Comments on: Our Morning Roundup: A Metrobus Strikes Again

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:30:52 +0000

"WTF?" Are you serious. Well, I guess you just want to use the word fuck, or tell me to fuck off, so to that I'll just have to say, I love you too. Please - no cursing!! Ok, but seriously. No - I am not just onto to you about Metro. There are many other things I have complained about (mostly the 'tude). But also the fact that you all don't get out the door to do some on the scene reporting!!!? I just don't understand that. I don't think you'd necessarily uncover a conspiracy if you did go to the scene, but one thing coverage of Metrobus and Metrorail, for that matter, crashes lacks is a detailed description of what went down, and you cannot get that unless you grab your jacket and head out there and talk to people who saw it or to people who talked to witnesses so you can track them down. There's just no substitute for seeing how the roads are laid out, if it's two lane or four lane and stuff like that. It would seem that you have to get a sense of things before you try to convey it to someone else. I mean, am I really going on about the virtues of being on the scene? Do I have to?

By: U Street Reader

U Street Reader — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:49:28 +0000

A quick grammar correction:

"It’s not so much a column as bad comment bait of which I am sometimes guilty."

No need for "of" at the end.

By: Mike DeBonis

Mike DeBonis — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:24:47 +0000

Fred, Seriously, WTF? Every time there's some Metro something or other you're on our ass about how we're not reporting it, as though if we show up personally we're going to uncover some massive WMATA conspiracy to mow down innocent pedestrians. What gives? What's your angle?

By: Jason Cherkis

Jason Cherkis — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:45:37 +0000

Fred: four days a week for I don't know how long we've done a morning roundup. It's our chance to link to other people's work. No boots are required. We were all over the city yesterday. Didn't you notice our blog was totally sucking while we were out and about? Sorry to disappoint you, we were covering the "taxi cab thing."

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:43:49 +0000

Your headline is somewhat offensive, considering that all you did was a cut and paste job, you didn't go out there and find the story yourself and seem disinclined to do so, but hey! posting a headline with all sorts of 'tude - that I can do, right?! Heck yeah.

Why don't you guys put boots on the ground and cover what is happening in this city (beside the taxi cab thing).