The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has announced that tomorrow will be the last day of publication for the print edition.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer will roll off the presses for the last time Tuesday, ending a 146-year run.
The Hearst Corp. announced Monday that it would stop publishing the newspaper, Seattle’s oldest business, and cease delivery to more than 117,600 weekday readers.
The company, however, said it will maintain seattlepi.com, making it the nation’s largest daily newspaper to shift to an entirely digital news product.
And just like that, it’s gone. It’ll be interesting to see what kind of on-line publication will continue. It’s not like having fewer reporters in Olympia has been a good thing.
UPDATE (Goldy):
Last night I went to check “tomorrow’s” headlines in the Seattle P-I, and my usual bookmark produced and error page that resolved to the URL: “disaster.seattlepi.nwsource.com”. I guess that was an omen.
And the Obama depression takes another company down.
Troll @1,
An intelligent reader, having no knowledge of your previous comments, would understandably assume you were being sarcastic. You’ve become a parody of a parody of your parody of yourself.
It would be nice, considering the momentous news, if folks tried to stay on topic here, and rather diving off into instant trolling.
@1: I’d more say that this was inevitable for years, but spurred by the Bush depression.
@2
You are right. I think this is a sad day. So I guess this means the clock is now ticking on the Seattle Times, and its eventual move to an online-only format.
Good article from the NYT.
“As Cities Go From Two Papers to One, Talk of Zero”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03.....apers.html
And I think there’s actually one scenario scarier than having a no newspaper town, and that’s having the government step in, under the guise of saving the newspaper industry, and setting up government-run, Soviet-era Pravdaesque newspapers.
I haven’t missed the P-I since my fishmonger switched to waxed paper and plastic bags.
What remains to be seen is whether the P-I, the Times or any old-school print daily will be able to conjure up Web-only business model that offers something like professional journalism while turning a profit.
How many of you realize that one of my favorite newspapers, the Weekly World News, stopped printing back in 2007? Betcha thought it was still out there, didn’t ya? Nope. It’s gone! Gone just like that guy’s leg which, after he accidentally chainsawed it off, it got up and hopped away. And yes, I once read that story in the WWN.
Troll,
The PI has been in trouble for at least the past three years. But don’t bother yourself with facts.
You told all we need to know about you with your choice of reading material. WWN???
Do you not tire of being publicly embarrassed?
As for the PI, I have always enjoyed it over the Times. In the past they were often much quicker at breaking a story online before the Times seemed to even know it was a story. I am going to miss Art Thiel and Jim Moore the most. I hope they catch on somewhere quickly.
FWIW, I wrote a DailyKos diary about the end of the P-I. Comments and recommendations welcome…
In defense of Troll, I have to say that the Weekly World News was probably the only checkstand publication worth reading. It never pretended to be serious and its stories were often hilarious. The same can’t be said for the Seattle Times.
I’ve just gotta have a newspaper in the morning, so just now I called the PI customer service number to get a subscription for the Times started on Wednesday. The recoring told me that the Times is automatically signing up all the PI subscribers. How thoughtful. But I bet some little ingrates will be ticked off.
Emily at 12:
Ingrates is harsh.
Look at it this way. There are Coca-Cola drinkers and Pepsi-Cola drinkers. I know I don’t drink Coke. There are Budweiser (ewww)drinkers and there are Miller drinkers (double ewww) and there are the guys like me who only drink beer made in smaller batches with real flavor and color and aroma. My point is that some folks are going to rather read the PI online than have the Times delivered.
It is personal preference.
Nothing more. Nothing less.
I wrote John Carlson on the death of the P-I. I stay away from the Kook-aid sites.
@1 “And the Obama depression takes another company down.”
Glop that looks like horseshit and smells like horseshit probably is horseshit.
The P-I, like the rest of the print media industry, was destroyed by Google’s ad-revenue poaching.
The problem with Google is they don’t create content, they merely link to it, and by destroying the content producers (by stealing their revenue), Google is destroying itself.
In other words, the relationship between Google and the media industry is similar to that between business and workers: If you keep destroying workers’ jobs and incomes long enough, one day you will wake up and find your business no longer has any customers.
And then everyone dies together.
Google and CHEAP LABOR CONSERVATIVES are like shipworms: They eat the bottom of the ship, and then end up on the seafloor with everyone and everything aboard the ship.
Losing the PI is a bad deal for everyone. IMHO.
Fewer reporters, to watch over those that should be doing business on our behalf….
Another watchdog of govt and big business abuse is a good thing. Losing it? Bad deal.
On a positive note, think of all the trees that are breathing easier today….
@5 Don’t worry, that’ll never happen here, save in hyperactive wingnut imaginations like yours. There’s no profit in it.
@6 No one will miss you either, trust me.
@13 There’s only 1 beer, Guinness Stout; everything else is colored water.
@14 I know this will fly over your silly little head, putz, but your comment contradicts itself.
@18 Trees are renewable, newspapers are not.
Pelletizer, you forget the AFL-CIO supports cheap labor conservatives. Need to see the info again?
Troll, it went to an online only edition. go here: http://weeklyworldnews.com/
They are still going strong. Supposedly, Palin bagged a Bigfoot.
I will miss the P-I for a number of reasons; but the biggest will be because without newspapers there will be less Mainstream Media to pick up the stories that the bloggers post.
@24 Not really.
Re 24: I suppose next pudnutz will tell us the dead miners at Ludlow were striking for lower wages.
No Pelletizer, the AFL-CIO went to a SF federal judge to stop the illegals being fired by the Bush Admin from the “cheap labor Republican” companies for fake SSN#s. So AFL-CIO likes cheap labor Republicans, plain and simple.
Puddy already covered all this. Puddy guesses your poor mind is shot after 24 hours. Libtard Disease.
16 Yeah, Google.
Also eBay, Craigslist, talk radio, internet porn and 200 cable TV channels filling all our brains with the epistomological equivalent of high fructose corn syrup.
Why the hell should anyone bother to read?
@23
Hey SHHHHHHhhhhhsh…!
Don’t you dare use the words “trees” and “renewable” in the same sentence on this site….You’ll lose all the “tree huggin” cred you’ve built up here….
(little dig at the liberal anti-logging, liberal tree huggers)
I wouldn’t let that liberal rag line my Kitty litter box. It has hit the demise it deserved from overpaid unions to Liberal taxing.
Another Liberal spewing Tax sucking publication down the toilet!
I celebrate it’s demise.
It will Follow Air America into the Liberal dust bins of Hell
How will Jean Godden ever get re-elected?
Who’s Next Goldy, maybe Government Unions eh, Gregoire has not been pouring anything into all the Government pensions for some time. So Next, say Bye Bye to Government Pensions…..Yeh Ha how about a 401k, or maybe not even that!
I love to watch what goes around come around to all these government stooges.
I’m sincerely going to miss my Post-Intelligencer! Their “fish wrapper” rival is so conservative with totally different values, I’m not sure I will continue getting a newspaper at all.
@ 12. Emily spews: …. The recoring told me that the Times is automatically signing up all the PI subscribers. How thoughtful. But I bet some little ingrates will be ticked off.
Thanks for the heads-up! My subscription ends in April I believe, so I know to cancel – before getting lobbed with a bill, for a product I didn’t agree to purchase.
The P-I’s official cause of death has been listed as : SUICIDE!
Death by thousands of LEFTIST PINHEADED KLOWN KUTS!
I am sooooo pleased they are in the tank.
Irresponsible idealogue spewing masked as “journalism” has inevitable consequences.
The P-I proves “You reap what you sow”!