It not a bad guess to presume the P-I will end up becoming a liberal tabloid-style newspaper or an online-only publication at some point. Today's Joel Connelly's column on our tight local race for Governor hastens the move toward the former with this line:
It's apparent that this kind of crap won't work.
Not sure they teach that one at journalism school.
Posted by Eric Earling at February 15, 2008 07:20 AM | Email ThisAt our house, I am constantly in debate with my seventh grader regarding global warming. While I don't try to tell her the answer, I point her to different facts her GW science teacher isn't.
Folks, it is an uphill battle. Point your friends to the following web page http://climatedebatedaily.com/ .
This page gives both sides. While the GW side is mostly emotion, maybe your friends will read a couple common sense articles, such as the latest fears in Canada of global freezing (not cooling) caused by a lazy sun not pumping out heat as sunspots as it has in the past. FYI, the sun is in a short term state of inactivity.
Posted by: swatter on February 15, 2008 08:07 AMThank you Christine Gregoire. You're a tip top leader.
Thank God I don't rely on our ferries.
Thank God it's election year- it's the first time since you've been in office that you haven't sought to raise taxes.
Posted by: Andy on February 15, 2008 08:39 AMJust part of the crassening of America, courtesy of liberalism. When I was growing up using a work like "crap" would get your mouth washed out with soap. The Rolling Stone's recording of "Let's Spend the Night Together" was bleeped on the radio.
Now it's entirely common to hear young women use the F-word.
We've come a long way, haven't we?
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on February 15, 2008 09:45 AM- Language: Whatever. I'm neither impressed nor offended.
- Substance: I agree with Connelly.
- Logic: Connelly doesn't support his claim, so the word "apparently" should be deleted. If he'd written, "I don't think this kind of crap will work", would you be happy?
Don't worry, the year is still young! There's still hope...
Posted by: SmallBusiness on February 15, 2008 10:06 AMNo. Most conservatives are used to being called all sorts of names by liberals. "Mouth breather" is pretty tame.
Now if you happen to be a Democrat and someone refers to your daughter as "pimping" well, that's another matter, isn't it?
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on February 15, 2008 10:52 AMCheck out the PI's website. THEY ALWAYS HAVE TWO OR MORE PICTURES OF FEMALE MODELS/STARS in the upper right hand corner, and often a few more in the "Day in Pictures" section and their new SPIed feature usual has a photo of a woman.
I say they are already trying to sex up their webpage. I'm not complaining, but it did seems a fairly tranparent use (objectification even) of these women to increase their corporate profits.
Posted by: Observer on February 15, 2008 12:07 PMIn the 15 yrs. that I've been reading both papers the only columnists with any writing talent have been Michelle Malkin and Alexander Cockburn. That is sad. Mike Hood over at BW is a gifted writer, albeit very misguided.
The course language seems to be part of a general drift into what I can only guess is an attempt by the PI editorial staff to pander to a "younger" demographic.
The overall dumbing down of the vocabulary in the PI seems to have begun in earnest with the inclusion of D. Parvaz. Her quasi-adolescent tone and style would perhaps be appropriate in a publication like the Stranger (or a college student publication), but is beneath the standards of a major urban daily - even if that daily is the PI.
Parvaz epitomizes crass - just a few gems from the sewer that is her professional vocabulary:
- Skank (along with "skanky" and "skankidity" whatever that means. "Skank" seeems to be a Parvaz favorite root word...)- Duh
- Yup (and the variant, "yep")
- Holy #$@?!
- "Christmas can really, truly suck"
- "why not just chill"
- "Are you freakin' kidding me?"
These are merely a few of the juvenile attempts at jounalism by Ms. Parvaz.
The P.I. - a real study in classy standards.
As far a change goes. I'm for change. Let's change the administration and legislaton houses in Olympia. It is time for change in Olympia.
Posted by: Snuffy on February 15, 2008 01:35 PMApparently one thing he's achieved is planting women in the front row of his campaign appearances who "faint" on cue. This news is just breaking. I know he pulled that stunt in Seattle. Evidently he repeats it constantly, right down to the same words. Does it get any better?
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on February 15, 2008 01:57 PMSometimes things got pretty silly on Mondays...
Posted by: Don Ward on February 15, 2008 02:13 PM#16 I totally agree with you on this.
Posted by: Duffman on February 15, 2008 02:38 PMIt shows Greg 43 and Rossi 41 and it was done by Washington Conservation Voters. It was a Democratic poll. Looking at the internals, they had to skew it to give Gregoire any kind of lead at all. This part was not in the WCV release for good reason. Rossi gets 89% of R's while Gregoire gets only 76% of D's. Rossi carries independents by 20%! They must have oversampled D's to keep Rossi out of the lead.
We can dismiss all of Connelly's nonsense about all the wonderful things Gregoire has done since the poll was taken in his own words: Joel's full of crap. If anything, she's more unpopular now than when the poll was taken.
She is in deep trouble. The only way I see her winning is if Obama blows everyone out--highly unlikely unless the whole country has shifted to an ideology like Sweden's in the last couple of years or if she can run an effective negative campaign against Rossi. The odds are against that too--the voters just don't like or trust her.
Posted by: besquared on February 15, 2008 04:52 PMThey've had funding for years and haven't produced a single vessel.
I just hope Rossi doesn't wimp out like Republicans so often do. Dino needs to use the ferry issue to demonstrate that Democrats can't manage their way out of a wet paper bag. Sometimes we are too nice for our own good.
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on February 15, 2008 05:14 PM