Crosscut News Site Gets Locals Buzzing Blogging

Mossback Returns! This is the most salient news item we see in the Seattle Times story on David Brewster's Crosscut, an online regional news site slated to hit the e-streets on March 12.

[Brewster] has enlisted two other Seattle Weekly veterans to work on the venture.

Former Weekly Managing Editor Chuck Taylor will be Crosscut's editor. Knute "Skip" Berger [aka Mossback], the Weekly's former editor-in-chief, will write for the publication.

Brewster, who will be publisher, said Crosscut's content will be a mix of original journalism, blogs, material derived from the mainstream media and other sources, and forums and other interactive features.

Apparently Brewster is getting inspiration from this site. Over at the Slog -- unable to fathom that people of all ages, with views different from their own, use the internet, too -- immediate derision reigns (and rains, for that matter). For balance, we checked in with former Seattle Weeklyist Philip Dawdy, who interrupted his Zyprexa chronicling to say:

If I were pulling together a news media project online in Seattle, those are two people who I'd want involved at the start. They are excellent editors, widely experienced as editors and reporters, and they give Brewster's project instant credibility.

To which we still say: MOSSBACK? AAAIIIIIEEEEE!

With love, of course. Now that Joel Connelly is picking up the Mossback slack, we realize we didn't appreciate what we had. Come back, Skip. All is forgiven.