http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/10/19/the-sales-pitch-from-the-seattle-times-company-to-local-politicians Comments On: The Sales Pitch from The Seattle Times Company to Local Politicians by Eli Sanders en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Wed, 22 May 2013 22:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Mister G]]> Sun, 21 Oct 2012 23:15:06 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty]]> Sat, 20 Oct 2012 03:59:40 -0700 The Stranger
I'm not sure NYT is as good as their reputation and you won't see much Washington State news there.

Just a suggestion.


Posted by david]]> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 22:22:48 -0700 The Stranger
I do love this story. It'll be embarrassing to be a city with no daily newspaper, but not nearly as embarrassing as being a city with this one.
Posted by Free Lunch]]> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:12:27 -0700 The Stranger Posted by lauramae]]> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:59:39 -0700 The Stranger
@36, I think the idea in newspaper circles is that every copy is read by three or four people, which inflates the numbers.
Posted by Fnarf]]> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:30:17 -0700 The Stranger seems like bullshit. Their daily circulation is 250K, and their Sunday is 350K. This is subscribers plus purchasers.

A one-day ad will reach at most 350K people, so this 1.8 million is what? Some multi-day figure, assuming different people buy it day to day?

It's paper! It doesn't report back on who bought it. There is no possible reliable way to determine, say, yearly unique readers. This is one of the reasons print advertising is so inferior.

And even if they do reach 1.8 million uniques in a year, saying the number without specifying the time interval seems pretty slimy.

Am I missing something?
Posted by Free Lunch]]> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 19:15:02 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Some Old Nobodaddy Logged In]]> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 19:01:10 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Mister G]]> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:31:50 -0700 The Stranger
Go have a look at Harold Evans' Good Times, Bad Times regarding Murdoch's attempts to control the London Times' editorial content once he bought it. Better still, go find a copy of Tim Crouse's The Boys on the Bus (not too hard, since it's still in print as a frequently-required text for journalism courses), see what the situation was circa 1972 in accurate reporting vs. publishers' agendas...and then reflect on how little has changed in four decades.

Posted by DonServo]]> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:25:35 -0700 The Stranger Posted by avocado]]> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:49:49 -0700 The Stranger
Joe: You rock!


Posted by Fizgig]]> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:21:24 -0700 The Stranger Posted by avocado]]> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:51:08 -0700 The Stranger
The Seattle Times, like Faux News, claims to be objective and unbiased. And like Faux News, they are lying weasels. I don't care if they want to shill for conservative causes. I only care that they claim to be unbiased when they shill for conservative candidates. They just took a giant shit all over their claim to be an objective neutral news source.
Posted by Reverse Polarity]]> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:19:54 -0700 The Stranger
Besides the fact that there are two very different business models at work here.

Before you accuse folks of hypocrisy, you might want to use things like logic & reason. It makes you look far less stupid.
Posted by Some Old Nobodaddy Logged In]]> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:12:29 -0700 The Stranger
But, hey, thanks. Nice try.
Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:38:59 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Mister G]]> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:36:35 -0700 The Stranger
A. The Times has made itself into a partisan paper (at least for the year), or

B. The Times is tinkering with the machinery of self-government for commercial gain?

In the letter they tout option B, but it is unclear to me why I should despise them less for it.
Posted by High Federalist]]> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:33:02 -0700 The Stranger
I'm sure all of the Times' subscribers in Bellevue and Snohomish care a whole lot about Joe's race.
Posted by sevenless]]> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:31:02 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Keister Button]]> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:23:10 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Senor Guy]]> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:20:58 -0700 The Stranger Posted by mikethehammer]]> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:19:32 -0700 The Stranger Posted by MacCrocodile]]> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:07:34 -0700 The Stranger
And they ran a "vote McKenna" ad?

I'm mixed up now.
Posted by Ipso Facto]]> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:07:16 -0700 The Stranger against R-74 is a "conservative campaign".

And now The Seattle Times Company is extorting money from marriage equality proponents to attain equal exposure for their message.
Posted by Ipso Facto]]> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:54:25 -0700 The Stranger