Howard Kurtz’s WaPo column today concerns the kerfuffle over Tim Page’s angry email to Ward 8 Council Member Marion Barry’s office that we told you about yesterday. As you’ll recall, Page, who writes about classical music for the Post, received an unsolicited press release from Barry’s office about the city’s deal with Specialty Hospitals of America to purchase the Greater Southeast Community Hospital. Page then fired off an angry email in which he called the…

In a post just published at the post.blog, Jim Brady, WashingtonPost.com’s Executive Editor, announced that Ben Domenech, who on Tuesday launched a conservative blog on the site, has resigned his position. His resignation comes on the heels of multiple accusations of plagiarism. Since his debut earlier this week, both Domenech and the Post had come under fire for the content of the blog and the qualifications of its author. But as the week went on,…

As we reported last week, the Post has finally come around to the ugly reality that online comments are not all peaches and cream. And today the Post is inviting some notable bloggers to discuss how it can better handle comments on its increasing number of blogs and, by extension, explore the issue of online ethics and interactivity. The online chat starts at 1 p.m. and will feature Jeff Jarvis from Buzz Machine; Jane Hamsher…

Courtesy of our media-obsessed friends over at Fishbowl DC, today we find that the Post has been struggling with commenters on their official blog, so much so that yesterday they resorted to shutting down comments altogether. In a message posted yesterday afternoon, Jim Brady, Executive Editor of washingtonpost.com, wrote: Great journalism companies need feedback from readers to stay sharp. But there are things that we said we would not allow, including personal attacks, the use…