A timeless episode, in which Erik sifts through a deep pile to give props to the Post’s Ready to Rent advertorial supplement (”a humdinger of a publication”) and to Asian Fortune (”you can’t beat this magazine, folks”) for its snazzy, bloggy layout and its treatment of evergreen stories. The black sheep? None other than the InTowner, which Erik upbraids for flacking for a brokerage firm.

Inspirational quote: “Good on Asian Fortune for dealing with an ages-old issue here…this could be 1880 for all I know!”

This week’s episode—a must-watch!—centers on the Examiner’s super-late scoop on the whole “D.C. ranks number 1 in cocaine use” thing (hey, even we got there first!). Metro Weekly, meanwhile, gets dinged four times (count ‘em!) for a.) an “ugly cover”; b.) a weak corrections policy; c.) an overly anonymous scene page; and d.) a shamefully male-centric masthead.

Inspirational quote of the week: “Get a woman on staff…women, women, women!”

In which Erik gives prop to former CP reporter Jessica Gould, scolds the Examiner for “buying the tort reformers’ angle,” refuses to read Baltimore Gay Life, and dings the auto section of the Washington Hispanic for overstepping its advertorial bounds.

PLUS: A stirring bonus segment in which Erik lobs a BIG ONE at CP’s own glass house. No way are you touching that remote!

BIGGEST COMEBACK SINCE EMINEM: Erik Wemple is all sound and fury this week, taking down the Post for copy errors and showing some love to the Blade—for its investigative work on gays in the military—and the InTowner for one of its…distinctive headlines.

Don’t touch that remote!

In which Erik extols the unexpected joys of the Sunday Examiner and introduces a new fuego feature: the battle of the Spanish-language weeklies!

In which Erik disses untrenchant Obama prophecies in the New York Times Magazine and scolds the Post for botching the your/you’re perplex. Family Magazine, meanwhile, sports a rather gruesome cover this week.

In other news, Erik gets a frio for gluing that Family Mag cover on the fuego side.

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A MUST-WATCH in which Erik lampoons the Informer and the Express for their mind-numbing election stories and shows off his command of la langue française while questioning the “global view” of Regina Belle.

Hope y’all brought mittens.

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In which The Hill and Pool & Spa give Erik the shivers. The Post, on the other hand, gives us a unique glimpse into the process behind their captions.

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In which Erik chastises the Dupont Current for its misleading real estate section and rewards the InTowner for—get this—their snappy headlines!

Quote of the week: “That’s as succinct as they’ve been in ten years!” Scary part is, that’s probably true.

Meanwhile, the good folks at Reason front a totally unreasonable headline. Erik’s flip-out, and Riggs’ response, below the jump.

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