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    Image of Benny Benny
    05:10 AM

    In reply to Dead Chimp Cartoon Spawns Second Employee Lawsuit Claiming Racism at the New York Post
    The one thing that makes me think that cartoon MAYBE isn't racist is the fact that it's so overtly racist.
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    11/30/09

    In reply to 'Twitter' Is Word of Sexless Year
    I think Twitter is one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, but I would have expected the verb form, "tweet," to be the so-called "top word." Isn't Twitter a brand name? At least Google has been turned into a verb. Aren't we celebrating the related human activity that Twitter promotes and not the actual thing? Unless they just think Twitter is the verb. Am I overthinking this? Can we spend the next 20 minutes conjugating?
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    Image of Magister Magister
    11/30/09

    Can we spend the next 20 minutes conjugating?

    @mimigoliath: If we can do it in 140 characters or less.
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    11/25/09

    In reply to Martha Stewart Caught in Bed With Big Government
    Do magazines think people want to wait for their regurgitated content on a monthly basis again? No. They do not. Silly magazines. You're going to have to offer people subscriptions to a bunch of your sites. And not .pdfs.
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    11/25/09

    In reply to Martha Stewart Caught in Bed With Big Government
    From the looks of the picture, Martha Stewart is in bed with something other than the State Dept.

    With that stick, it is no wonder she doesn't need a man.
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    11/25/09

    In reply to Washington Post Pulls Out of the Rest of America
    When the Big One hits L.A. or the next terrorist strike slams Manhattan, The Post will publish riveting "reaction stories" quoting the old dudes at the Holocaust Museum and Harry Reid.
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    Image of SlickaNicka SlickaNicka
    11/24/09

    In reply to Washington Post Pulls Out of the Rest of America
    I find it delightful that the Washington City Paper, the free paper with Savage Love and Stories of the Weird, broke the story. Ouch.
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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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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/24/09

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

    In reply to Marcus Brauchli —
    Somehow this felt appropriate.
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    Image of bess marvin, girl detective bess marvin, girl detective
    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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    Image of JennaW JennaW
    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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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    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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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    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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    Image of Helio Helio
    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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    Image of Glib and Bitchy Glib and Bitchy
    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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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/24/09

    @Glib and Bitchy: Precisely.

    #tips
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    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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    Image of Helio Helio
    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.

    #tips
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    Image of Meercat Meercat
    11/24/09

    In reply to Washington Post Pulls Out of the Rest of America
    One day - and perhaps soon - we as a nation will regret the loss of true journalists. Edward R. Murrow, we need you now. I wonder who will lead the search for truth? Are we to be lost in a world of rumor, opinions, factoids, and gossip? Thank you God for the BBC.
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    11/24/09

    @Meercat: The BBC is wildly overrated as some sort of corrective to the excesses of US media. It's a bland government organ with its own long dark history of propaganda and suppressing news. Most Britons had no idea what was going on in Northern Ireland, what the government was doing in their name for decades, until the 1990's.

    If anything, the blackout and suppression of news about our dual "wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan , including torture, were media-management techniques the previous administration learned from the BBC.

    They had to cow the press into obeisance though. The UK has no guaranteed freedom of the press, and the BBC is still a government organ. Not as forthright and honest as some of its American fans seem to believe.
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    11/24/09

    @Baroness: Any oasis in a desert. While I agree with you wholeheartedly, compared to US news organizations, the BBC is the alpha and the omega.
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    11/24/09

    @DennyCrane: Well, thank God for blogs and the internet, then. The BBC does some good work, but it's still a state organ with a tendency towards dullness.
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    Image of Helio Helio
    11/24/09

    @Baroness: I definitely think this is relative. The BBC is a state organ, but considering it's not our state that is running it, we (americans) appreciate when any major news organization sheds light on events/scandals that our own MSM would like to supress. Not only that, but the level of discourse exceeds our own as well (barring the inclusion of that racist/nationalist candidate on a panel show recently). It is by no means perfect and to Britons, the BBC's flaws are probably more apparent. A good rule of thumb is be careful and diverse in your choice of news sources.

    #tips
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    11/24/09

    In reply to Washington Post Pulls Out of the Rest of America
    I'll miss the meta stories about Gawker ripping them off.
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