Thursday, January 08, 2009 - 7:19 pm
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395362_newspaper09.html
Thursday, January 08, 2009 - 11:40 pm
That'll be a bummer, but we've heard this before.
Friday, January 09, 2009 - 12:31 pm
Guess it's gonna happen now:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008609677_webpi09m.html
Saturday, January 10, 2009 - 2:36 am
..and here's a keeper of the P-I from April 2007:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkxsQHowMmc
(notice the statement between 5:00-5:06 in this vid -
..ah,,,ummm - oh Don...were you SURE?...)
Saturday, January 10, 2009 - 3:25 am
What do you think? Dr. Pamplin buys the PI?
Saturday, January 10, 2009 - 8:25 am
Another sad day for Journalism. The legacy of the P.I., which has been around nearly as long as the Oregonian, is incredible. It has spawned so many excellent writers like Emmett Watson and Royal Brougham. The paper still tops out today with award winning coverage and investigative journalism.
What Seattle and the Pacific Northwest loses, if the P.I. goes under, is the synergy of competition between two great newspapers. Amid these troubling journalistic and economic times, I hope, at least, some kind of online presence can continue for the P.I.
Monday, January 12, 2009 - 3:27 pm
Well said, Dan.
Even though this has been predicted for awhile, it still is a shock. What is even more ominous is how teetering the newspaper industry is. The Detroit News and Free-Press will now just deliver three days a week. The New York Times publisher couldn't be sure a written edition would exist in the next decade. Newspaper circulation continues to fall year after year almost everywhere.
I come from a long line of family members who were involved in journalism and I often wonder what they would think about the slow death of newspapers.
But, Dan, you hit it on the head. The lack of competition will certainly reduce the quality of journalism in Seattle. Very sad indeed.
