stranger: 27 january 2005

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In this, the latest installation of Local Newspaper Watch, we highlight two case studies in journalism excellence:

1. We begin with the UW Daily which leads with this shocking headline, “Alternative sexuality in Greek life often kept in closet” [#].
   Go figure.

2. In the much anticipated follow-up to Stranger Sellout Watch, this week’s issue is dedicated to the narcissism of Seattle’s own Ben Exworthy [thestranger]. By the close of the fundraiser, he’d spent $12,000 to buy all of the editorial content on the auction block. As a tribute to his eBay ambition, or perhaps as a way of giving the staff a little time off, the editors turned much of the paper over to him. I wonder if it feesl like that scene in Being John Malkovich when Malkovich goes through the little door on the 7 ¹/₂ floor.
3. There is no item three. We really don’t have that much time to read newspapers.