Cartoonist Horsey Weighs in on 'Seattle P-I' Closing Threat

By: Joe Strupp David Horsey, the Seattle Post-Inteligencer's two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, took last week's news that his paper may shutdown if a buyer cannot be found hard.

In a blog essay he declares: "It seemed unthinkable that such a shift could come, so none of us at the P-I imagined it. Yet it was the essential fact that drove a cold calculation: If it no longer made sense for Hearst to purchase another debt-ridden property like the [Seattle] Times, there was also no longer any reason to keep losing money by keeping the P-I afloat."

His entire essay, and cartoon, are at:

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/davidhorsey/archi
ves/159174.asp