Sound Politics: Ruling in JOA lawsuit

June 30, 2005

Ruling in JOA lawsuit

The State Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the Seattle Times in its dispute with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer over the joint operating agreement.

The Times article is here. The P-I article here. The ruling here.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at June 30, 2005 09:44 AM | Email This

Comments

1. Adieu, Pravda-Izvestia!

Posted by: Saltherring on June 30, 2005 10:07 AM

2. May the PI die a quick death.

Posted by: swassociates on June 30, 2005 11:48 AM

3. Bye Bye PI.

The only reason the PI is in business is that 22 years ago they farmed out their printing to their competitor, between the two of them they have not been able to generate enough circulation or revenue to effectively sustain two papers. Perhaps better content could have helped them in increasing their readership, but alas...

Posted by: SouthernRoots on June 30, 2005 12:00 PM

4. From a Seattle media consumer perspective, seems kind of irrelevant to me. They are practically carbon copies of each other.

Posted by: BananaLand(aka Iguana) on June 30, 2005 12:28 PM

5. I remember when the JOA was put into effect. Many (myself included) opposed it at the time, because there were parties interested in buying the P-I, but not at the price that Hearst was demanding.

The JOA allowed Hearst to avoid any sort of accountability to the market, then and since, as they raked off the 40% cut they got from the JOA, regardless of how poorly the P-I did.

Posted by: ewaggin on June 30, 2005 01:04 PM

6. I always thought the whole arrangement was lame, to begin with.

Posted by: Michele on June 30, 2005 01:57 PM

7. and CNN is laying off 'chuncks' of employees in Atlanta. So what? All three together don't rate two hoots and a holler.

Posted by: JDH on June 30, 2005 02:20 PM

8. I need a cigarette...

Posted by: South County on June 30, 2005 03:26 PM

9. It is ashame Seattle's two papers are left and lefter. It will be nice to lose lefter.

Posted by: frank on June 30, 2005 04:28 PM

10. It is ashame Seattle's two papers are left and lefter. It will be nice to lose lefter.

Posted by: frank on June 30, 2005 04:29 PM

11. At first I was sorry for the people who will be out of their jobs. Then I remembered they are mostly Journalism School graduates. Well, from the editorials I read on just about everything, it seems these J. School grads are experts in all things. They opine about nuclear power, foreign relations, poltics, medical research, ethics, physics, space exploration, engineering, sofware, business practices, etc...

They should have no problem getting jobs with such a wide and varied knowledge base and a degree in journalism.

Fries?

Posted by: Huey on June 30, 2005 05:24 PM

12. Huey--correct.
It's too bad, but just a function of their own products and views.

People aren't buying the tilt anymore. Story lines removed from reality or polished for p.c. goals. Why read it? Chunks left out. No follow-ups or deep digging. Everything sanitized like reading a redacted government intelligence report.

We are tired of the 'blacked out' things we suspect, we see, we intuitvely feel or we read on the internet. It's their own doing. Who cares. They don't get it. I don't think they want to, either.

Posted by: Jimmie-howya-doin on June 30, 2005 10:58 PM