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   Anonymous Coward, Jul 24th, 2009 @ 5:33am

   
   

   If you are willing to skip the things like "fair and balanced" and "checking facts", then hey, yeah, it can be done.
   
   News by press release is bad. News by insiders providing their one sided view is, well, sort of useless, no?

    

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   ulle53, Jul 24th, 2009 @ 5:55am

   
   

   re #1

   All major news sources have their own agenda, they slant the news to fit what management wants, fair, balanced and checking facts only applies if and when it suits the bosses. To think otherwise is not realistic.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Jul 24th, 2009 @ 6:14am

   
   

   Holy Crap that site is fantastic!!! However I see a huge problem with it and I understand why the traditional media would rail against it.
   
   That site isn't printing canned press releases from the political parties (in Seattle's case, one political party), and being the local politicians' lapdog.
   
   Maybe if the "acclaimed" Seattle PI had modeled their business more like this site and less like a "traditional" old school paper (actually worse than an old school paper since there was very little critical reporting of the local politicians) they might still be in business (other than a shadow of its former self online).
   
   It's interesting to compare the seattle PI online site to this one. The differences are striking in regards to local reporting. It will be interesting to see which one will come out on top. Somehow I don't think it will even be a contest.

    

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   ArcticChill (profile), Jul 24th, 2009 @ 7:17am

   
   

   So ummm.....

   ....just what newspaper is paying the coward to haunt your site? Or should I wait until tomorrow to read it in his newsprint?

    

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   Some Other Guy, Jul 24th, 2009 @ 9:44am

   
   

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   Are not most politicians 'insiders' in any story that their voice has any worth to be heard?
   
   So should we never listen to the people closest to the story because their close-up view makes them 'biased'?

    

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   Jake, Jul 24th, 2009 @ 3:48pm

   
   

   Somehow I doubt this is going to be the business model that kills local newspapers worldwide. Local government around here is pretty much limited to deciding bus routes, what day the dustbins are emptied and whether Mr Bloggs from Number 4 can build an extension, which would barely bring in enough hits to pay domain name fees no matter how slick you are about your advertising.

    

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