Someone who seems to think he's Michael Kinsley responded to our cherry-picked quote from Kinsley's talk at the City Club Year in Review event. Watch as we eviscerate his feeble appeal to a coherent "truth." We've seen Rashomon, Kinsley.

I never said (at the City Club event) that bloggers in general are distasteful or that they don't have the right to say anything they want, unpleasant or otherwise.

In fact, I said the precise opposite. I was describing some comments about me, and they WERE unpleasant. But of course they have the right. And, as I said, blogging nets out a positive force in journalism despite some creeps.

Thanks for letting me clear that up. It's a sore point, obviously.

(UPDATE: Apparently Michael Kinsley did not call blogging in general "extremely distasteful." That makes the remainder of this post less interesting. We don't advise paying much attention to it.) more ›

BLOG-GAZING: We're going to The Pitch tonight, and as of this second, there's room for one more person on the guest list. The pitch this time is: "An established newspaper will never be able to provide better hyperlocal coverage than a well-managed neighborhood blog," and panel participants include West Seattle Blog's Tracy Record, the P-I's Big Blog's Curt Milton (we see Monica Guzman's on the guest list, too), and last but certainly not least if you ask him, CHS's lovely and talented Justin Carder. more ›

According to Slog, the Seattle Times is about to lay off 200 employees (at least 45 of them from the newsroom). As a friend noted, it's not entirely surprising. Print media far and wide are bowing to the evolution of demand for media. This Seattlest, for one, only ever touches a newspaper anymore if it's in a bin at our local coffeeshop. And, even then, it's to pull out the crossword. We get all our news online and reckon we're not alone. more ›