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Conscious Choice Magazine

Conscious Choice Magazine

4.5(4 reviews)
3.2 mi•Interbay, Queen Anne

Gotta love free magazines. Especially ones that provide articles you don't find anywhere else. It…read morekind of reminds me of a mixture of Utne, Yoga Journal, and Vegetarian Times with a side of The Nation. Plus, no escort ads in the back! You would expect to find articles on spirtuality, yoga, organic food and sometimes art and politics. And best of all, most of its articles deal with local issues. This month there is an article on Washington's Green Vineyard Tour and Matt's in the Market, which I am now going to check out. Among some of the things you find in the classifieds: free yoga classes every saturday at 2:30 pm, a monthly movie series that presents problems and offers solutions, a free Transcendental Mediation session (I myself am not a follower of TM but am interested in checking it out), and much more. Check it out, and I guarantee you will get your moneys worth. Zipzap Zubidy Bop!

They have their money where their mouth is. Gotta respect…read morethem for that! The staff is very active in personally and with no pay volunteering and promoting their values. I volunteered for them at a booth at the Fremont Festival. I got to describe to people the merits an duse of an electric car. It was really fun and I learned a lot. I also got a cute green shirt, a little earth-friendly bag and a gift certificate from cafe Flora. i respect and appreciate that greatly. Like any media,, at times, they may feature a business or organization which has soem customer difficulties.. like all, they don't respond to calls to editor. I hope they read or listen to the comments. It always feel bad when a group whom I admire allows a business with poor customer service free coverage. Many deserve coverage. I am not the editor and as I ponder this dilemna.. I may not wish to be.

PubliCola - A snap of the business!

PubliCola

4.3(3 reviews)
0.1 mi•Downtown

Since the demise of the Seattle PI, there has been a huge gap in local coverage of Washington State…read moreand Seattle news (mainly politics), reported for the people of Seattle, not the outlying suburbs, which the mainstream media pays more attention and caters to. PublicCola fills this coverage gap very nicely, and is a refreshing change from the what the local mainstream media covers, which now days, flips its nose to the people of the City of Seattle and what they want to read. Since the beginning of the year, they've expanded their coverage from local political, to food, music, legal, and land use to name a few. I've been going to the mainstream sites increasingly less, since the writing is much better and much more on par with what this Seattle resident wants to read. So, if you're sick of the lack of detail that the local tv station or newspaper writes, or want much more detail with a Seattle perspective, head over to PublicCola.net and check it out!

A for Effort. That counts for something, right?…read more I first was turned on to Publicola in the late Summer of 2009, when the primary for Mayor of Seattle was really heating up. As a venture headed up by two former Stranger writers (Josh Feit and Erica C. Barnett), it offered the possibility of decent to better coverage of local issues, with some snarky writing to make things a bit more entertaining. As the campaign wore on past the primary, the comment threads really kept me coming back. While they would, at times, get excessively heated, it was the one place where a bunch of local political junkies, insiders, outsiders who wish they were insiders, and antagonists converged and really hashed out the issues (and, occasionally, solely engaged in trashing the other person's favored nominee/position on the tunnel). It was also during this period that Publicola attempted (from my perspective) to go "mainstream", and offer, per Mr. Feit, a "dose of objectivity" to their reporting, an alternative to the blatantly biased reporting at the Stranger, and more subtle biased reporting at the Seattle Times. All of that aside, I still read Publicola daily, and comment fairly regularly. What I fear the site lacks, however, is a clear direction. At one point, it was a local political reporting site, and it seems to be becoming a hodgepodge of random "nerds", with postings at random times of the day. Some are interesting, some are uninteresting, and some are painfully boring and pointless (and not the funny pointless at the Slog (a la Lindy West)). The morning routine of "Morning Fizz" is never in any logical order for the blurbs on stories involved (literally - they will post on a topic from the City Council, then some random bit about THEESatisfaction, back to the City Council, someone is going to be on KUOW, State Legislature, and some other random bit), and it is common that simple spelling and grammatical errors that MS Word Spellcheck would catch are not caught in the editing room. The "dose" of objectivity is, more often than not, a farce. While there will be occasion of straight news reporting, almost every story includes a clear slant from the reporter involved. Making matters worse, it is rare that there will be opposing viewpoints, until one enters the comment threads. That's not objectivity. There is also the issue of "scoops". It is fairly common that a story will be posted, and end mid-sentence of a paragraph, in shorthand, in order to be the first local outlet to report. I personally find this very troubling, as if being first is more important than being accurate or, even worse, intelligible. Finally, the comment threads are one will_in_seattle away from becoming the mess of BS that the Times comment threads are. This is really sad, because it takes away from good, well thought out conversations to mayor bashing for the sake of mayor bashing. I know that they can't control the comment threads (even though they are known to pull and/or edit comments), but this is just a sad fact. Those gripes aside, the fact that the team at Publicola is willing to do so much digging for stories that most media don't care about (Dr. Bushnell), and really keep following others (the panhandling ordinance), does show a seriousness that they are trying. Where was the Stranger during the Bushnell fiasco? Is the Stranger willing to criticize the man they feigned over during the election? It seems not. Publicola has shown that, even though they'll support you, doesn't mean you're free from tough questions. They've been around for just over a year. I hope that in the next year, they continue to grow, but also continue to work on issues such as editing before posting, ensuring facts are correct, and ordering news items in a way that makes sense. For now, three stars. Maybe next time they can get four.

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The Seattle Times

1.3(121 reviews)
0.6 mi•South Lake Union

I subscribe to the Seattle Times in order to get local news and sports. The international, national…read moreand regional news comes mostly from syndication which I can understand, The economy being what it is in a small independent paper can only afford so many reporters. However, its Subscription rate of two hundred and twenty five dollars for thirteen weeks is in my opinion, very over-priced, not only that, If you put a vacation hold of less than thirty one days, you cannot get credit for papers not received. I recently had a hold for twenty eight days and requested my credit and was told that it did not make the thirty one day threshold. So I felt that their policy is a bit dishonest and misplaced. There has never been a contract or a policy review that explains this to subscribers, and the only way to find out is through the experience of being denied the credit. I will continue to subscribe to the Times, but I am a bit disheartened by their policy that seems discouraging, if not dishonest, to long time subscribers like myself. After a very Long conversation on the phone, I was eventually given a courtesy credit for the Twenty eight days that I Missed. I will be gone for 3 weeks this month, But I will be sure to put a hold of at least thirty one days so I can get the appropriate credit without having to argue about it..

What has happened to the Seattle Times. This week the paper has been 16 pages. The sports section…read moreis 3 with no baseball box scores or standings. They say it is due to a "paper shortage". If that is always the case, why not reduce the ads and size of your editorial section. As a subscriber for over 35 years, I will not be renewing unless the content improves real soon.

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