Back in September, to great fanfare, well to some fanfare, to a Ryan Blethen column at least, The Seattle Times announced their great, their initiative, to have a conversation on how to fix everything wrong with King County, Washington State, and the Federal government. They called it, “Just Fix It.” And while they’re still cranking out editorials in an attempt to prove how much they hate state workers and people who rely on government services, their brilliant idea has stopped updating. The last piece in this series is from November (I think, it’s not organized chronologically, exactly).
Now, projects everywhere fall by the wayside. And if this project about how it’ll be simple to fix all of our problems turns out too difficult to maintain, well fine: I had pretty low expectations of it from the start. But they’re still promoting it at the top of Editorials and Opinion page on their website.
If Seattle Times wants to fix something, they should start by fixing their telemarketing. I received a response from the FCC today to my formal complaint against Seattle Times for violating the “Do Not Call” law. If ST’s marketing department doesn’t fix their call center, the federal government will fix them.
P.S., Are you starting to understand why the Seattle Times doesn’t like government regulation? Especially when they, themselves, are breaking the law.
There is one in this morning’s paper. And there have been others over the last month IIRC. I think the ST just doesn’t have the whole interwebs thing figured out yet, so their on-line index is incomplete.
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Is the paper editorial branded with “Just Fix It”? Online, the editorial doesn’t say anything about it being part of their series. I assumed they’d forgot about it altogether, and forgot to take the header down.
The Just Fix It column is the brainchild of a guy who grew up in the news business and still can’t figure out how to make it a going concern without massive government subsidies. And he wants us to believe he’s smart enough to actually have useful suggestions on how to fix the public sector where he has exactly zero experience?
One of the most bizarre notions of the Republican party (where there is no shortage of notions vying for that title) is the one where the extraordinarily complex public sector, which is vastly different from the private sector, is best run by people who don’t understand it and have no experience working in it.
@3 – Yes, there is a text box with “Just Fix It” in big type embedded in the editorial.