Most Seattleites are aware that the hipsters over at Dan Savage’s paper, The Stranger, hate the old folks over at Village Voice’s Seattle Weekly. It’s sort of stupid: the papers need each other desperately, and would fail without having the other to define themselves against. But whatever: The Stranger loves to snipe at the Weekly, while the the Weekly desperately yearns for The Stranger’s street cred. Evidently, however, things got taken to a new level this week, and now the Weekly has blocked all IP addresses in The Stranger’s offices from accessing the Weekly’s website. Why? Read all about it.
It’s sort of funny, but seriously: what is this? Rival high school papers? How about doing some writing instead of snarking?
Update: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer picks up the story, which goes ignored by The P-I’s rival, The Seattle Times
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Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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August 17th, 2005 at 8:28 pm
Funny! imagine what it’s like in Portland, where the sniping between the old, established alternative weekly the Willamette Weekly, the Stranger’s bastard child The Portland Mercury, and the new-est of them all, the semi-weekly (bi-weekly? –twice a week) Portland Tribune (which is much more traditional/downtown/business oriented) has gotten to new levels. every week they each have another snipe at one of the others at least once in the issue.