http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/11/08/hey-seattle-times-howd-that-political-advertising-experiment-work-out-for-you Comments On: Hey <i>Seattle Times</i>...? How'd That Political Advertising Experiment Work Out for You? by Goldy 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) Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Thu, 23 May 2013 01:30:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by zachd]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:41:38 -0800 The Stranger
Have you ever heard of the internet? The answer to the county-level part of your question is trivially easy to locate. Here's 2008. For 2004, you'll have to do a bit of elementary school arithmetic (if you're capable of that).

Getting down to a finer split ("the suburbs", "cities") wouldn't be easy, but if you're willing to pay me $50/hour I'd give it a shot.
Posted by N in Seattle]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:02:09 -0800 The Stranger Posted by ian]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:46:25 -0800 The Stranger http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2…). Pretty cool stuff. I especially like the headline, since they could have easily spun the headline in a different way. In other words, while there may be plenty of reporter bias found in various parts of the paper, this suggests otherwise. I agree with the last paragraph of @16, there are still plenty of good reporters working there, but management is a bit nuts.
Posted by Ross]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:33:21 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Michael H.]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:43:44 -0800 The Stranger
Posted by beef rallard]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:52:19 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Hutch]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:26:53 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:11:34 -0800 The Stranger
We called R-74 and the governor's race election night because the outcomes were obvious. Of course, it's possible we could be wrong, but would require some inexplicable late voter trend.

So the Times is just being over-cautious on R-74.
Posted by Goldy]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 10:48:07 -0800 The Stranger
So, the Guardian is jumping the gun, declaring results that haven't been announced yet, and the Times is waiting, appropriately, for the official announcement (while also providing updated count figures) -- you know, so they don't end up "Dewey defeating Truman" the whole damn thing. Jesus. No wonder newspapers are dying. Everybody just believes everything they read online, even in newspapers from "half a world away."

The Times's advertising scheme was fucking bullshit, and every reporter who works there is as pissed about it as the rest of us. But it still doesn't change the fact those reporters are still working incredibly damn hard to do a good, unbiased job with their work. Keep that in mind while you're canceling your subscriptions. When the state has no newspapers left and all we have to rely on is the fucking Guardian, it's going to be a bad day for knowledge.
Posted by Meg]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 09:54:18 -0800 The Stranger Are there numbers so we can compare McKenna (2012) versus Rossi's performances (2008, 2004) in:

King County
The suburbs
The cities

Changes up or down, etc.

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 08:55:36 -0800 The Stranger
My biggest complaint about the paper is that its publisher and editorial board neither defend nor represent the interests and values of the city named in their banner. They routinely endorse candidates Seattleites uniformly reject, they defend shipping Boeing jobs to South Carolina, and they attempt to undermine an arena in Sodo in the service of building one in Bellevue. Etc.

That aside, the Seattle Times' problems are its own. It's Frank Blethen who gambled the family jewels with his foolish venture into Maine... and lost. Yeah, the economy and business model went south, but if the paper hadn't been leveraged to the hilt it could have survived this downturn without the newsroom cutbacks that have made the paper even less relevant.

Frank likes to present his paper as a public good. Maybe so. But if so, he's been a terrible steward of it.
Posted by Goldy]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 08:51:47 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Fnarf]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 08:38:04 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Mike]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 08:35:23 -0800 The Stranger Posted by gator bait]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 08:32:56 -0800 The Stranger Posted by cheakamus]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 08:19:49 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Sir Vic]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 08:17:41 -0800 The Stranger Posted by cheakamus]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 08:17:40 -0800 The Stranger Posted by janele]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 08:16:13 -0800 The Stranger Posted by ian]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 08:00:56 -0800 The Stranger Posted by MRM]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 07:41:48 -0800 The Stranger Posted by DOUG.]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 07:33:15 -0800 The Stranger
This newspaper is not connecting with its community and has not for some time. The political ads are only part of the betrayal of trust story. Some journalists have bedded with the government agencies they are actually supposed to bird-dog. When that happened, I wrote the whole lot of them off. Too bad, because I do believe some reporters there are ethical. I hope they can find work elsewhere because this rag's days are numbered and Blethen and his YES advisors have only themselves to blame.

Posted by Fizgig]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 07:30:35 -0800 The Stranger
Seattle Met had a good piece recently about the continuing plunge in circulation, leaving them off the top 25 newspapers list for the first time.
http://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-profi…

Posted by moretent]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 07:00:43 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Why are there cars?]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 06:34:57 -0800 The Stranger