Another Big City Newspaper Gone

So long to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ("Intelligent as a Post!"):

After allowing the employees of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to twist in the wind for the better part of a month, the parent Hearst Corporation finally put the paper out of its misery. Tuesday's edition will be the P-I's last in print, ending a 146-year run.

Hearst will maintain a skeletal web site run by some of the P-I staffers, though the vast majority of the 167 employees will lose their jobs. The P-I becomes the second major U.S. metro daily to shutter in as many months, following the Rocky Mountain News' demise in February.

Meanwhile 800 miles further south Nancy Pelosi wants the Justice Department to change anti-trust rules in hopes of saving the San Francisco Chronicle. According to Pelosi's spokesman:

"She's been a big fan of newspapers her whole life,"

I'd be a fan of them if they'd been kissing my butt for 30 years too.