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PI‘s Joel Connelly disses the Times:
Our competition writes about itself so much to have spawned a delightful joke. Q: How many Seattle Times reporters does it take to change a light bulb? A: Six, one to change the bulb and the other five to write about how they did it.
Christopher Frizzelle was The Stranger's print editor, and first joined the staff in 2003. He was the editor-in-chief from 2007 to 2016, and edited the story by Eli Sanders that won a 2012 Pulitzer... More by Christopher Frizzelle
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Don’t forget the obligatory front page full-color photo of that one reporter looking sadly and/or wistfully at the lightbulb while the other reporters linger off-focus in the background.
It was groundbreaking in 1979, and it still works on Fairview.
Connelly can be as snarky as he wants, but those six Times reporters still have jobs.
Each of them would of course drive their single occupancy vehicle to the changing and then spend the bulk of their article bitching about traffic.
For now, Comte – for now…..
Readers of SLOG,
As we all know, there are stages of grief. It appears that Mr. Connelly is entering the anger stage. He is losing his job so cut him some slack.
But I must say, I hope the print P-I can go gracefully.
At least the paper folding has an upside in that this blowhard won’t have a mass media forum anymore
Joel Connelly losing his job is one of the few upsides of this whole thing.
If this is what passes for humor in the P.I., it’s no wonder they are folding.
The first time I heard that joke, it was about The Stranger.
Oy, Fucking Connelly, what a fat piece of shit, way to take this to the lowest level by writing snarky about the competition…on shit 30 years old.
Christ, yes, history is important, but Connelly is entrenched in the past. He symbolizes exactly what’s wrong with papers: They can’t move forward.
Is there any chance that the Times will fire some of their writers and hire former PI ones?
I only regret that Joel won’t be around to provoke ECB into more of her mindless tirades. Hey, Savage (or whoever) Joel would bring much needed professional credentials to your staff. Maybe you should make arrangements to replace ECB.
In fact, there might be some qualified music reporters to replace Grandy at the same time.
With the absence of Connolley and Jamieson to bitch about, the Stranger’s SLOG output will be reduced by roughly 35 percent.
@12,
I don’t think Grandy is bad, but the Stranger could do a lot worse than hiring Gene Stout (or Neil Modie, David Horsey, Art Thiel, Kathy Mulady…..)
Joel should be happy that Washington now has a Deathy with Dignity law. Too bad he opposed it so strongly: it might come in handy for him soon.
For Connelly to complain that the Times self-congratulates too much and then to spend the rest of the column going on and on about how noble and amazing the P-I is seems a little silly.
I’m not going to miss Connelly’s column.
I’m a bad, bad man. Please don’t read my column.
@11, yes.
There is also a chance that Kennedy was killed by J. Edgar Hoover, that an asteroid will hit the earth today, and that, someday, I might get laid.
Carry on.
They could just send one link in response to that
http://www.esd.wa.gov/uibenefits/index.p…
Joel Fucking Connelly.
@12: Yeah, like the Stranger is desperately trying to steal Crosscut’s readership. Joel will make a fine addition to the unpaid Crosscut staff and ECB will go on being, well, ECB.