Seattle P-I Offers Bland Story on Seattle Garbage Crisis, Ignores Salt

Ken Shepherd
December 29th, 2008 11:28 AM
"Garbage piles up, even after snow has melted," reads a December 29 Seattle Post-Intelligencer story posted to the Web site Sunday evening. Yet nowhere in the story by staffers Brad Wong or Eric Nalder was any blame for the garbage glut laid at the doorstep of the city's Democratic chief executive. Mayor Greg Nickels may be partly to blame for the trash backlog because of his stubborn refusal to…
 

Revolving Door: Seattle News Anchor Joins Liberal Mayor's Staff

Ken Shepherd
May 28th, 2008 4:28 PM
It's sort of like Linda Douglass but on the local level, I guess. I'll have to ask our Seattle-area readers to note in the comments section if KING's Robert Mak repeatedly displayed a penchant for gauzy coverage of liberal Mayor Greg Nickels (D). The 10-time local Emmy-winning reporter is leaving TV news for a job that pays $10,000 more a year than his new boss.From the Seattle Times (emphasis…