Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of an ancient strike against one Seattle newspaper that no longer exists (the Seattle Post-Intelligencer) and another (the Seattle Times) that does still exist, but in a form much shrunken from its pre-strike days.

To mark this anniversary, the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild, the union that led the strike, offered a blog post updating readers on the current feeling toward those journalists who crossed the picket lines a decade ago. Apparently, the feeling toward them has changed over the course of ten years.

A decade ago the feeling was “anger.”

Now it’s “just pity.”

Maybe in another decade, when no one can even remember the business model that Seattle journalists were on strike against in 2000, all will be forgiven?

Eli Sanders was The Stranger's associate editor. His book, "While the City Slept," was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He once did this and once won...

12 replies on “Still Not Over Seattle’s Newspaper Strike”

  2. Eli,
    The Stranger lives on…paying poverty wages, financed by booze, cigarette and porno ads; now there’s a business model. Try raising a family on that financial and moral foundation.

  6. For Matt’s sake he was spared the learning experience of scabbing and can continue with his naive posturing. With a name like Lubey no wonder he is so quick to bend over for the corporate overlords.

  7. It wasn’t just journalists on strike. Circulation and advertising walked too. And in greater numbers than the newsroom. Ditto what DOUG said.

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