It's in the P.I....Eight Years After it's in the Weekly
It's one thing for a major metro daily to unwittingly (we hope) crib a story that a scrappy weekly publication wrote a couple years before. This happened just yesterday on the front of the P.I.'s metro section, where a story bearing the headline "Tree cutting for scenic reasons nothing new in Seattle" appeared. No, it's not something new — and neither is a story featuring the same protagonist and much of the same info on the same topic: specifically, Nina Shapiro's "Not So Clear Cut", which ran in August 2006.
But hey, shit happens, and it's sort of flattering —although it'd be a lot cooler if credit was given where credit is due somewhere in the body text. But when shit happens a full 7-1/2 years after the Weekly writes essentially the same story, that's cause for celebration (alarm?). Today, the P.I. has a front-page story on how "sleepy Ballard" is finally becoming "more trendy than affordable." Which, of course, is precisely what SW wrote in a much more detailed, multi-sourced cover story in the year 2000. Glad to be of service, gang.
2 comment(s)
davidstoesz says:
In a similar vein, NPR this morning explained some crazy new \"American Idol\" thing to us:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89652902
Posted On: Wednesday, Apr. 16 2008 @ 10:44AM
davidstoesz says:
In a similar vein, NPR this morning explained some crazy new \"American Idol\" thing to us:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89652902
Posted On: Wednesday, Apr. 16 2008 @ 10:44AM