The last issue of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer landed on my doorstep today.
It's a sad day for those 170 journalists' comrades, for Seattle, for a free and diverse press. Hearst, long a symbol of American newspapering, chose to forget its legacy and treat its employees like dirt.
It is not a graceful departure.
But after the announcement earlier in the winter that the P-I would close "no earlier than March 18 and no later than April 1," after the shredders arrived in the newsroom, after the tours of the giant P-I globe, the staffers stuck it out.
They put out a newspaper every day.
Until today.
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