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more about #washingtonpost more comments → m4ximusprim3: holy shit, that's one long unapproved comment. I made it through, but I had to break in the middle for breakfast. Also, that chipmunk is going to tea... more » Mrs. Beeton: I love any story printed in any major newspaper that starts with the word "okay." Style section still counts. more » hatey: Dear Hamilton: Thank you for this photo. It is now my background image, and the file is saved as 'measrodent.' So true. xoxo, Hatey more » blix: Chipmunks are bogarts by nature. more » Gabriel Snyder: In fairness, though, a newspaper published the Saturday after Thanksgiving may as well not exist. more » i'm a bottle: In other news, the Washington Post went to the store to buy ice cream and orange soda but totally forgot the ice cream. more » Airvault: So this gives me permission to reuse my R.W. Apple-bong joke, right? more » MrInBetween: 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 th... more » SlickaNicka: I find it delightful that the Washington City Paper, the free paper with Savage Love and Stories of the Weird, broke the story. Ouch. more » atlasfugged: I'm probably wrong, but I blame Fred Hiatt for this. more » DennyCrane: Somehow this felt appropriate. more » bess marvin, girl detective: attempting to do more with less. david simon is in a bawlmoor bar somewhere cackling. more » JennaW: 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 mu... more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Sadz. more » Mike Jahn: Another step in saving the New York Times. more » -
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Washington Post Was Probably So High on Marijuana They Didn't Notice, Ha
Kudos to the Washington Post for its Style section feature today on Med Grow Cannabis College. Who ever heard of such a thing?! Wait. The New York Times had it when? Saturday? This past Saturday? Fucking fuckity fuck. More » -
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Marcus Brauchli —
executive editor of the Washington Post explaining the newspaper's decision to close its remaining U.S. bureaus in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, to the Washington Post. -
#newspapers
Washington Post Pulls Out of the Rest of America
At the end of December, the Washington Post will close its bureaus in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. This is the biggest write-off of on-the-scene domestic news coverage by any major paper yet. More » -
#sadstory
Baby Deer's Heroic Escape from Hungry Lion Caught on Tape—And Then, Tragedy
After leaping over a fence at D.C.'s National Zoo, a small deer evaded capture by two hungry lions, drawing elated cheers and joyous tears from hundreds of onlookers. And then, they read the tale's horrible conclusion in today's Washington Post. More » -
#fights
Maybe That Washington Post Newsroom Face Punch Was a Gay Insecurity Thing
Is it possible to milk this WaPo Style Section Intergenerational Fistfight for Journalism Glory for one more day? Most certainly! Because now one of the combatants' colleagues has raised the issue that others were too smart to raise: Homosexual hatred. More » -
#mediacrack
Now Everybody Talk about Terrible Washington Post Stories
In your alluring Tuesday media column: An emerging catalogue of WaPo Styles fuckery, Russia has this whole "journalism" thing nailed, nothing about The Onion is funny except the actual words, and "Twenty ten" means you're gay. More » -
#fights
The Undefeated Champ-een of the Washington Post Style Desk
Yesterday, 68 year-old Washington Post editor Henry Allen (pictured!) hauled off and popped staff writer Manuel Roig-Franzia right in his grill, like BLAM! The Washington City Paper now has all the details, and we are prepared to make a ruling.
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#awesome
Old Washington Post Editor Totally Punches Writer in Face
A couple of writers in the Washington Post Style section filed some heinous "charticle"-type story on deadline, which made their retirement-aged colleague so mad he had to punch one of them in the face, like POW! More » -
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#twits
Meet the Georgetown University Sophomore Who's Hiring a Personal Assistant
Charley Cooper, an undergrad at Georgetown University, is a busy kid. So he's hiring a personal assistant. Ten to twelve bucks an hour. Five or so hours a week. What—you expect him to do his own laundry? More » -
#journalismism
New York Times to Washington Post's Executive Editor: Liar, Liar, Liar.
Revelations surfaced in July that pricey, shady, plainly unethical off-the-record dinners between Washington Post reporters and DC lobbyists were planned. It resulted in the firing of the WaPo's marketing director. Now, the NYT calls out their executive editor. SHOTS FIRED! More » -
#newspapers
The Washington Post Has the Worst Opinion Section in America
On the occasion of this wonderful op-ed on how Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is a violation of our nation's founding document, let us examine the recent crimes of the Washington Post opinion section.
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#hiddenmeanings
Did David Letterman Try to Warn His Blackmailer?
The night before Joe Halderman was busted in a sting operation for trying to extort David Letterman out of $2 million, the Late Show aired a parody of a Geico ad that seems, in retrospect, rather prescient. More » -
#media
Bloomberg and the WaPo have struck a content deal that will shame the LA Times.
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#deathofprint
The Washington Post Launches America's Next Top Pundit
Internet blogs are killing newspapers and stealing from them and full of blowhards who don't know what they're talking about, so where does the Washington Post look for it's next "great pundit"? The internet. More » -
#newthings
Real Newspaper Discovers How Kids Are Fixing Their Bike Gears These Days
The Washington Post discovers a new trend: "Fixed gear bikes," which young folks are reportedly riding all over DC, trendily. This is why we need newspapers. You just don't get this stuff from blogs. [WaPo. Pic via] -
#mediacrack
Jared Kushner Will Not Let a Dollar Come Before More Dollars
In your wonderful Wednesday media column: the NYO's getting a new home, the WaPo redesigns its magazine, Michael Moore has fancy party, and Katie Couric meets Glenn Beck and they totally make out (or do they?). More » -
#mediacrack
BusinessWeek: Wasserstein Out, Layoffs Coming
In your revenue-generating Tuesday media column: the BusinessWeek bidding draws to a close, Americans would pay only a pittance for newspaper websites, Peter Shankman's getting rich somehow, and the WaPo is determined not to write about dwarves. More » -
#mediacrack
Blogger Has Sex
In your picturesque Thursday media column: Journalism used as a tool to obtain sexual satisfaction, WaPo libelously ponders libel, the homeless intern speaks words of hope, and FAIR is cutting writers' pay. More » -
#provinganegative
Great, We Are Still Having the 'But Did Torture Work' Debate
Just as "but they were a huge jerk" is not a legitimate defense of beating someone to death, "but it produced actionable intelligence" is not a legitimate defense of torture. Not that that actually matters anymore! More » -
#journalismism
Real Newspaper With Real Reporters Finds Fake Trend
Is it possible to spin a fabricated trend story with a local angle out of the fact that Jayson Blair is now a life coach in Northern Virginia? The Washington Post found a way! More »
