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    December 5, 2011

    Ten Artists We Can't Stop Listening To, Even Though They're Assholes

    We couldn't help but notice that when they released the Grammy nominations last week, neither Kanye West nor Taylor Swift received nods in the Album of the Year category, despite both having released worthy albums within the requisite period. Surely, we can expect a classic Kanye meltdown any minute ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2011

    Larry Ellison, Richer Man Than Steve Ballmer, Already Tried and Failed to Buy New Orleans Hornets

    ​Steve Ballmer apparently isn't the only über-rich CEO who's been mulling over a chance to buy the beleaguered New Orleans Hornets and bring them back to his home city. Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp.'s co-founder and CEO apparently already tried and failed to buy the team.

  • News

    October 13, 2010

    Will the Gates Foundation's Journalism Gifts Taint Objectivity?

    ​Steve Ballmer apparently isn't the only über-rich CEO who's been mulling over a chance to buy the beleaguered New Orleans Hornets and bring them back to his home city. Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp.'s co-founder and CEO apparently already tried and failed to buy the team.

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    Bill Gates Buys More News Coverage for His Seattle Foundation, Gives ABC $1.5 Million

    ​He's no Rupert Murdoch, but Bill Gates is making another media investment: His foundation will help fund a project at ABC News to increase its coverage of health conditions of the poor. It further expands the billionaire's investments in the news media, which could help influence the storie ... More >>

  • News

    February 4, 2009

    Could Gates Be the P-I’s White Knight?

    Stepping into journalism isn’t foreign to the billionaire or his foundation.

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    Bill's Daily P-I?

    If the P-I is to survive as a news paper, it would seem to require a charitable and innovative billionaire. We happen to have some of those handy. And Bill Gates would seem the more likely of the two.Paul Allen has been an old-school newspaper investor - having bought the Sporting News for $100 mill ... More >>

  • News

    August 23, 2006

    Drinking & Reading

    The Blue Moon saves itself; and Bill Gates loves newsprint.

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2006

    Bill Gates, Newspaper Guy

    The Blue Moon saves itself; and Bill Gates loves newsprint.

  • News

    August 10, 2005

    Knight Ridder Rides In

    The unhappy minority owner of The Seattle Times acquires two other state newspapers.

  • News

    June 8, 2005

    Memo to Mainstream Media

    The unhappy minority owner of The Seattle Times acquires two other state newspapers.

  • News

    July 28, 2004

    Monorail, Media

    The unhappy minority owner of The Seattle Times acquires two other state newspapers.

  • News

    June 30, 2004

    The NASCARing of the Northwest

    The nation's new favorite sport is headed to Puget Sound. Are we in for a major cultural collision as 'The Dukes of Hazzard' race through Ecotopia? Or is it all a part of a corporate-style 'Dixiefication' of America?

  • News

    April 21, 2004

    Buzz

    The nation's new favorite sport is headed to Puget Sound. Are we in for a major cultural collision as 'The Dukes of Hazzard' race through Ecotopia? Or is it all a part of a corporate-style 'Dixiefication' of America?

  • News

    February 4, 2004

    Survivors of the Fray

    While most dot-com media experiments failed, Microsoft-backed Slate thrived—though not as first envisioned.

  • News

    December 24, 2003

    Culture of Molestation

    While most dot-com media experiments failed, Microsoft-backed Slate thrived—though not as first envisioned.

  • News

    February 5, 2003

    Pulp Friction

    Seattle Times publisher Frank Blethen is about to start a newspaper war with Hearst, and his family intends to win.

  • News

    November 14, 2001

    Down with Kyoto!

    Seattle Times publisher Frank Blethen is about to start a newspaper war with Hearst, and his family intends to win.

  • News

    April 11, 2001

    The Browser

    Pay for content online? Pffffff!

  • News

    February 14, 2001

    Draining Times

    After the strike, many top reporters have left The Seattle Times.

  • News

    March 8, 2000

    Start the presses!

    It's a whole new era in Seattle daily journalism as the Times and P-I duke it out in the morning.

  • News

    December 9, 1998

    How it is

    It's a whole new era in Seattle daily journalism as the Times and P-I duke it out in the morning.

  • News

    November 18, 1998

    The
    C(ocaine)
    I(mportation)
    A(gency)

    Drug dealing only begins to tell the story of the CIA's handiwork.

  • News

    September 2, 1998

    Going on a diet

    Drug dealing only begins to tell the story of the CIA's handiwork.

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