10.18.2003
Mediabistro interview w/ Dan Savage
Choice bits from the Dan Savage interview over at mediabistro.com:
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"I like to read punchy stuff, I like to read stuff that I don't necessarily agree with, and I like to be challenged. I have a subscription to The National Review, and they hate gay people, but I read it. And I want The Stranger to do that. A lot of left, anti-war folks are really mad that we're not just cheerleading for the demonstrations—to take that as an example. I want The Stranger to be conflicted and divided, and that's hard to do in a place like Seattle..."
What's frustrating is that with daily papers, the editors always bitch about their falling readership, their terrible demographics, and then they're not be able to put two and two together and realize that if you don't have anything in your paper that's going to upset a five-year-old then 35-year-olds are going to look elsewhere for the kind of writing that appeals to them and speaks to them...
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