunate because the Journal represented the closest thing to a "middle of the Road" perspective. The other two rags are pathetic liberal & ultra-ultra-liberal pieces of shiite.

It's all for the best I suppose - no one who can read buys them anyway ;'}

[sionnsar]

WA ping request.

This is sad news. For all the Journal-American/Eastside Journal/King County Journal has been slowly but steadily drifting leftward over the past quarter-century it's been a useful source of local news.

I will not even read the dishonest Seattle Times (free dome-on copies in my newspaper slot go straight to the landfill unopened), and the Seattle P-U isn't much better.

[Sicon]

"What can you say about the death of a newspaper? It's never good."

I respectfully disagree...

[BADROTOFINGER]

WA State Ping...JFK