Almost all the news that’s fit to print.Microsoft’s alleged dodging of over $1 billion in Washington state Royalty taxes may or may not be illegal. It may or may not be unethical. But it’s certainly news.The P-I, Crosscut, KUOW, HorsesAss, TechFlash, BoingBoing, the U.K.’s Guardian, Huffington Post and Seattle Weekly all think so. The Seattle Times does not. The city’s only remaining daily and the supposed paper of record hasn’t devoted a single bit of space, either online or in print, to an issue involving one of the region’s biggest employers.Until now.Unless “frankresponse” is the handle for Times publisher Frank Blethen, this means the first mention of a well-worn story is in the comments section. Long live new media!Final thought: I understand why, maybe, a story that’s still evolving like this doesn’t end up in print. But when you have your very own Microsoft-focused

blogs that have no qualms, say, posting groan-inducing videos that are hardly newsy (Hypocrite Alert: I have no such qualms either!), you kind of wonder where Fairview Fannie draws the line.