Adele Ferguson - March 11, 2010

Seattle Times: A change in ‘left coast’ outlook?

I’VE LIVED in Washington state long enough to remember when the Seattle Times was considered a conservative newspaper.

Compared to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer anyway.

I don’t remember exactly when it started going the other way.

But it did, to my great disappointment.

I knew the reporters and some of the editors on both papers, and found the P-I’s to be more liberal than the Times.

Richard Larsen was probably the best known and most respected on the Times as their chief political writer.

He told me once that he never read his own paper’s edit...