Slog tipper Charles writes:

I’m a student at the UW and I thought you might want to see these piece-of-shit endorsements for Dino Rossi and against I-1000 made by our piece-of-shit student newspaper, The Daily. Normally this would be irrelevant, but the Daily has a potential (idiot) readership of 20,000 and the gubernatorial race is close enough that something like this could actually tip it one way or another.

The Daily‘s reasoning on Rossi:

In tough economic times, we need a candidate who can balance the budget and Dino is our guy. He’s smart, he’s savvy and he had the know-how to help Gary Locke get out of economic anguish in 2003.

For four years under Christine Gregoire, the budget was balanced. But the viaduct has remained in its status quo and the Sonics are gone.

And on I-1000:

Instead of focusing on ending life prematurely, the focus should be on providing care that increases the quality of life during those last months.

I’m guessing there are more than a few dissenting UW students and alumni in the Slog mob, so I’ll save you all the trouble of digging this up yourself: here’s the email address for Daily editor Sarah Jeglum.

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68 replies on “UW Daily Endorses… Rossi?”

  1. I read the daily this morning. By read, I meant looked at it to make sure it wasn’t of any actual value before using it to clean up a caustic spill. As far as I can tell, that is its best and only use.

  2. I stopped reading the Daily years ago when their April Fool’s edition was about a fictional, but very real sounding, rapist on the Evergreen State College campus.

  3. I’m a current reporter and former section editor for the UW Daily and I have to say that these two endorsements make me ashamed to call myself a part of the university student newspaper.

  4. @53: WTF is going on there if they’ve decided to endorse Rossi? Can’t you stage a coup or something and make the Daily better? (and get rid of all the empty space around the articles. It doesn’t look good, it just makes it look empty. All you need to do is make the font they’re printed in a skoch bigger and it would look better.)

  5. The Daily has been terrible for at least the past six years, probably longer. I remember that the only section my classmates ever paid attention to was the Sudoku page.

  8. As a UW alum and a Daily alum, I still have an amusing memory of sitting in the Daily newsroom working on an article, watching while the rich-kid douchebags who passed for Editor-in-Chief and News Editor spent a good half-hour passing a football back and forth, trying to come up with a topic for a staff editorial as press time approached:

    “What do you wanna write about?”

    “I dunno, what do you wanna write about?”

    This was in early 2001, when, like, y’know, there wasn’t much happening in the news worth reading, much less writing about.

    (/sarcasm)

    True, Teh Daily has launched the careers of some brilliant people–David Horsey, Charles Cross, John Keister–but all too often it’s been more of a high school hangover than a crucible for great future journalists. Oh well.

    Long live Ruckus!

  10. The design chief perpetually looks like an Ave rat and markets her vagina like one too. She was doing some good stuff until her pride went to her head and the Daily started looking like a high school yearbook.

    Excuse the bluntness of this post, I was just writing with the same lack of class the Daily exhibits.

  15. huskypride:

    to know what i dress like and how i act means you must personally know me. the fact that you would publish such mean and intentionally hurtful statements about someone you actually know in a public and anonymous forum says a lot about YOUR character.

    i hope you feel better about yourself, finally sinking down to the same “lack of class the Daily exhibits.”

    now if you’ll excuse me, i have to go flaunt my vagina on the ave in my rather homeless attire.

  16. I’m actually at a journalist conference right now in Kansas City for The Daily and I showed copy’s of our paper to 3 different design editors at large daily’s across the country, the most notable being the design chief at the Arizona Republic. They all said that our paper was one of the most progressive in terms of design philosophy for a college paper that they have seen in a long time, and called our design chief “visionary”. Another design advisor for Iowa State took copies to use in his seminar about what a front page should look like when white space and packaging are properly used. If you know anything about design, you know that’s not a problem with The Daily.

  17. I’m actually at a journalist conference right now in Kansas City for The Daily and I showed copy’s of our paper to 3 different design editors at large daily’s across the country, the most notable being the design chief at the Arizona Republic. They all said that our paper was one of the most progressive in terms of design philosophy for a college paper that they have seen in a long time, and called our design chief “visionary”. Another design advisor for Iowa State took copies to use in his seminar about what a front page should look like when white space and packaging are properly used. If you know anything about design, you know that’s not a problem with The Daily.

  18. I’m actually at a journalist conference right now in Kansas City for The Daily and I showed copy’s of our paper to 3 different design editors at large daily’s across the country, the most notable being the design chief at the Arizona Republic. They all said that our paper was one of the most progressive in terms of design philosophy for a college paper that they have seen in a long time, and called our design chief “visionary”. Another design advisor for Iowa State took copies to use in his seminar about what a front page should look like when white space and packaging are properly used. If you know anything about design, you know that’s not a problem with The Daily.

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