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So what doomed this iconic Seattle fish wrap? The Seattle P-I’s
ultra-left-wing columnist Joel 
Connelly unintentionally and unknowingly
sideswiped the answer when he used his column to ask this ironic
question: Once the P-I shuts down its presses, “who will speak truth to
power?” I had to laugh. If there is one reason why the P-I is
shuttering its doors, it is precisely because it would not speak truth
to power. The Seattle P-I never strayed from the mainstream media
orthodoxy. To speak truth to power, the P-I would have had to take
issue with itself. Whether it is newspapers, television news,
news magazines, Hollywood movies or late-night television comedians,
there exists a herd mentality that the the P-I blended into seamlessly.
The P-I almost never reported news or composed an opinion that strayed
from left-wing orthodoxy. When the P-I shuts down, Seattle will become
a one-newspaper town with only the Seattle Times littering porches/Michael Costello, Lewiston Tribune. More here.
Question: Which is the most liberal newspaper in Idaho? Which is the most conservative?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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Arch_Druid on March 14 at 9:23 a.m.
And Costello thinks he is the epitome of “conservative?” The better question isn’t what paper is the most “liberal.” Once you go left of liberal you become a radical. Ultra-left may carry many connotations, but “liberal” isn’t among them. And any newspaper that caters to screaming racists as does the CDA Press more often than not, isn’t my idea of a “conservative” paper. Newspapers shouldn’t be the engine that fuels hatred not if it wishes to retain a modicum of respect for what it will cover by way of the news.
If Costello wants to regard the late Seattle Post-Intelligencer as an extremist paper, that’s just fine by me. But a “liberal” paper will be particularly generous to opposing sides, which is where the S-R is today, and a “conservative” paper will promote certain ideological principles, without, one hopes, of going off the deep end.
saraeanderson on March 14 at 2:07 p.m.
Old white guys who get to push their conservative ideas in public fora amaze me at their lack of self-awareness when they think they’re going against the grain.
A white guy of means espousing conservative ideas? CRAZY! NEVER HEARD OF IT!
Whippersnapper on March 14 at 3:41 p.m.
The death of newspapers is about the internet’s rise and the loss of big retail advertising and classifieds. Anyone who attributes it to left or right leaning dogma is a wacko and lack the basic understanding of financial and social trends.
hmoffsuite on March 14 at 4:39 p.m.
snapper. You are right about the the internet. The news I read online tonight will be an AP story in the paper on Sunday or Monday. The real time aspect of the internet makes the content of the newspapers actually ‘history’ by the time it is printed. Not ‘news’.
cantyoureadthesigns on March 14 at 9:37 p.m.
“Whippersnapper on March 14 at 3:41 p.m.
The death of newspapers is about the internet’s rise and the loss of big retail advertising and classifieds. Anyone who attributes it to left or right leaning dogma is a wacko and lack the basic understanding of financial and social trends.”
Agree. Though it’s more than readership eyeballs and near costless and real-time delivery of news on the internet. It also correlates with the public’s lack of interest in the machinations of democracy, and their generally increased interest (inherent or force-fed) in entertainment that is quickly “consumed”.
One could also say that all the BS happening politically (on all sides) drove the public away from wanting to be engaged in that, or at least interested let alone informed.