“This is unfair and it is an insult to D.C. voters who are being treated as though they need the hand of a corporate media operation to steer them to poll-approved candidates,” Shallal said in a statement.

In which Congressman John Lewis and Russ Ptacek/the WUSA9 team square off in “Happy” viral dance videos. Whoever wins, we all lose.

In a letter to Mónica Palacio, the acting director of OHR, the Ward 6 Councilmember cites WUSA9’s ongoing reports on how some drivers “disproportionately” pass by black people.

WUSA9’s Bruce Johnson and Danielle Gill were attacked by a woman while reporting on a story yesterday.

WUSA9 is pushing a petition asking for members of Congress to share the pain that federal workers would endure if budget sequestration goes into effect. Unfortunately, the petition is full of holes.

We heartily heart Fishbowl DC for digging up these sweet 1970s-era spots for local television news channels. Here’s one for WJLA in 1976: Though it hardly holds a candle to these 1979 promos for WDVM9, the old call letters for WUSA9. Dig the sparkling, sweeping graphics effects!…

If you haven’t been watching The Tonight Show since Conan O’Brien took over the show last week, you might have missed a segment that aired Monday night featuring local WUSA-9 TV news reporter Armando Trull. The sketch, which Conan dubbed “Trull Busters,” features a clip of Trull reporting on a story outside a Metro station (looks like it could be Silver Spring, but it’s hard to make out), only to have a portly gentlemen…

Straight from WUSA9’s 5 p.m. broadcast, Bruce Johnson reports that Marion Barry says he needs a kidney transplant. “I was just distracted, to be frank with you,” Barry said of his failure to file his 2007 tax returns. The risk of jail time “wasn’t an issue” in Barry’s mind, he said, since the last time this came up, a judge threw out prosecutors’s request to imprison the Ward 8 Council member for violating his parole….

WUSA9.com is teasing a Bruce Johnson interview with Marion Barry in which the mayor-for-life reportedly admits he failed to file his 2007 income tax return, and then says he failed to do so because he was distracted by a serious medical condition. What serious medical condition might that be? Was it serious enough that Barry should have disclosed it before he ran for reelection to represent Ward 8 on the D.C. Council last year?…