The Examiner has plastered Metrobuses with its new “Freedom Isn’t Free” ad campaign:
At Washington City Paper, we agree—and it’s not just freedom that comes with some kind of price tag. After all, there’s no such thing as a free brunch.
Illustrations by Brooke Hatfield
The Examiner reported this morning that Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier and her inner circle will be sweating at a private gym built next to her office. The news would seem to come at a bad time—as in budget-crunch time.
But Lanier e-mailed City Desk today to issue a full-throated denial. The gym, [...]
At the southwest corner of 18th and Columbia, our home turf! Way to stay classy, Washington Examiner.
This whole snow story just won't die, will it? You got:
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—Famous Channel 4 sportscaster George Michael dies at 70. Also, more on the snowball fight, as City Desk reports on an effort by D.C. police [...]
Since it's been established here, here, and here that terminology matters, it seems worth pointing out the screaming language on the front page of the Washington Examiner yesterday: "Suburban dreams turn into ghettoes." The headline inside the paper said: "Foreclosure crisis creating suburban slums."
The story by Bill Myers and David Sherfinski began:
Two years of economic [...]
The Washington Post runs a Metro story about the fans who spend a day watching practice at Redskins Park. (Lemme quote Allen Iverson: "PRACTICE? We're talking PRACTICE?") One of the fans quoted in the piece is Peter Lalich. Though the story doesn't go into it, Lalich was the Everybody's-All-American kid from Springfield who was headed [...]
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 [...]
Good morning, City Desk readers, and welcome to another edition of Freedom Friday. We're wrapping up our Summer Music Guide as I type, and I can assure you that it's going to be a doozie–the kind of doozie you'll likely keep on your coffee table from May 15 through September 1 as a quick reference [...]
Dear everyone preparing "First 100 Days" packages for tomorrow: HAPPY TUESDAY, SUCKERS!
Love, the Examiner
Today's Examiner has an opinion piece by Noemie Emery that is just so ironical, I had to blog it! It relies on a metaphor.
This metaphor takes five paragraphs to unspool.
THIS WEEK: The Washington Times digs Democratic sex scandals; the Washington Informer misinforms; Bob Woodward writes a yawner; the Express does some textbook critter-pandering; and Erik withholds the vaunted 'fuego' designation.
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