It’s been a rough patch for WUSA reporter Andrea McCarren in the wake of a story she filed earlier this month about how easy it was for some area youths to buy alcohol. Yesterday she told CNN about the nasty reactions her story has produced.
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…
Fishbowl D.C. scooped even the Washington Post’s own gossip columnists on word that Brad Pitt was reportedly visiting the paper’s newsroom this afternoon. Says a Postie: “since word got out, female producers from network news shops are clamoring to stop by and just pay a “visit” to the newsroom to see friends they’ve never visited before in the newsroom.”Patrick Gavin says Pitt was there consulting with Post editor R.B. Brenner in preparation for his upcoming…
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,…
In the December issue of the Washingtonian, the magazine lauds the “Best of Washington,” including restaurants, dance clubs, pizza, late night dining, hip clothes, and more. Among the magazine’s bevy of lists is a ranking of the “50 Best & Most Influential Journalists,” written by Garrett Graff, formerly of Fishbowl DC fame. While journalists for the usual suspects abounded — Mike Allen of Time; Dan Balz, David Broder, Steve Coll, Marc Fisher, Al Kamen, Howard…
Back in September, we let you know that the Washington Post Company was looking to purchase the online magazine Slate from Microsoft and bring it under its wing. Well, it’s now officially a done deal. Slate Editor Jacob Weisberg penned a goodbye letter today, letting readers know that they’re on to new and exciting things, though apparently not that much will actually be different: Readers are likely to notice little, if any, change in the…
The presidential debates are finally over, so let the punditry begin. The Post’s Howard Kurtz who offers his usual rundown of what the major media outlets are saying in Media Notes, reporting: The Tempe debate lacked any sense of electricity — at least compared to the Yankees/Red Sox game on Fox, which undoubtedly cut into the candidates’ audience. These guys know each others’ moves. There was no obvious turning point. And the pundit reaction was…
The first presidential debate is over and now the fun really begins. It’s time for all the analysis, fact checking, second guessing, and partisan spin that this town is famous for. The Posts’ Howard Kurtz offers up a national round up in this morning’s Media Notes column, saying that “[i]t was, in fact, a relentlessly serious debate — Iraq, Iran, Sudan, North Korea — in which both Bush and Kerry, both wearing American flag lapel…