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Michael Calderone's Blog: Allen surprised by WaPo fistfight coverage
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At last! The docudrama re-enactment of that fistfight at the Washington Post! http://bit.ly/2JsxQI (Background: http://bit.ly/2ztea9 ) 25 days ago |
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Newsroom fist fight! (All right, one cranky Washington Post copy editor threw a punch. But still.) http://bit.ly/3xtmPn 25 days ago |
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From a friend back east: http://bit.ly/39m8Mg 25 days ago |
Monday's Mini-Report
Political Animal —
... on independence-seeking ethnic Albanians. (thanks to D.D. for the tip) * The abuse of power scandal surrounding Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is pretty serious stuff. * Nice charts on why U.S. health care costs so much. * A tentative agreement on a media shield law . * When it came to his employees leaking the name of a covert CIA official during a war, Dick Cheney sure was forgetful . Indeed, he couldn't recall much of anything. * An actual fist fight among staffers at the Washington Post ? Wow. * Making higher ed more ...
Allen surprised by WaPo fistfight coverage
Michael Calderone's Blog —
... Following early reports, City Paper's Eric Wemple has more details, including some back-and-forth between Roiz-Franzia and Allen that took place before Friday. While there was chatter in the Post newsroom that Roiz-Franzia had been defending a colleague, the two apparently had issues days before that led up to the altercation. ...
Punches at the Post
Maryland Politics Watch —
This goes into the category of "you gotta be kidding me." Politico has details on a fist fight at the Post and the Washington City Paper has the background. Somewhere, the Boy King is telling people to grow up. ...
Tabloidification Of America Continues!
Jules Crittenden —
... the idea that a fistfight in a newsroom would turn into a news story was unthinkable,” Allen said when reached Monday evening. “The guys in the sports department at the New York Daily News, they had so many, you wouldn’t even look up.” So he is a tabloid man. God bless him. Meanwhile, “second worst story I’ve seen in Style in 43 years” is pretty specific. Knockdown drag-out details and what constituted the first and second worst Style stories in 43 years at Washington’s City Paper . The management geniuses at the Post apparently resolved the matter by banishing Allen, who ...
The downside of Marines as newspaper editors
The Best Defense —
... The downside of Marines in the newsroom is that if
you call them a really bad name, they might take a swing at you, as ...
The Monkeys vs. the Red-Light Machines
Hit & Run —
... The Washington Post Style section, when not producing
in-house fisticuffs or
front-page examinations of A-Rod's snot, is capable of some
useful reporting. Such as within this
feature today on red-light cameras:
A handful of cities used them a decade ago. Now they're in more
than 400, spread across two dozen states. Montgomery County
started out with 18 cameras in 2007. Now it has 119. Maryland
just took the program statewide last month, and Prince George's
is putting up 50. The District ...
