In a must-read essay, Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander gathers confidential feedback from Post reporters about their ongoing financial difficulties and buyouts and reports their consensus: quality will drop. We…
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Marc Fisher Leaves the Post (Updated)
Marc Fisher wrote a farewell column today. Like many of you, I am surprised and saddened that one of the D.C. area’s greatest independent voices is leaving.Fisher’s entire essay is…
The mainstream media (MSM) did a sparse job in covering the District 4 special election, a swing-vote race with implications for next year. Here are twenty stories they missed ranked…
WSSC Wild Child Takes on the Boy King
OK, it’s not King Kong vs. Godzilla. Or Darth Vader vs. Doctor Doom. Or even Moe vs. Larry vs. Curly. But in a throwdown that just had to happen, two…
The Washington Post’s Boy King – editorial intern Steven Stein – has been seething over our exposure of his presence at the newspaper. So when we blogged about MCGEO’s handing…
Boy King Sends Minion to Troll MPW, Part One
The Washington Post may be ignoring our exposing its use of out-of-state intern Steve Stein to write its Maryland editorials, but Stein is not. The Boy King launched an undercover…
Right now, 44% of the traffic to this site is comprised of direct visits to our article, “What the Post Does Not Want You to Know About Disability.” That’s fairly…
We will give anti-government employee Post intern Steven Stein credit for one thing: he’s a persistent young man. His latest editorial attacks a County Council compromise on the disability issue…
MCGEO Takes On the Post (Updated)
The Municipal and County Government Employees Organization (MCGEO) has launched a vigorous counter-attack against labor’s nemesis, the Washington Post. Its weapon of choice: Maryland Politics Watch.Back in January, a Post…
Politicians React to Boy King
Last week, we revealed that the Washington Post had hired an intern from Los Angeles and Emory University who knew nothing about our metro area to write local editorials. That…