Today, the Wonkettes have answered reader requests to take on the struggling Post effort to chronicle local political news, blog-style. It seems that the Post’s D.C. Wire has been on an unintentional hiatus for over three days, and their commenters are letting them hear about it. Wonkette reposts this excerpt, from the comment stream of the Wire’s latest post (on February 17):
3+ days and counting.
They manage to put out a paper every day, even on three day-weekends. Six writers can’t manage one posting since mid-day 3 days ago.
To quote Yoda: Do or do not; there is no try.
Posted by: david | February 20, 2006 06:09 PM
david,
First, this is a reported blog containing true facts, not just freeform opinions and ruminations. We like to think of it as quality over quantity (of course, you guys are the final judge). Second, we all have day jobs writing for the daily paper. Third, cut us some slack, it’s a three-day weekend…
Posted by: Eric Weiss | February 20, 2006 07:30 PM
Eric:
Fine. Then its not a blog.
Best,
DavidPosted by: David | February 20, 2006 09:16 PM
The thing we love about this is Wire (and Post) staff writer Eric Weiss’ bit about the true facts. These facts include, for instance, that Ward 3 candidate Sam Brooks has used campaign funds to order Chipotle. Or, more dubiously, there’s the time that Weiss assigned equal guilt in negative Ward 3 campaigning to Sam Brooks and one of his opponents, Jonathan Rees. You can imagine the comment traffic the Wire has attracted since then.
We’d like to personally thank Weiss for giving Brooks’ opponent another monkey wrench with which to bludgeon us via email spam. We’d be upset, but we’ve already seen how squarely the Wire has placed itself in Rees’ sights. Maybe that’s why they’re a little slow with the posting. Sorting out those IP addresses can be a pain, no?
Update: DCist (and, you know, Wonkette) delivers results! Lori Montgomery gets the Wire back on the wagon with a post on Michael Brown.
