“Trust me, big-city daily newspapers don’t go out of their way to achieve ideological diversity.”

Indeed ™ — and let the payback continue: Seattle’s P-I buttons up its print edition: http://www.seattlepi.com/business/403793_piclosure17.html

I expect very few mid-sized cities will have ink-on-paper news by year end. This will all be chalked up to the economy and the Internet, of course. Yet somehow they’ve managed through (in the P-I’s case) *146 years* of turmoil before this.

Sure seems like something else might be to blame …