Just saw It’s Not In the P-I, the “living newspaper” stage revue at North Seattle Community College (one of my alma maters), co-written by some former Post-Intelligencer newsies.

Well acted and well paced, it’s a quick succession of sketches and running gags featuring wacky F-bombing reporters, clueless bosses, and all your funny newsroom anecdote-type material.

It contained no new insights as to why big newspapers are failing, and no overt ideas about what to replace them with.

But since every well-made satire reveals its alternative ideal world within the aesthetic of its work, one can surmise what the playwrights would like: Something personal, human-scale, telling people’s stories with emotion and frankly admitted bias, unencumbered by corporate restraint.

In short, something more like Seattle’s fringe theater tradition.