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riversedge

(73,186 posts) Wed Oct 30, 2024, 07:54 PM Oct 30

Family-owned Seattle Times says "Hell, Yes!" in endorsing Harris, throwing shade at owners of WashPost...

Family-owned Seattle Times says "Hell, Yes!" in endorsing Harris, throwing shade at owners of WashPost (and LAT and USA Today) for recent decisions not to weigh in editorially. h/t @martinkaste

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Family-owned Seattle Times says "Hell, Yes!" in endorsing Harris, throwing shade at owners of WashPost... (Original Post) riversedge Oct 30 OP

Irony is dead... regnaD kciN Oct 30 #1

Welcome to Planet Earth, Seattle Times. Aristus Oct 30 #2

regnaD kciN

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1. Irony is dead...

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Oct 30, 2024, 08:44 PM

Oct 30

The Seattle Times (a.k.a. the Blethen Family Newsletter, a.k.a. the Seattle Fishwrap) started this whole thing, in an even worse manner, back in 2000, when the editorial department was finishing its endorsement of Al Gore, only to have publisher Frank Blethen overrule them and order them to endorse Dubya instead. For them to be patting themselves on the back this time around, without acknowledging that they started the problem, is the height of chutzpah.

Aristus

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2. Welcome to Planet Earth, Seattle Times.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Oct 30, 2024, 11:19 PM

Oct 30

Seattle Times was the conservative newspaper before it became the only newspaper. I rarely read it.

I used to deliver the Seattle Post-Intelligencer back in high school. I kept back a paper every day for myself and read it from front to back over breakfast. I was one well-informed high school student.

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