As you probably read elsewhere, yesterday was the last day of the print edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Certain leftist bloggers seem to believe that the other major paper in Seattle, the Seattle Times, should now become “more liberal” to “fill the vacuum” or something.
That is one of the stupidest things I have read in a long, long time. The only reason the Times seemed “less liberal” than the PI was because the PI was so far to the left in their editorial decisions and statements. It is also believed by a large number of folks I’ve spoken to, not all of them fiscally conservative or libertarians or “right-leaning” or even “middle of the road” and a decent percentage of them Teamsters, that the demise of the PI was more than partly because of its leftist tinting of the issues.
So I say good riddance to bad birdcage liners and now we can move forward without their influence in the discussion.
Yay! But you’ll never hear the Media say it was because they were so far to the Left. According to the standard practice of Lefty hypocrisy, their own dialog of criticism/self-criticism is not applied.
If that isn’t a shining example of leftist thinking I don’t know what is. “Our paper failed so YOU have to do what we did to make things FAIR!” Weird people.
In his final column, Bill Virgin stated explicitly that part of the problem with the PI, and other newspapers, is that they are so far left.
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