Seattle Salmon Action! News Team Straining to Find Local Angle to Egyptian Crisis

How does a reporter in Seattle cover the story of the thing happening in Egypt? No, really. We're asking.

Journalistic reputation in worse shape than Mubarak

In the wake of the harrowing, inspiring events unfolding in Egypt, the Seattle Salmon Action! News Team has been hopelessly trying to connect the excitement of Cairo’s demonstrations to this temperate city.

While the Action! News Team could have been combing the streets for a relative of an Egyptian protester, or conducting a phone interview with a Seattleite stranded in the Ramses Hilton, they were instead found crowded around a computer, ogling the unbelievable badonkadonk of the Eastside woman online.

In fact, it was only yesterday that the Action! News Team even realized the protests were occurring at all. Theories on how a pack of journalists managed to miss a story of such magnitude abound, the simplest explanation being that they were searching for a single coherent thought in their own publication’s Blogger of the Week column.

Salmon News Director Luanne Perkins explains, “When the Action! Team finally got started they went straight to the UW’s Arabic and Islamic Studies Program. But by then, the Seattle Times and KING 5 had signed the experts to exclusive analysis deals. Everyone we talked about an interview told us – and this is a rough translation – to ‘eat sand.’ I can’t lie, this isn’t Local Emmy material. This sub-MSNBC, for God’s sake.”

Action! News Team Lead! Reporter Harvey Hatley lamented, “I think the low point was when we hit on the idea of interviewing the manager of the Egyptian Theater on Pine. But he said he had already signed up with the Wallingford Seattle Blog….why do we always lose to those guys! “

Hatley continued, “Sometimes, when you’ve got nothing fresh, you just rehash a bunch of crap you already did. Like those crappy clips shows on 80’s sitcoms.”

Then suddenly, the team received a tip of a potential local angle in a woman living in Tacoma. A race down I-5 at 115 MPH and three reckless driving tickets later, they were dejected to learn that the woman was in fact Italian.

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