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...meantime, the journalists keep doing their best to lay track and ignore the oncoming train. "We're not so narcissistic to think we're the biggest story in town," says McCumber. "But the amazing journalists here will bring the same amount of effort and skill they bring to any story...
...editorial staff do when faced with the deadliest of deadlines? It does what any modern news organization would do. Or what any disgruntled employee would do. Or any spurned teenager with fingers. It writes about itself on the Internet. On Sixty Days, different journalists, including managing editor David McCumber, are covering the P-I's two-month drain circle day by day. The blog has brief historical stories about the paper, the video of Swartz's fateful announcement and accounts of McCumber's attempts to find a buyer and handle editorial meetings. All of which means that the closest account...
...McCumber started Sixty Days, it seems, almost as a pre-emptive strike against other blogs that cover Seattle. "I'll be looking for ideas as we go along," he says. But he's not averse to batting the paper's eyelids at any civic-minded Seattleite with deep pockets. "[The P-I has] so many strengths," he wrote, "and I'm going to hammer relentlessly at them as the online infomercial part of this blog continues in coming days...
...columnists have not been so coy. The news "hit like a chunk of loose viaduct," wrote sports columnist Art Thiel. "I expected to react to this somber state of affairs by getting drunk, but I haven't," wrote fellow sports columnist Jim Moore. Editorial cartoonist David Horsey, who, as McCumber puts it, legally owns two Pulitzers, observed that owning a newspaper is "quite suddenly a sucker...
...Manson (H), 2:08.18; 2. Ken Pasternak (H) 2:12.18; 3. Bill McCumber...