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Seattle has its own flavor. It's an American city, sure, but it's its own city, with obsessions, neuroses, and pathologies that are uniquely Seattle in character. Seattlest loves that about Seattle. There are some personalities that have gained national prominence that are either from this city or not but are seen to have characteristics that personify the city. Michael Jackson is not one of those people. Regardless of how many times The Stranger puts him on the cover or however many column inches they devote to him, Seattle will never be a MJ town. Thankfully. So Stranger, please, stop. Enough with the King of Pop. We stopped caring years ago. He stopped being relevant to American culture years ago. Despite that, we are still awash in national coverage and the last thing we need is another cover story by one of the alternative weeklies on Michael f'ing Jackson.
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Except we are going to discuss the rest of the book. There's the best reporting that exists on the current weirdness at ConWorks (notwithstanding Seattlest's coverage) to discuss. But that's enough. Concerning the ombudsman that now comments on the issue from the table of contents: Stranger, A. Birtch was funny and was effectively reaching out to readers who you may not connect that well with and then you moved him to the contents page and that was going okay although it seemed to work better when it was tiny print in the back. Now this kid you've got doing it...this kid doesn't reach out to anyone else. He doesn't connect with anyone you're currently missing and it seems kind of forced. Thumbs down on the kid ombudsman.
How can the Seattle Weekly show its face on the newsstand after such a going over inside The Stranger? Well, they can show it by keeping on keepin' on, which is what they do. Seattle Weekly does an incredible job of appearing like it's produced by a gang of effective old hippies in a shack somewhere, like the guys at the Zoo. They keep churning.
The 'Ancient Seattle' cover article is great stuff. We need this kind of reporting so that us kids can know what we're tearing down in this city in our fervor to build it up. Or that's how we see them seeing us sometimes. It is an interesting piece and should be read by everyone and more than that it's the kind of article that you may want to keep around for awhile and read again in ten or twenty years.
The Weekly is running a Seattle public schools article that is apparently required by some unwritten publishing code this week as everyone's got at least one article on the subject (except Seattlest, but it's coming), which is great and we think that this is an issue that Seattle keeps under the carpet where it doesn't belong. Mossback is about the legal wrestling between the two dailies and Seattlest has to wholeheartedly agree with Knute Berger's opening:
Let's get one thing straight: As a newspaperman, I think the world is better off with more newspaper people than fewer—which puts me in a very small minority in terms of public opinion.
We hear that, Knute. Seattlest feels ya.
The hippies in the hut, though, just give off an air of needing to get out of the hut a bit more. Besides 'Ancient Seattle' there's not a lot to inspire in there. We're going to have go with The Stranger again.
We commented last week that the Seattle Weekly website needed work. Well, the design hasn't changed overnight, but apparently someone's listenting to us. The Weekly added this great blog page which includes Seattlest. And we're so young! Note to whoever is responsible for that page: Do your hippie bosses know about this?
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