“Big Tech gutted our industry. Journalism is collapsing at a time when tyrants are on the rise nationally”

And yet so many TS staff link to the cesspool that was Twitter (maybe knock that shit off?).

Good luck with new ownership!

Journalists?

will there
still* be
Drugs?

b. will
Wormtongue
still be Grandfathered in?

*if Alcohol's
not a drug
how can
Weed
be?

Trump and Vance are yesterday's litter-besotted litterbox and it's time to clean up, Cat Ladies. Don't forget that it was Nala and Sarabi and the huntresses like the Lady Sirella and their multi-species wild bretheren in friendship who restored worthy Simba to the throne and gave them all a fighting chance in victory. For is it not a mighty queen with all the power in chess or otherwise?

I wish everyone best of luck under the new ownership and editor, although it appears the root of the problem still needs work: “… if you think you’re getting within 10 feet of the fucking Stranger Election Control Board,”

So, will the Stranger still attempt to impose their current, failed ideology on a city whose voters clearly no longer want it?

Here’s hoping a new editor will ensure the writers put some facts into the stories, e.g. homeless persons continue to die of overdoses on Seattle’s streets, there’s an entity called “Hamas” which operates in Gaza, etc.

Again, best of luck to everyone!

Journalists? That's pretty funny.

New owner the CEO of a climate media organization and former Dem state rep. New editor previously at 𝘙𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦 and 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢.

Hang on to your fedoras—it's going to be a wild and unpredictable ride! But I joke.

I kept hoping Mr. Poe would buy you all out.

Scooped on your own story! Har Har! Trying blaming that on Sara Nelson!

Hope it works out for all.

I'm seeing this news made the New York Times home page:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/30/business/media/the-stranger-seattle-new-owner.html

Good to see The New York Times recognized this as national news.

Please bring back print. I will gladly pay

I agree with stjerome. It is crucial that The Stranger return to print. I hope that is part of the new owners' plans.

So what elements of the Stranger's empire didn't he buy?

So what elements of the Stranger's empire didn't he buy?

There aren't any journalists here. The Stranger publishes poorly edited opinion pieces.

That said, I am hopeful having a somewhat serious editor on board will lead to some improvements. Charles is just phoning it in lately, it's like he gets paid for the number of times he writes the term "Keynesian."

The Stranger can only go up from here. I think they should start by firing the staff and hiring some journalists. Many years ago the Stranger did some legitimate journalism.

Time and tide....it's only natural for change to spur introspection.

Amazon and The Stranger had quite similar origins here in Puget Sound...
both scrappy startups long on dreams but short funds.

Most long term readers probably miss the Goldy era, endorsing McGinn was a bonehead move, but the weekly had talent AND work ethic back then...

Also, interestingly if COVID lock-down dogma (and the continuing loss of ticket revenue) had gone on any longer The Stranger would have been pandemic history.

Blaming tech innovation for The Decline of Journalism in 2024 is pretty lame but fitting of a middling weekly coasting on the past.

A vital Alt Weekly wouldn't sound like legacy media, pitting human innovation against gate keeping interests.

There are journalists here? Good riddance (I hope) to the Stranger's failed backing of anything marxist, communist and ludicrous. Don't let the door hit you in the butt.

8: Wow, that’s a blast from the past.

Bring back A. Birch Steen! He was the best reason to read here in the first place.

Big tech hasn't gutted the industry, it's only gutted credibility as it makes it easier for readers to fact check sloppy and incomplete reporting. If journalists are really the guardians of democracy, we're in big trouble.

@14-15 -- the part that controls double posting

The first thing I hope they do is nuke the comments section, I hope I never have to hear or see another thing from you miserable fucks in it again.

@24: Or, you could just, you know, not ever read any comments? Because if you did that, then you’d ensure you “never have to hear or see another thing” from your fellow readers, no matter what the new management of the Stranger decides or does. (Reading the comments does not seem to agree with you anyway, so why do you bother?)

@24 You've been on here for 14 years and posted over 100 times. You can always just walk away if you don't like it here.

from @11's
link to the nyt:

"... [tS & the Merc,]
two of the country’s
best known alt-weeklies... "

whoa!
people
other than
tS's Commentariat
READ this publication?
(or do they Know of it &
just Keep the Hell Away?)

I thought it was
just us 9 or 10
commenters

sounds like there
may be a Whole
'nother World
out there

that's a little
Frightening.

@21 -- bingo.
to be Eviscerated
a birch Steen's been
a Lifelong Dream* of mine

and Hopefully
it'll fit on my
Gravestone

*And to make
eltrumpfster's
Enemies List

Never Forget:
it's Don-OLD
thee most
Corrupt
Prez:

EVER.

As usual, Tensorna cuts right to the heart of the matter:

[W]ill the Stranger still attempt to impose their current, failed ideology on a city whose voters clearly no longer want it?

Here’s hoping a new editor will ensure the writers put some facts into the stories, e.g. homeless persons continue to die of overdoses on Seattle’s streets, there’s an entity called “Hamas” which operates in Gaza, etc.

Brady did well at Grist (and it sure helps to have millionaire grandparents) - This is a big lift though - the Stranger has become comically lazy, ideologically rigid (find the most extreme candidate possible..that's who we'll endorse, ignore facts/stories we don't like {Cap Hill Light Rail stabbing, Bell Town restauranteur shooting, Hamas}) and the runway for turning this around --not the finances, but the public's perception of the Stranger's relevance is REALLY short. Tim Keck is right too..maybe the nonstop profanity and "we love drugs so much" ...kinda tired, kinda played out. There's a ton to fix. How about start with that? Knock it off.

Very sad...but these days inevitable. We are on our own folks.

@28 In sum:

"I was saying Boo-urns."

~Hans Moleman