City Agency Fields Calls on Doinking Washington City Paper Cover
Michael Rupert, spokesperson for the city's Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, confirms receiving five inquiries today about whether his agency can do something about what the Washington City Paper prints.
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3:53 pm
So, are you asking us to make more calls on your behalf?
4:11 pm
Man, I even think George Carlin would be ashamed of this cover. Freedom of the Press being what it is, I expect some cries for decency and censorship, followed by an ACLU statement. Like several bloggers have said before, WCP is accessible in many public places where adolecents and young kids have access. THANKS WCP for causing simultaneous Sex Education conversations tonight at the dinner table!
4:27 pm
The Froint Cover is disgusting, the person who printed that should be fired. It is one thing to print disgusting things in the paper. Young adults also read that paper and it is embarassing for them to see one of their City Officials on the fromt page of paper with that heading. It is wrong and it should have never been printed. IT IS DISGUSTING.
4:44 pm
Gradie, maybe this wouldn't happen if the city didn't have a public official who threw their mistresses out of rooms as punishment for not giving them oral sex? I think I'd direct the outrage elsewhere.
5:01 pm
Come on WCP. You know that's inappropriate. Sure, of course you're within your rights. But you know you should put it inside.
5:08 pm
I'd have made the last word "'Cause" followed by ellipses and finished the headline inside. I bet more people would have picked up the paper, too, because they wanted to know the whole story.
5:33 pm
This is nothing compared to what I recall while being in Southern California seeing the cover of the OC Weekly. A religious college made it a point to throw all the papers they could find in the area in the garbage. Not that I recomend that here. I think this is totally appropriate, it is true. It's a damn public official. I don't recall any editing of some of Senator Larry Craig's accusers in his 36 hour lynching.
This is totally appropriate for a crooked crackhead politician. I would expect nothing less. It seems only his constituents believe otherwise.
Like Birds of a Feather...
6:26 pm
But what does creativeloafing think?
8:46 pm
Classic! This is the best marketing headline since "The b**** Set Me Up!"
8:48 pm
I agree with Gradie, except that she somehow thinks that P-R-I-N-T-E-D spells "said".
8:59 pm
People should contact the FCC over this and complain. The fine would make their "editor" think twice about obscenities being printed.
People should also contact Metro and complain, who carries the largest number of their distribution boxes.
It is in very poor taste, and I've always been a city paper fan. This was way past the line.
9:57 pm
The First Amendment allows this cover. Go live in Iran or China if you hate freedom. Morons.
10:29 pm
This shocked me, at first. But then I quickly realized that CP has done the entire city a service that no voice from our own government has yet done (even with David Catania's lone criticism), what no citizen activist has done, and what no media had yet done: take the gutter filth that Barry rolls in and spray it directly on each of us.
We all know what Barry does, even his professed supporters know. And the only shared trait among Barry critics and loyalists is this: we've come to tolerate him.
That may not have ended with this City Paper cover, but it's a moment in contributing to the beginning of the end.
The cover is shocking and disgusting and shameful. And it's overdue.
1:42 am
Most of the public places and businesses I frequent have conspicuously removed the bundles. Either there was a mass acquisition of papers (not hardly) or others have voted on the cover by throwing the whole paper away.
8:38 am
I couldn't find a copy anywhere yesterday. CP: Please post a high resolution image of the cover at your website.
9:24 am
I like the cover, don't find anything wrong with it at all. The real problem is being saddled with a crazy former-mayer, current Councilmember who has no judgement and gets into these messes in the first place. Go City Paper!
10:37 am
Good work City Paper. Agreed that this kind of press is long overdue for Barry. I applaud it and hope you guys continue to walk the line and exercise the First Amendment to it's fullest extent.
10:44 am
The City Paper may want to explore legal options should they discover instances of mass disposal of their newspapers. I recall an incident in the 1990s wherein the then-new New York Blade was being disposed of by anti-gay activists. Publisher Don Michaels confronted the self-appointed censors, and apparently the culprits were in violation of either state or federal law.
11:18 am
I don't like this. That doesn't make it wrong regarding freedom of the press. What's foul about this is the person who took the private voivemails and made them public. That's the major dramam queen. That person needs a good kick in the ass!!!!
11:34 am
What's foul is the character, not that it was exposed.
12:02 pm
"On bended knee" is Ward 3 elite-speak for the act described on your cover. Among Ward 3 commoners the phrase "the backyard bow-wow doing another backroom bow down to developers" is heard far too often. I don't understand but Wilson Building insiders supposedly refer to "getting a 108". Is that a DC Code reference or some other reference to law? What your cover lacks in aesthetics it makes up for with directness.
5:24 pm
Barry's next bfd- not a cover-worthy issue. Especially that angle. But WCP sure looks low and desperate this week.