It’s true, good editing is affected by the location of the editors. Seattle is not home to great universities or extensive intellectual activities, outside of Boeing’s design rooms or Microsoft’s computer terminals. http://www.msn.com is clearly made by Seattle editors, with its anti-California, airheaded, espresso-sipping, sophist attitudes — average joes who think they’re cool. Many corporations, particularly in the IT industry, thought that location would not affect the quality of the workforce, made expensive moves to cheaper locations, and discovered unpleasant truths. The better employees were unwilling to move to hicksville, and hicksville workers did inferior work. Techdirt is written from the point of view of a Silicon Valley free-market ideologue with a Cornell education. Washington news sources tend to be politics-centered, Atlanticist, and big-picture-oriented. Every location has its spin on things.