We’re nearly 30 hours out from the Capitol Hill shootings, and we still don’t have any further clues about the shooter’s motive. And the problem (at least to me) is that the local media has done a piss-poor job doing what they’re supposed to do — report.

The Times does little to shed light on all of this. Neither does the P-I, though Hector Castro does a hell of a good job at spot-reporting the bloody predicament one Cesar Clemente had when he came upon the scene as it happened.

All this to say that, of all the newspaper and television media groups in this town, the Stranger’s Slog has done the best job putting the facts together, coloring in the background, and digging for details.

Memo to the writers at the Times and P-I and all you KING/KIRO/KOMO types: Start here. Read. Scroll up. Read. Learn. Because a BLOG is kicking your ass at reporting. A BLOG run by a weekly newspaper is doing Pulitzer-level work. And special note to the Times and P-I — this is how you do a news blog. Kudos to Dan Savage and his merry band of pinko liberal America-haters.

And on another subject, my watch is ticking away here waiting for somebody out there mete out blame for this unexplainable rampage. Maybe it’s just Sunday afternoon, but I haven’t seen any of the usual idiots throwing themselves in front of the camera to publicly scourge rave culture, video games (such as Shoot Up A Rave Afterparty 3 — now for XBox 360!), or teen abortions on this. I’m counting on you, Ken Hutcherson.