Comments on: Is There Room for Local in Washington Times 3.0? http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2013/01/02/is-there-room-for-local-in-washington-times-3-0/ 68.3 Square Miles of D.C. News and Opinion Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:10:15 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Jim Ed http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2013/01/02/is-there-room-for-local-in-washington-times-3-0/comment-page-1/#comment-1112173 Jim Ed Thu, 03 Jan 2013 05:41:38 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=97216#comment-1112173 I just hope the sports department survives the executioner's axe this time. Like most locals, I don't give a damn what Emily Miller thinks or even bother to crack their politics section. However, Rich Campbell absolutely shames the Post's beat reporters week in and week out covering the Redskins, err Pigskins. Also, Patrick Stevens is the best local college hoops scribe working, and Nathan Frenno has become a hell of a features writer. Also, for what it's worth, the racist trolls on WaTimes articles are SO much more entertaining than the ones at the Post. Where else can you find an article about an ice rink opening in Georgetown being a cover for a super secret arctic FEMA concentration camp experiment? I just hope the sports department survives the executioner's axe this time. Like most locals, I don't give a damn what Emily Miller thinks or even bother to crack their politics section. However, Rich Campbell absolutely shames the Post's beat reporters week in and week out covering the Redskins, err Pigskins. Also, Patrick Stevens is the best local college hoops scribe working, and Nathan Frenno has become a hell of a features writer.

Also, for what it's worth, the racist trolls on WaTimes articles are SO much more entertaining than the ones at the Post. Where else can you find an article about an ice rink opening in Georgetown being a cover for a super secret arctic FEMA concentration camp experiment?

]]> By: DC http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2013/01/02/is-there-room-for-local-in-washington-times-3-0/comment-page-1/#comment-1112171 DC Wed, 02 Jan 2013 22:08:51 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=97216#comment-1112171 ""In our local coverage, we will favor stories about local issues put in a national context, so that our online audience from California to Florida will also find them informative and useful," Jackson writes. In other words: Local better be national." You got the translation wrong. What that really means is that no reporting of DC will occur that is not scientifically designed to stroke the racist and resentful pleasure cortex of the Times' aging and angry (and dwindling) "national" reader base. So out with articles about, say, a new exhibit at the Phillips, and in with Marion Barry quotes. ""In our local coverage, we will favor stories about local issues put in a national context, so that our online audience from California to Florida will also find them informative and useful," Jackson writes. In other words: Local better be national."

You got the translation wrong. What that really means is that no reporting of DC will occur that is not scientifically designed to stroke the racist and resentful pleasure cortex of the Times' aging and angry (and dwindling) "national" reader base. So out with articles about, say, a new exhibit at the Phillips, and in with Marion Barry quotes.

]]> By: Frankie Pentangeli http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2013/01/02/is-there-room-for-local-in-washington-times-3-0/comment-page-1/#comment-1112169 Frankie Pentangeli Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:30:27 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=97216#comment-1112169 Just bulldoze that piece of shit and widen NY Ave. Win-win. Just bulldoze that piece of shit and widen NY Ave. Win-win.

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