Comments on: Brauchli Intervenes in Style Fistfight

By: Everlasting cogstockers. « Whipped Cream Difficulties

Everlasting cogstockers. « Whipped Cream Difficulties — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:19:55 +0000

[...] story has been covered here and here; in addition, Gene Weingarten of the WP (and a writer whose work I have a complicated [...]

By: Grumpy

Grumpy — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:38:17 +0000

Can't be a fistfight if dude didn't punch back.

Old ass jarhead went 'Woody Hayes' on a staffer...LMAO

He went Gunnery Sgt. Hartmann on Private Pyle...How great is that, a Full Metal Jacket scene right there at the beloved Post??

Good times...Good times

By: Allen v. Roig-Franzia: From the Beginning - City Desk - Washington City Paper

Allen v. Roig-Franzia: From the Beginning - City Desk - Washington City Paper — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:10:55 +0000

[...] Washington Post Style section staffers Manuel Roig-Franzia and Henry Allen. Those two got into a tussle on Friday afternoon in the vicinity of Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli’s temporary office on [...]

By: Chris Peterson

Chris Peterson — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:07:34 +0000

Man, I ache to read some more Henry Allen stuff. His prose kicks butt in ways that no one should break up. In the early '90s his essays were the best in newspaper journalism essays. To read them was reason to move to the big city.

I hope his typing fingers are still intact after the newsroom what-have-you.

By: Michael Powell

Michael Powell — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:47:44 +0000

I don't advocate taking pops at fellow laborers in the newsroom, and Manuel is a good guy, but I'm here to say there are none better than Henry Allen. A magician of a writer, a thinker of Beat thoughts, and a great, hillarious not to mention hallucinogenic colleague. My only grievance with Henry is that with his own words he set the bar so very high ...

By: Not Senility

Not Senility — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:47:13 +0000

The paper has not slid into Senility, Barrett.

It's dove into Neoconservatism, with Charlie The Kraut, Sick Willie Kristol, and the Brother Kagan. Fred Hiatt's a pimp for Avigdor Lieberman and little else.

Read The Post and even George Will sounds like a leftist.

By: michael barrett

michael barrett — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:38:04 +0000

Given his long track record, I am inclined to side Allen also. Style is not as compelling a read as it once was and, like the newspaper itself, seems sliding into senility.

By: Comrade Al Gonzales

Comrade Al Gonzales — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:37:53 +0000

A good old-fashioned newsroom brawl. Put a beefsteak on that black eye, have a shot from the bottle I keep in the bottom drawer, get back out there & make deadline, then let's all meet at the Post Pub at 5 pm to discuss it all.

By: Alpine McGregor

Alpine McGregor — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:17:19 +0000

After a careful review of the three journalists' work, and given my penchant for favoring hard-nosed trash-talkers, I'm going to side with Mr. Allen on this one.

Here's my rationale:
http://rumorsontheinternets.org/2009/11/02/wapo-editors-brawl-in-newsroom/

By: Mrs. Graham

Mrs. Graham — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:13:04 +0000

Would Henry mind doing something about Paul Farhi too?

By: Brauchli on WaPo fight: ‘We take this incident seriously’ | Obama Biden White House

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:51:42 +0000

[...] that Allen punched Roig-Franzia surfaced Monday morning on FishbowlDC, Washingtonian and City Paper (which reported Brauchli was traveling [...]

By: Chris Peterson

Chris Peterson — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:17:25 +0000

I just want to know cologne the fist throwing Allen uses. I need some to macho up my game.

By: Thom

Thom — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:19:33 +0000

The tensions and resulting contretemps/disasters at the Post all revolve one way or another around the attempt by the cabal of old hags led by desk diving diva Sally Quinn to control things from behind the scenes.

If Katherine Weymouth doesn't wake up soon to the threat this posse represents to the organization moving forward and oust them once and for all from the building there will be no turning back from the drain.

Honoring your grandmother's legacy Miss Weymouth does not mean forever hanging onto dangerous old relics, it means focusing on the forward momentum and doing what is right.

By: Chris Peterson

Chris Peterson — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:57:19 +0000

I know Allen is a former Marine and all that, but he seems like a little guy to me. Was this a battle of little guys? (Macho guys no doubt, though, 'cause who doesn't like a dust up between word crafters.)