How we clicked quality journalism off our TV screens
It took a long time, and a lot of help from dumb-it-down consultants, but a 1950s invention played a big role in removing the most serious journalism from local television.
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It took a long time, and a lot of help from dumb-it-down consultants, but a 1950s invention played a big role in removing the most serious journalism from local television.
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The day's winners and losers.
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Washington State Ferries has shifted gears on a plan to remove passenger-only service from a revamped Colman Dock. But what shape the service will take is still in question.
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From 520's pontoon problems to the Boeing 787 debacle, standards seem to be slipping in an age when the Chinese economy is dominating. But a call should be made to return to high quality, long lasting products.
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Ignore the neighbors. What's wrong with being distant? Don't dwell on the geophysics of catastrophe: What's the point in scaring yourself away?
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Green Acre Radio: The Just Garden Project is part of a network of efforts to improve food choices for people often forced to accept less-healthy ways of feeding themselves and their families.
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For many cities, hi-rises would be a terrible travesty for their beauty and liveability. Besides midrises, as in Seattle, can provide all the density one needs.
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Sure, Seattleites score high when it comes to environmental awareness, but it's about time we took a good look at how we treat our city.
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After a long saga, has Madison Park's discomfort with interlopers lessened?
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People are legitimately concerned when a developer changes a key part of their neighborhood's commercial district. But the Green Bay Packers model might help communities control their own destiny while respecting ownership rights.
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Expanding rail capacity would mean shrinking a popular park.
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"The News Tribune" is providing insightful coverage of the difficulties and rewards for troops serving in Afghanistan. A story brings powerful detail to the death of a young woman shot in Pioneer Square.
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In Seattle and nationally, our political discourse is frustrating and circular, wrapping us in irrelevant talking points. How about discussing the ways we make a better future?
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Washington journalists were allowed to interview the finalists in the state's superintendent search in a three-day, speed-dating-like frenzy. Who is Mr. or Mrs. Right?
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The author of a new book on the Space Needle gives a talk to those who built Seattle's icon, and how he fell in love with the Needle as a Cub Scout watching the future rise on the horizon.
READ MORE | 2 COMMENTSThe latest from news outlets and blogs around the Northwest and beyond, chosen by Crosscut editors.
Knute Berger writes for the Atlantic Cities on how "Century 21 left a permanent legacy of infrastructure and attitude that continues to shape Seattle to this day."
A father of two from Arizona won the Space Needle's coveted trip to space yesterday after walking around the perimeter of the Needle while answering trivia questions.
Benaroya, a philanthropist best known for his namesake Benaroya Hall, has died at the age of 90.
Main action will be downtown and along Second Ave. in the afternoon.