One of the big differences between bloggers like me and so-called real journalists like those at the Seattle Times, is that I tend to mix in generous amounts of editorializing with my reporting, whereas the dailies maintain a strict wall between editorial and news. Or so I’ve been told…
Dear Seattle voters: That must have felt good.
You finally took out your long-simmering resentment of Mayor Greg Nickels by shoving him aside in last week’s primary.
Yup, as far as news ledes go, you can’t get much more objective than that.
The Seattle Times is dedicated to proving anew every day that it’s not a newspaper.
I agree, Goldy. That’s awful. I don’t know Heffter, but I’m baffled that Brunner would put his byline on something like that.
Obama Bank Bailout Makes $11 Billion Profit
The Financial Times reports that taxpayers have made an $11 billion paper profit on the $25 billion the Treasury converted into Citibank equity a month ago. Citi shares are up 70% since then.
I predict this will be the next wingnut cause celebre! We can’t let the government make a profit on its investments in private banks, can we now? That’s socialism! Geithner oughta give that money back to Wall Street!
Westneat’s column yesterday was a joke too. Danny Boy put his toungue about four inches up Nickels’ ass. TOO fuckin’ funny.
Let me see if I understand what Goldy is saying. He’s saying because he found an example of editorializing in a newspaper, therefore, newspapers are no different than blogs. He’s basically saying one example does a rule make. I disagree with Goldy on this one.
A blog is nothing more than a glorified chatroom or a journal. It’s the online version of doodling on a Pee-Chee.
The only people who ever thought news media was objective was liberals, or that’s what they were telling people while they blatantly shilled for leftist causes anyway. Objective news media is a bigger myth than the Robbin Hood politics that Democrats subscribe to.
The question isn’t is the Time objective or not objective. The question is are blogs more politically motivated in what they report, and what they ignore? Let’s say a liberal Democrat, who was running for office against a Republican, was charged with getting sexual gratification from killing stray kittens. The Seattle Times would report the story. I don’t believe Goldy would.
@7
Did you forget your meds this morning?
@8
Do you believe Goldy would not report the story for fear of hurting the Democrat’s chances in the election?
That’s the issue.
much of mainstream press editorializes all the time by choosing not to report certain bodies of information, and by choosing not to question the assertions made by the people they dutifully quote.
I’m just surprised Goldstein thinks he’s a journalist of any kind.
I haven’t seen a single fact not cherry picked and out of context, a single quote not similarly qualified, or a single conclusion not fitting your self congratulatory conclusions, Goldstein.
Ugh, I hate the times. If I wanted to read an opinion I would read an Op-Ed section. They have been going downhill for a long time. When are they goining bankrupt again?
Emily is a terrible reporter and writer.
I remember the Seattle Times and P.I. reporting on Seattle City Councilman Richard McIver’s arrest on domestic violence charges, but I don’t remember HA covering it.
Hell,
The editorial board of the Tacoma News Tribune flat out lied yesterday. In an editorial about Jim McDermott’s Salmon Solutions and Planning Act they claimed Washington gets 20% of its electrical power from coal and that a straw man “many” “opponents of the dams brush off the carbon problem.”
Who are these supposed “many?” Five minutes with The Google and I found “many” groups have addressed the carbon issue and that Washington gets around 8% of its power from coal.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/.....52123.html
Troll @7,
I love kittens.
15 Goldy
You mean, in the “I get sexual gratification from killing them” way?
I mean, I love women. And my doctor says I’m getting much better.
@7, 9
Actually, the issue at hand is whether or not (or maybe to what degree) The Times is practicing objective journalism.
Thanks to your remark @7, your mental health has also become (not for the first time) an issue.
Troll,
“Let me see if I understand what Goldy is saying.”
That doesn’t seem likely….
“He’s saying because he found an example of editorializing in a newspaper, therefore, newspapers are no different than blogs.”
Nope…he didn’t say that.
“He’s basically saying one example does a rule make.”
Nuh-uh…he didn’t say that either.
“I disagree with Goldy on this one.”
How would you know? You haven’t a clue….
Oh…wait…you call yourself Troll! My bad.
lostinaseaofblue @ 11,
“I haven’t seen a single fact not cherry picked and out of context, a single quote not similarly qualified, or a single conclusion not fitting your self congratulatory conclusions, Goldstein.”
(* Snicker *)
Not surprising…you Wingdings aren’t exactly known for your ability to even identify facts, let alone understand them in context.
Troll @ 13,
“I remember the Seattle Times and P.I. reporting on Seattle City Councilman Richard McIver’s arrest on domestic violence charges, but I don’t remember HA covering it.”
First…that you imply that HA should have “covered it” highlights your ignorance of what Goldy wrote in this post.
Secondly, you should ask your mommy about a how to use the search function to find things like this and this and this and this.
@20
I didn’t say HA didn’t cover the McIver story, I said I don’t remember HA covering it. Big difference.
@21
Just too damn funny. So if you can’t recall it, it didn’t happen?
I know your leaders seem to fool the press with that one, but as you pointed out, this ain’t the press.
@21
You really should do a simple search before you make idiotic statements like that.
@23
Why should Troll do any searches simple or otherwise when he/she/it(?) never gets anything correct anyway?
I think that they’ve being spewing opinions in Seattle Times “reporting” for so long they don’t even realize they’re doing so.
Since getting the facts right has been a very low priority for them of late, this has become the crutch they lean on.
Troll,
“I didn’t say HA didn’t cover the McIver story, I said I don’t remember HA covering it.”
OMGLAMO! I hope Lee sees fit to memorialize this little nugget of Wingding lunacy.
“Big difference.”
Indeed! That would be the difference between incompetence and inanity.
What the fuck are you talking about? A blog is NOT a newspaper. Not a general news source. You’re infantilism is really getting tiresome. Get caught with a kitten so you can be sent to jail. Maybe you won’t hurt yourself there.