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    Image of atlasfugged atlasfugged
    11/24/09

    In reply to Marcus Brauchli —
    I'm probably wrong, but I blame Fred Hiatt for this.
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    11/24/09

    @atlasfugged: Did he, in the '90s ...
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    11/24/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: I thought he is the current editor of the editorial page and held that title throughout the Bush presidency, which that page dared not (and still dares not) criticize, as it relentlessly warmongered. The editorial page used to be somewhat balanced, but under Fred Hiatt has veered sharply to the right, almost to the point of becoming unreadable, on certain days, but by neoconservative dunderheads. It may be my personal bias, but I think this has even infected some of the paper's journalism.
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    11/24/09

    @atlasfugged: Totally agreem and why I mourn what the Post was and what it has become. Alas.

    #tips
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    11/24/09

    In reply to Marcus Brauchli —
    Somehow this felt appropriate.
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    11/24/09

    In reply to Marcus Brauchli —
    attempting to do more with less. david simon is in a bawlmoor bar somewhere cackling.
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    11/24/09

    In reply to Marcus Brauchli —
    They aren't? Well, they used to be! Great work, Marcus Brauchli! In just one year you've turned the Washington Post into a local paper. Ben Bradlee must be so proud.
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    11/24/09

    In reply to Marcus Brauchli —
    Sadz.
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    Image of Mike Jahn Mike Jahn
    11/24/09

    In reply to Marcus Brauchli —
    Another step in saving the New York Times.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/24/09

    In reply to Marcus Brauchli —
    How sad it is that he utterly misses the point of the service local bureaus render: that they provide another take, another perspective, another voice on events of national consequence on their regional beats, and because they know the paper's home audience, they can best explain why those regional events matter to the home audience. With decisions like this, newspapers ingest more and more of their suicidal poison.
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    11/24/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: There's ***maybe*** an argument toward focusing resources locally and in depth, instead of adding the showing baubles of thinly staffed regional buros that add a 30k feet national perspective to what's going on at the local level and, in theory, could be pretty much plugged in via wire. If wire didn't totally suck.
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    11/24/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: True, but I would cut back on soft news resources--style sections and the like--before I would cut back on news. Of course, the soft news drives circ, so...Oh, hell, I can't solve this, either.

    #tips
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    11/24/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: you make the mistake of believing that the WaPo is interested in these other localities. I'm not that old, but during the time I considered myself an avid reader, it's has transformed rather convincingly into "a beltway paper." I think for a long time it was trying to compete on the same level as the NYT but it is firmly entrenched in the Insidery/Village of DC. And now that the Times is pretty much kaput, it really doesn't have to try that hard. Sadness.
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    11/24/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: You would think that such a national perspective would be all the more important for the Post, given how its home audience is so heavily salted with readers whose decisions have such a profound effect on the life of the nation.
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    11/24/09

    @Glib and Bitchy: Precisely.

    #tips
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    11/24/09

    @Helio: To the extent that the beltway is how the business of govt gets done, that could be a national paper

    #tips
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    11/24/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Fair enough. As i see it, the business of government has largely become a rich man's game, geared towards their interests more than society's in general. And if the Post has narrowed its scope to match the likewise narrowed goals of the government, I'd say that's a pretty sad fucking thing.

    #tips
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/24/09

    @Helio: True. Sad. In the future, we'll all just be pizza deliverators.

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    10/31/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    apparently I am in the minority, but I love Joe Biden! I think he's like the lovable Steve Urkel of the White House. He comes in, says stupid stuff, knocks shit over, and is like "Did I do that?" Oh Joe. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Joe Biden is everything thats wrong and fucked up with congress. This dope won his seat in the Senate when he was 29 and has never had another job until being VP. He has learned about as much about how the country works from his perch in DC as Palin learned about Russia from staring at it. He is walking proof we need term limits.

    And he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Why is it that I feel compelled to defend Gawker's subject matter against the editors/writers at least once a day lately?

    Either this new crop of staff writers is utterly fucked, or the editorial direction has taken a nosedive, or both.

    Is there some negative correlation between the quality of stories and the quality of AJAX/CSS? #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: From where I'm standing, it would appear to be a positive correlation. It's a good day when I get tripped up by fewer than five unresponsive scripts, infinite waits for comments to load or what have you. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @romulus: The site gets prettier, and the content gets lamer. Just callin it as I see it. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: Oh yeah, I didn't mean to quibble. I agree that the site gets fancier all the time, but features seem to break often. I should have added before that it could well be my OS and browser causing headaches most readers don't experience. And in all fairness, I haven't been reading long enough to judge contemporary content against the past. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Not sure what point you're trying to make, Amrita... that you think Cheney's worldview makes some sense? That Cheney was initially popular, before everything he did brought his popularity rating to a low of 28%? I love it that Biden is willing to call a moron a moron. This is a ridiculous post. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Oh, and if you're trying to poke fun at Vice Prez Biden for weeping during the debate when he spoke about his first wife and baby daughter who died, well then, that's just messed up. #joebiden
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    10/31/09

    @Conchie Birdie: One might argue that it was the worst kind of political hackdom for him to bring them up expressly to show his "empathy" side and try to squeeze a tear out of his plastic-surgeryized eye slots. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    I'm absolutely NOT a supporter of ANYTHING Dick says... but, Good Lawwd, Biden, Bin Laden will always BE a part of the issue. I'm sorry, I guess if you had the prez saying this I could understand... but, uh, Joe? Nope.

    That being said, why are we posting crap from Fox News anyway - I thought we weren't supposed to take this stuff seriously?
    #joebiden
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    10/17/09

    In reply to New York Times to Washington Post's Executive Editor: Liar, Liar, Liar.
    The Chatham House Rule, eh? Goodnight you princes of DC, you kings of the Mid-Atlantic. #washingtonpost
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