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In the "truth is 'stranger' than fiction" dept.:
Seattle Weekly gets a bug up their ass and blocks The Stranger's IP from viewing their site.
In two years, you may see me eating these words, but at the moment, I must say: I wouldn't work for either of those two. The Stranger's editorial policy seems to be snark-as-content and the Weekly has been trying for years to emulate that in a yuppie-trying-to-look-boho sort of way. In other words, The Stranger is that disaffected mallrat who shops at Hot Topic and snarks on everyone and thinks that makes them counter-culture, and the Weekly are people who buy pre-fab "distressed" furniture for $3,000 a pop at Restoration Hardware because they think artful damage is cool with the Hot Topic set. Both are poseurs and need to get over themselves.
It's a pity, really. Weeklies are where most of the real news happens, because most mainstream media are owned by massive corporations who are more focused on making scads of money from advertisers than actually engaging in journalism. Yet our two here are so busy trying to out-style each other that they frequently miss the purpose of weeklies as a true alternative to news-for-profit. If they'd both quit the navel-gazing, they might accidentally stumble on actual news now and then.
Seattle Weekly gets a bug up their ass and blocks The Stranger's IP from viewing their site.
In two years, you may see me eating these words, but at the moment, I must say: I wouldn't work for either of those two. The Stranger's editorial policy seems to be snark-as-content and the Weekly has been trying for years to emulate that in a yuppie-trying-to-look-boho sort of way. In other words, The Stranger is that disaffected mallrat who shops at Hot Topic and snarks on everyone and thinks that makes them counter-culture, and the Weekly are people who buy pre-fab "distressed" furniture for $3,000 a pop at Restoration Hardware because they think artful damage is cool with the Hot Topic set. Both are poseurs and need to get over themselves.
It's a pity, really. Weeklies are where most of the real news happens, because most mainstream media are owned by massive corporations who are more focused on making scads of money from advertisers than actually engaging in journalism. Yet our two here are so busy trying to out-style each other that they frequently miss the purpose of weeklies as a true alternative to news-for-profit. If they'd both quit the navel-gazing, they might accidentally stumble on actual news now and then.
