The revolt against the Washington Post’s blogoscabbing program has spread from Twitter to blogs across the nation and beyond. As a result, we had our best day ever last Thursday…
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The Post Owes the County Council an Apology
Do you still read the Washington Post’s coverage of Montgomery County? If you do, you know its editorials routinely portray MoCo politicians as tools of the public employee unions, especially…
A Little Credit for the Blogs, Please?
On Thursday at 7:46 PM, Red Maryland broke the story that Carmen Amedori was leaving Brian Murphy’s GOP gubernatorial ticket. Today at 10:42 AM, the Post reported the same thing…
Twitter to Post: Bloggers Aren’t Your Slaves
Egged on by Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas and film critic Roger Ebert, thousands of Twitterers are pouring in to MPW to read our rejection of the Washington Post’s “offer”…
Why MPW Turned Down the Washington Post
Five weeks ago, I received an unsolicited offer from the Washington Post. They asked if they could post my picture and biography on their website and link to every new…
Who Will be the Sole Survivor?
Several entities, including a couple with money, are getting into the local online politics-news-aggregation business. But as someone who publishes original political content for free, I can tell you that…
The Post conducted a new poll of local residents and noted their generally high marks for Metro. But we see a bigger message here: Washington’s Metrorail system is still popular…
MPW Poll: Post vs. MCEA
Yesterday, nearly half of the elected state and county officials in Montgomery County debated the relative endorsement value of the Post and the Apple Ballot. Today, we’ll look at the…
The Washington area’s paper of record has launched an all-out holy war against the Montgomery County Education Association (MCEA), the county’s most powerful labor union. From a political perspective, this…