Eric Johnson reflects on blowback from ‘Seattle Is Dying’

I hear Jack Nicholson saying, “You can’t handle the truth!”

That was true for certain Seattle factions that were shocked by the telling of facts as they were, and continue to be to this day.
KIRO’s John Curley interviewed Eric Johnson, former KOMO News anchor concerning the explosive documentary. The response from some in city government and local agencies wasn’t what he expected.

“I didn’t really realize that the forces would line up to push me down, to shut me up, to quell whatever this thing is that I had opened up,” he said.

(((Catch the KIRO NewsRadio report at MyNorthwest.com)))

“Seattle Is Dying” is a 2019 hour-long documentary-style special report produced and narrated by longtime KOMO News anchor/reporter Eric Johnson for KOMO-TV.

Johnson examines the intertwined crises of homelessness, open drug use (especially opioids and heroin), mental illness, property crime, and public disorder in Seattle. Through on-the-street footage, interviews with police officers (some speaking anonymously), business owners, residents, addicts, and experts, the report portrays a city “rotting from within” due to visible decay: tent encampments, needles, human waste, theft, and unsafe public spaces that deter families and tourists.

Jason Remington

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