Until recently, I haven’t had any particular feelings about the Weekly. Sometimes I read it but mostly I didn’t, and I think the Weekly and I were both alright with that arrangement. I watched with a little interest all of the quitting and firing that happened when the New Times took over, and then I forgot all about it.

Only recently has Geov Parrish has written about what went down, and it’s a very small train wreck’s worth of interesting. “I found out later that while I was on vacation Van De Voorde told Skip Berger to fire me. This is chickenshit for two reasons: ambushing someone while they’re on vacation, and setting up an outgoing editor as the fall guy for a move sure to be unpopular with readers.”

The moral of the story is that the New Times did a very good job of screwing things up, and I like to think that this complete lack of decency is why they chose to run a six-month-old story about a dead man. Parrish says, “the new Seattle Weekly is being run by an enormous corporation that will run it the same way they’d run a widget factory–a cheap one–and it will show.”

And really, it does show.

(Thanks to Seattlest for continuing to pay attention to these things.)