After reading Occupy D.C.'s long and cranky letter about recent Post coverage of the movement and "breathless" tweets by staff writer Tim Craig as he walked through the McPherson Square site, I checked in with Craig to see if he had a response.
While the letter complains about Craig's language and questions his objectivity in describing chalk markings [...]
Occupy D.C. has some harsh words for the Post and staff writer/star-protest-tweeter Tim Craig:
The Post’s guidelines on Twitter and other social media use expressly state: “Post journalists must refrain from writing, tweeting or posting anything… that could be perceived as reflecting political, racial, sexist, religious or other bias or favoritism. When posting content online, ask yourself: [...]
I just don't find this Post story on a so-called "surge" in violence among young women very convincing. The argument goes thus:
This year, four unrelated pairs of women were involved in arguments that ended in homicide; one pair of roommates at Howard University had a fight that culminated in one allegedly throwing a boiling pot [...]
The Post Co. is really committed to the idea of ladies' blogs, apparently. Postie Melinda Hennenberger tweeted this morning that next week the paper is launching its own women's interest blog called...wait for it..."That's What She Said."
The blog comes after the 2009 launch of Slate Magazine's DoubleX as an independent blog—which was eventually folded back [...]
In May, when the Washington Post announced that Ned Martel would be leaving his perch atop an increasingly insurrectionist Style section, the news was accompanied by a memo that, for a brief minute, made it look like the controversial editor’s new gig represented an upward move. Martel, it announced, would be covering the 2012 campaign, [...]
I hate to be that guy, but maybe this person should just go back to Alaska.
Last year, when Jon Stewart organized his "Rally to Restore Sanity," the Washington Post was one of several organizations to send a memo out to its newsroom staff that forbade them from participating:
Events, like those organized by Glenn Beck or involving Jon Stewart and Steven [sic] Colbert, are political, and therefore Post newsroom employees may not [...]
The Post continues to roll out its polling of area sports fans with a story about black Redskins fans. Apparently, black people have gotten over the whole years-of-segregation thing in order to cheer for the only local football team. In fact, black fans have a far more favorable view of the team than white fans [...]
Last night I was following along with the #occupyoakland tweets from some folks who were at the protest in Northern California. One attendee—a journo-cartoonist (yes, that is a thing, yes, it is awesome) I've edited in the past named Susie Cagle—even tweeted as she was being teargassed and later posted a short video:
Funny enough, this morning [...]
Occupy Half-Smokes: The District was protest central yesterday, with marches tied to the MLK Jr. Memorial dedication overlapping with the ongoing Occupy D.C. encampments in Freedom Plaza and McPherson Square. Raheem DeVaughn and Cornel West were arrested outside the Supreme Court in one march, against the Citizens United decision that essentially found corporations had a [...]
Looks like "sit tight during an emergency" wasn't good enough advice for the Post's editorial board, who criticized emergency preparedness in the Washington region and called for a regional emergency authority body.
The mayor has the authority to order an evacuation from the city, but beyond that there is no single entity with authority to advise [...]
The Post editorial board weighs in on the practice of arresting those whose license plates have been expired for more than 30 days:
Make no mistake: No one should be driving with expired plates or a lapsed registration. Those who do — whether by oversight or commission — should be penalized. We recognize the legitimate police concern [...]
Young men play poker, and the Post is on it:
Long identified with saloons, cigars and Mississippi riverboats, poker in recent years has found an unlikely home: in dormitory rooms, on the computer screens of clever young men. [Eric] Froehlich won a major World Series of Poker tournament in 2005 at 21, making him the youngest [...]
Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy's bosses may have forced him to go on Twitter–with mixed results–but rest assured that Milloy has not dropped his cranky-uncle persona just because he's taken the paper's mandatory social-media class.
To wit: Last week marked the first anniversary of the meanest, most polarizing, and most irresistible political label in recent D.C. [...]
The Post's Vanessa Williams goes in search of the "cosmopolitan canopy" in Washington region—where people of different races feel comfortable mixing. And apparently it's in Langley Park, Md.:
Nancy Navarro says she finds diversity when she shops at the Red Apple Market in Langley Park, which she often leaves with more than the ingredients for dinner after [...]
