Not to belabor my previous point, but there’s nothing technically inaccurate about my headline describing this one: “Egypt’s triumph in the streets cannot allow recycled military rule.”

(Oh… and note to Seattle Times editorial board: good on you for boldly coming out in support of democracy and all that, and I don’t particularly begrudge you the opportunity to editorialize on such a major news event. But, when it comes to our policies toward Egypt, it’s not like folks are taking their cues from you here in this Washington, let alone the other one, so if you don’t really have anything original to add to conversation, why bother?)

19 replies on “Seattle Times Opposes Recycling”

  4. @1, yes, but I think of the Seattle Times as a body, if you will, it moves around, picking things up and putting them back down, often inoffensively, often very decently covering ground no other media outlet bothers to any more.

    The Editorial Board, on the other hand, is made of heirs and sycophants whose goal is purely digestive, and it’s got irritable bowel syndrome. It farts or it queefs, and not much more. It’s the part nobody pays attention to, the part readers pretend simply isn’t there.

    And Goldy, bless him, perches in the Times’ perineum to miss no delicious detail of each gassy eruption. “Hey kids”, he shouts, “the Blethens had beans for dinner last night – smells like there was some bacon in there, too!”

  7. No, you’re right. Nobody’s taking any cues from the Seattle Times. But if you think they’re taking them from The Stranger instead, you’re out of your fucking mind.

  11. I agree with Gus.

    When I saw the headline I thought I would trundle over here and dish some unsolicited free advice since Goldy appears to think that media watching is a nessisary role for bloggers.

    How about you roll shit shit up into a weekly Seattle Times Editorial piñata, a regular feature for people to pile on. Bitching about stupid things those dunderheads spew every time they post something is tiresome.
    Ryan Blethen doesn’t have the mental capacity to form a basic argument. We all know, and it is true that the apple that fell from that tree did not travel so far that it cast its own shadow.

    In spite of the charmless ownership train wreck there are more than a couple able reporters toiling away, stepping around columnists, and over Ryan burning ants with a magnifying glass. Some people at the paper of record are worthy of something better than a broad brush.

    Gus is right, every time the Ed board farts you don’t have to run over and smell it.

  12. Goldy, you are too fabulous ever to pity, so I’ll try to work on empathizing for you. I may wish you’d direct your mania elsewhere, but you’re the worker bee here, I’m just in the peanut gallery.

    (Canuck, you’re too kind as always! And 5280, I admire how you don’t pee on our legs and tell us it’s raining…you just plain pee on our legs.)

  13. You might try a new spin. What, with Mubarak gone, will the Egyptian military do when Israeli jets blast away at Iran’s nuclear power plants? And if the Egyptian population will demand their military join in a war against Israel?

  15. Mr. Goldy is working the same troll as Erica C. Barnett when she was at the Stranger.

    How’d that media navel gazing work out for her again?

  17. How about we settle it? Put the Stranger’s page views up against the Times.

    I didn’t think so. Keep preaching to the choir.

    Perhaps the stranger should take a look at the sad sorry state of its own “news department” before casting pebbles.

  18. Rake @17,

    So you think that a paper should be judge by the quantity of its page views rather than the quality of its writing? That just strikes me as kinda odd.

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