Comments on: City Agency Fields Calls on Doinking Washington City Paper Cover

By: TL

TL — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:24:56 +0000

Barry's next bfd- not a cover-worthy issue. Especially that angle. But WCP sure looks low and desperate this week.

By: Frank Winstead

Frank Winstead — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:02:10 +0000

"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.

By: Downtown Rez

Downtown Rez — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:34:02 +0000

What's foul is the character, not that it was exposed.

By: candycane1

candycane1 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:18:39 +0000

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!!!!

By: SayitSprayIt

SayitSprayIt — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:44:44 +0000

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.

By: Swifty

Swifty — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:37:47 +0000

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.

By: Mr T in DC

Mr T in DC — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:24:52 +0000

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!

By: Clyde

Clyde — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:38:20 +0000

I couldn't find a copy anywhere yesterday. CP: Please post a high resolution image of the cover at your website.

By: Q

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:42:45 +0000

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.

By: SayItSprayIt

SayItSprayIt — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:29:28 +0000

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.

By: Angry Al Gonzales

Angry Al Gonzales — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:57:01 +0000

The First Amendment allows this cover. Go live in Iran or China if you hate freedom. Morons.

By: Father, Son & Holy Ghost

Father, Son & Holy Ghost — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:59:06 +0000

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.

By: cminus

cminus — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:48:25 +0000

I agree with Gradie, except that she somehow thinks that P-R-I-N-T-E-D spells "said".

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:46:13 +0000

Classic! This is the best marketing headline since "The b**** Set Me Up!"

By: Creativemeat

Creativemeat — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:26:59 +0000

But what does creativeloafing think?