Posted Sat, Aug 7, 9:54 p.m.

If a website decides to ban anonymous posters, that's fine by me. What irks me is when writers for websites that do allow anonymous posts get all bent out of shape when someone leaves an anonymous comment on their stories. If Joel Connelly doesn't like anonymous posts, he should get ...

Posted Fri, Jul 23, 5:40 p.m.

this is an awfully long, meandering and fluffy piece for what's really a simple solution: be a good citizen and don't break the law. yes, the u.s. has an incarceration problem. agreed. but how about writing a long, puffy piece about investing into communities to prevent criminal behavior before incarceration ...

Posted Thu, Jul 1, 12:26 a.m.

Looks like someone else is calling B.S. on Hamer, too. http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2010/06/washington_news_councils_john.php

Posted Fri, Jun 25, 5:58 p.m.

No need to respond to my last question posed in the post above. I found the answer on the News Council's website: "Startup funding for the News Council has been generously provided by the William H. Gates Foundation, Seattle Foundation, The Bullitt Foundation ...."

Posted Fri, Jun 25, 5:49 p.m.

I concur with Mike Henderson 100 percent (BTW, Mr. Hamer, Henderson may not work for your beloved Seattle Times, but he, too, is a "real working journalist.") And like Henderson, I, too, refute your relevancy claims. The primary reason: you purport that your organization is here to hold journalists accountable ...

Posted Fri, Jun 25, 12:25 p.m.

How sadly self-promotional (not to mention tainted) this bit of "journalism" is. Yes, bravo to the Times' for its work on Lakewood shootings, but the irrelevant pot shot taken by Hamer at the P-I's courageous investigation of the sheriff's office speaks volumes about his own need to be validated. The ...