Pete Delaunay active 1 year, 6 months ago
"Here’s one to chew on for a Monday: Jim Lehrer says “Journalism isn’t about the truth. It’s about gathering fact. If you wait until you have the whole truth, you’ll never go to press or go on the air. The [...]" · View
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brianglanz posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 9 months ago · View
It’s a fair question @newshound — PSBJ should have thorough sit downs and ample communication with any Seattle mayor, regardless of whether the mayor’s background is in business, or the law, or something else entirely.
I’m a little suspicious of the general framing of McGinn as an ”outsider” — of course that’s not only by PSBJ and to some extent it’s by McGinn himself. Still the framing can be over done and misused. At times it seems politically motivated to marginalize what are mainstream positions and values in Seattle. ”Environmentalism” is not an ”outsider” value in Seattle, for example.
In reply to - newshound posted an update: I was amused to read the second PSBJ article with subtle McGinn innuendo and the headline ’In with McGinn…Outsiders gain clout at Seattle CIty Hall”…Finally a politican that actually ’talks the talk (environmental stewardship) and walks the walk’ with more bike lanes, questions about a deep bore tunnel the size of which [...] · #
