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The Seattle Weekly government in exile launched its website today and has promised to continue posting to it until the people rise up and give them their paper back. Anyone pining for the city's other weekly and its lovable cast of characters circa the Bronze Age through about a year ago should head over to Crosscut immediately. We'll see you back here when you've had your fill.

--Chuck Klosterman in Esquire: It has now been five days since Britney Spears became Xavier McDaniel.

In Seattlest's little egg of grey matter, every news item is connected to another, bigger, news item. We can't help ourselves. So when we see that the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild is going to settle with the Seattle Times for pay raises of $0.00 for the next two years, we have to connect it to something else, and in this case that something else is the Joint Operating Agreement that binds the Seattle Times and the P-I (did we say "Sculpture Park" in the headline? We meant "JOA"). In our mind the Seattle Times has been throwing fights for as long as we can remember in order to sustain the losses necessary to end the JOA and look all the more wretched in front of a Joint Operating Agreement arbitrator. That they appear to be pretty adamant in this contract situation is a sign that that campaign is over, and we'll find out sometime next year whether it succeeded or failed. Alternately, the newspaper guild is taking a dive so as to not allow the Seattle Times to continue hammering the P-I and the arbitrator with their poor little newspaper routine.

In yesterday's Sunday edition Eric Pryne dropped his first article on the Joint Operating Agreement between the Seattle Times and the (more youthful and urban, apparently) P-I since he took over the beat from the independent contractor Bill Richards.

Well, it was nice having the Post Intelligencer around for as long as we did. We're very much in favor of two-paper towns (two dailies, two weeklies, whatever) because we like to think that they keep each other honest. The P-I has been trending a bit to the left lately (is that true?) and it would have been great to see two major papers on opposite ends of the political spectrum in Seattle, but alas... Our media consolidation radar is pinging like crazy after we read today that the Seattle Times will not be renewing the contract of the outside freelancer who was covering the Joint Operating Agreement between the Times and the P-I.

-The contract that gives reporter Bill Richards free reign to report on the Joint Operating Agreement between the Seattle Times and the Post Intelligencer is set to expire at the end of December, Editor and Publisher reports. Richards claims he has not been informed whether he'll be renewed.

We go on and on about how great it is that Seattle has two strong alternative weekly papers. Ok, maybe not "on and on", but we've said it at least a few times. Once for sure. We're saying it now: It's great that Seattle has two strong alternative weekly papers. What we have probably been a little quieter about is that fact that our city is also served by two strong daily papers and, truth be told, Seattlest might link to a story from either the Seattle Times or the Post Intelligencer's from time to time. Every day. Several times every day, actually, and rarely are their praises sung around here. Praising the PI just doesn't get you the same points that talking up The Stranger does in Seattlest's circles.