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Jim Thomsen
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Jim Thomsen is a former newspaper reporter and editor, most recently at the Kitsap Sun in Bremerton. He now works as a freelance copy editor of book manuscripts, dealing primarily with self-publishing authors. He lives in West Seattle and can be reached at thomsen1965@gmail.com.
Active since September 2007
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Posted Tue, Mar 27, 2:27 p.m.
My sense is that seattlepi.com is a peripheral player on the Seattle-area news scene, an inessential part of the daily news churn. My 500-plus media-savvy Facebook friends in the region rarely link to it, and it even more rarely occurs to me to go there on my own. My daily ...
MOREPosted Fri, Jan 20, 9:41 a.m.
"Predatory pricing? At some point, antitrust watchdogs might ask that question." The Department of Justice can start with traditional publishers, whose standard author contracts look suspiciously similar. Or did they just happen to arrive at the same royalty percentages and escalator clauses on their own? What a shocking coincidence It's ...
MOREPosted Tue, Jan 3, 10:50 a.m.
I hope you're aware that Kim Murphy is a longtime Northwesterner who currently lives on Bainbridge Island. She's no parachuting pontificator.
MOREPosted Tue, Jan 29, 12:30 a.m.
Hillary climbs the Everest of politics: Let's not forget how some news organizations insist on referring to our governor as "Christine Gregoire" when she goes by "Chris" on just about every campaign article, press release and official state document. It's patronizing, as if some editor or publisher decided she didn't ...
MOREPosted Wed, Nov 28, 5:50 p.m.
Meh ....: Westneat's okay, but inconsequential. He doesn't have "it" ... that instant sit-up-and-take-notice quality. Few do, though. And Thiel? Give me a break. Dude can't get out of the way of his own writing. He'd be funny if he wasn't so stylistically self-conscious.
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