Report: Seattle P-I likely to close

Just high enough for you to get hurt.

 

Make me an offer, and I'll see what I can do.

To sum up this day: Fuck.

 

The thing is it's not a true sale. Nobody's going to buy it. You are right. The end is near. Can you imagine being one or two years into this career or in J School for goshsakes? Sad state of affairs.

 

If you're in J-school or early in your career, you can switch majors or go back to school fairly easily. What's the problem?

Better than being 10 or 20 years into your career, and still 20 or 10 years away from retirement.

 

This. Plus, you can still use a J-school degree for something. I doubled in magazines and history and have never worked for a day's pay in either field.

 

I concur. I concur like a motherfucker.

It's like you work your ass off for 20 years to become a top firefighter, and one day someone says, "Oh, because of the internet, there's not going to be fire anymore. Go do something else."

 

Here's a link to the video.

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/video/bcplayer.asp?bcpid=1543292903&bctid=6808758001

 

Best Wishes to all going through this, been through a paper closing its doors before. Especially sad when you think all of the talented writers who have helped write "the Seattle story" for over a century.

 

Exactly. I'm 12 years into my career at this point. I can't take on more debt to go back to school for something else. So what do I do? Stick it out or look for a job at Best Buy or something? I guess the best answer at this point is to stick it out and keep my eyes open for some other avenue to use my skill set.

 

It's because local TV and IntraWebz don't provide adequate coverage of local news at smaller cities like that. There's nowhere else to find out about town meetings, local issues, local sports. If/when newspapers die, the last ones standing will be the smaller ones -- suburban areas (ignored by the major metros) and small towns (terrible or non-existent TV news). You can find national and big-city news online or on CNN and MSNBC; but you can't find out about Central High's hoops team and your local tax issues there.