Shamelessly stolen from Ace. Stingray is a lot like Ace of Spades, except it’s not nearly as funny or popular.
From the Seattle Times:
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which first rolled off the presses in 1863 and has been the state’s longest-publishing newspaper, is up for sale.
The newspaper’s staff was called into a closed meeting today by Publisher Roger Oglesby. Present at the meeting was Hearst Newspaper President Steve Swartz, who told the newsroom that Hearst Corp. is starting a 60-day process to find a buyer.
If a buyer is not found, Swartz said, possible options include creating an all-digital operation with a greatly reduced staff, or closing its operations entirely.
In no case will Hearst continue to publish the P-I in printed form, Swartz said.
Regardless, he said, if no buyer is found, the P-I as a newspaper will not publish after the two months is up.
Swartz discounted rumors that Hearst, the P-I’s owner since 1921, was interested in buying The Seattle Times newspaper.
He said the P-I has had operating loses since 2000, losing around $14 million this past year. Greater losses are anticipated this year, he said.
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“I’m really, really distraught … I was not expecting this,” said longtime P-I environmental reporter Robert McClure.
Hey, McClure — it was you writing craptastic articles like this that helped get the Post-Intelligencer into the trouble it’s in:
Doesn’t climate change occur naturally?
The climate has always changed — sometimes abruptly, but never before with human help. Carbon dioxide levels and temperatures are now headed higher than human civilization has experienced. Everyone studying the matter — including so-called climate “skeptics” — acknowledges that adding carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere traps more heat, warming the planet.
Don’t some scientists dispute global warming?
Few do anymore. Skeptics dispute whether the heat-trapping properties of greenhouse gases are affecting our climate more than natural variability. The most recent draft of the report released today, however, says, “Warming of the climate is unequivocal” and that heating caused by man-made emissions has outpaced natural warming by at least five times.
So there is no serious disagreement among climate scientists?
Quite the contrary. But arguments among scientists actively researching the issue tend to center on questions such as: How fast is the globe likely to warm? What’s the most probable amount of sea level rise? How fast will the ocean absorb the heat?
Does the sun have anything to do with global warming?
Of course not, you idiots. Despite centuries of data showing the correlation between the sun’s activity and earth’s temperature, the computer models show that this could never happen in the future. Shut the hell up and get in line with the program, you right-wing turds. We’ve always been at war with Oceania.
Okay, so I added that last question. But McClure’s response would have probably been along those lines if he knew anybody smart enough to ask the question.
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