Following Tuesday’s minimal 26-page edition, Wednesday’s SeaTimes grew to a slightly less pathetic 34 pages. Still only six and a half pages of paid advertising, though.
At least they’re restoring a full op-ed page on Wednesday now, as well as Friday and Sunday. The Wednesday op-eds will, through the election season, carry electoral-themed material under the rubric “Reset 2010.” It’s all billed as a forum for strong advocacy pieces about changing the direction of local/state government.
Of course, when the SeaTimes talks about changing the direction of government, it means dumping them pesky libruhls wherever possible, and instilling the backers of “common sense,” “realistic” solutions. Said solutions, in Blethenland, invariably involve slashing gov’t. payrolls, busting unions, and generally reducing the public sphere to little more than cops and firefighters and big-business “support” schemes.
As if the Blethens and their hirelings still controlled the voice of the regional business community. Or even knew what that voice was saying.