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Article: SEATTLE NEEDS COMPETING MEDIA.(News)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- January 14, 2009
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Byline: JOEL CONNELLY P-I columnist
WHEN NEWS BROKE that the Seattle P-I was up for sale, one of the first e-mails to arrive came from our longtime press contact at the Bush White House, who showed Job-like patience with this corner of the "Left Coast."
"While I have often found myself on the opposite side of a host of issues editorialized about in the P-I, I certainly think Seattle and Washington state have benefited from the competition of two major dailies in the state's largest city," wrote Ken Lisaius.
The same sentiment came in a Web posting by Dori Monson, the KIRO/710 radio pundit who has agreed with this column only once - on city ...