In statement, WaPo's chief spokesperson @@kathymbaird confirms "a number of positions will be eliminated," resulting in a single digit cut to its workforce.
"This will not be a net reduction in Post headcount," Baird adds, saying the paper will invest in certain areas in 2023. pic.twitter.com/dA05Vj8gR8
Liberal Washington Post columnist (pardon our redundancy) Ruth Marcus saw Gibbs comment and raised him one by telling Chuck Todd and Savannah Guthrie that the left and the blogosphere are “deranged” because they just expect so much of President Obama. He’s only human, damn it, people!
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs caught hell last week for stating that “the Professional Left is on drugs.”
Liberal Washington Post columnist (pardon our redundancy) Ruth Marcus saw Gibbs comment and raised him one by telling Chuck Todd and Savannah Guthrie that the left and the blogosphere are “deranged” because they just expect so much of President Obama. He’s only human, damn it, people!
Got that? It’s taken 19 months, but Obama has finally gone from Superman to “He’s only human.”
At the rate he’s going, in another 19 months they’ll be saying, “He’s only Kenyan!”
Say what? Keith Olbermann is less than truthful? That won’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s ever watched his show. But it apparently came as a revelation to Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales, who was recently named Olbermann’s “Third Worst Person In The World.”
Tom Shales just figured out that Keith Olbermann is dishonest?
Say what? Keith Olbermann is less than truthful? That won’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s ever watched his show. But it apparently came as a revelation to Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales, who was recently named Olbermann’s “Third Worst Person In The World.”
What had Shales done to deserve this honor? He simply said that when Stewart interviewed Bill Clinton, “She looked as though she would have been much more comfortable in Clinton’s lap.”
That sent Olbermann over the edge. The edge of truthfulness, that is.
The New York Post has the details of Olbermann’s lie of omission:
Olbermann neglected to tell his viewers that Stewart, who used to substitute-host for him on “Countdown,” is married to Bill Wolff, the cable channel’s vice president for prime-time programming.
“While he’s attacking people’s ethics, he himself is guilty of a huge oversight. He’s intentionally misleading viewers,” Shales told us. “Stewart is more than a colleague. She’s his boss’ wife. It’s a deliberate deception.”
We’re not sure who was more upset by Shales’ review – Stewart or the ass-kissing Olbermann.
The Washington Post wins this week’s Alarmism-In-Action award for blaming global warming for larger trees and smaller trees in the same article.
This is the future of our redwood forests unless we spend trillions of dollars now
It’s well documented that the global warming crowd blames global warming for absolutely everything, no matter how illogical those claims may be.
But the Washington Post wins this week’s Alarmism-In-Action award for blaming global warming for larger trees and smaller trees in the same article.
First the larger trees:
Parker’s data, which showed the trunks gradually fattening over time, indicated that many of the trees were growing two to four times faster than expected. That raised questions about climate change’s impact on the age-old rhythms of U.S. forests.
But enough about those darn larger trees. What about the smaller ones?
In the tropics, however, some studies have seemed to show trees growing more slowly: It might now be too hot for some trees there.
Excellent work, WaPo. Clear some space in the lobby, because we have a feeling that there’s another Pulitzer Prize coming your way very soon.
Details are sparse, but it’s been confirmed that fists flew in the Washington Post’s newsroom.
Fists are flying at the Washington Post, mostly lefts
Details are sparse, but it’s been confirmed that fists flew in the Washington Post’s newsroom. FishbowlDC reports the details of this ultimate hostile work environment:
Fishbowl spoke with the paper’s HR Monday morning “and confirmed that both reporters are still employed at the paper.”
Washington Post’s Director of Communications Kris Coratti: “I can’t discuss private personnel matters but that doesn’t mean we haven’t taken this incident seriously and addressed it appropriately.”
Apparently, Roig-Franzia elicited the reaction by saying, “Henry, don’t be such a c***sucker.” Executive editor Marcus Brauchli “was then forced to intervene.”
The lesson to be learned from this?
Never tell a reporter not to be a c***sucker. It’s their basic nature.
Woodward and Bernstein helped bring down a president in the 1970s. Now O’Keefe and Giles are helping to bring down both ACORN and the fourth estate with their series of Internet videos. And the press is taking it none too kindly.
Millions of years from now our descendents will fuel their world with oil produced from the bodies of today's dinosaur media
Woodward and Bernstein helped bring down a president in the 1970s. Now O’Keefe and Giles are helping to bring down both ACORN and the fourth estate with their series of Internet videos. And the press is taking it none too kindly.
In response, they’re smearing the messenger instead of doing their job by spreading the message that ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Racketeering Now) is rotten to the core and that President Obama has a long history with the taxpayer-funded group.
The Washington Post once accepted anonymous revelations from a secret source known only as “Deep Throat” that proved damaging to the president of the United States in 1972. Yet now the same paper now questions the motives of two amateur reporters whose secretly filmed revelations are proving embarrassing to the current president.
Did the Post or any other news organization question Woodward and Bernstein’s motives back then? Of course not.
In a devastating piece, Dan Calabrese asks,
Why, exactly, do O’Keefe and Giles now have to defend themselves and their independence, when the result of their work clearly speaks for itself?
Part of the issue is obviously ideological bias. The mainstream media is far less happy to see a left-wing organization exposed as a criminal fraud, especially one so closely connected to the left-wing president in which they have so much invested.
But there is more to it than that.
O’Keefe and Giles represent the kind of new reality that threatens the very existence of media dinosaurs like the Washington Post.
Is NBC still using this logo? They were the last time anyone actually watched the network. A couple weeks back, ABCNews.com started a daily web series featuring its correspondents and anchors. They called it “The Fix.”
Last week lawyers from The Washington Post said the newspaper owns the name “The Fix” and slapped a cease and desist order on the network. Turns out Post writer Chris Cillizza uses the title for his Twitter profile and it’s also the name of a blog he’s written for the Post several years.
ABC News gave up without a fight. They caved in like a house in a hurricane. They fought like the French.
According to WebNewser, ABCNews.com is trying now working on new names for its web series.
As MediaBistro asks, “So, what is driving The Washington Post to take this so seriously? And should ABC News give in? After all, ABC News and WaPo often partner on editorial projects most notably the ABC News/Washington Post poll.”
Fact is, the Post probably wouldn’t have bothered with a cease and desist had their title been stolen by NBC. Because no one ever would have seen it if it had been on NBC.
Many times over the years, newspapers have chosen not to run Doonesbury comic strips for one reason or another. Creator Garry Trudeau often focuses on topics that editors and readers find offensive.
Today, the Washington Post was so offended that it refused to run the strip. What was the topic they found so offensive? Was it sex? Drugs? Crude language? No, the topic was the recent layoffs at the Washington Post. Instead, they ran a “Doonesbury Flashback” strip–a rerun.
So much for the WaPo, that vaunted bastion of free speech and truth.
The real question, though, should be, why does any newspaper still run Doonesbury? It hasn’t been funny in at least 35 years. It’s the Janeane Garafalo of comic strips.
Here, thanks to MediaBistro, is today’s censored strip.
So much for the triumph of hope over fear. In an op-ed piece in today’s Washington Post, President Obama attempted to scare the livin’ bejeebers out of everyone.
He warned Congress to act quickly on his “stimulus” bill and warned that that failure to act could plunge us into a recession that might prove irreversible.
Irreversible. The world will plunge into a recession – maybe a depression – from which we will never recover. Never.
“Never,” according to a source within the Democratic National Committee, is defined as “A period of time so long that Obama won’t get re-elected.”
Temperatures may have been freezing in Washington, DC yesterday, but the reception Al Gore got from the Washington Post was even chiller.
They dubbed him The Goracle, poked fun at his pompous predictions, laughed at his tortured phraseology, and cackled about kowtowing interrogators. They said:
“Mostly, however, the lawmakers took turns asking the Goracle for advice, as if playing with a Magic 8 Ball.”
“Prospects for regulating a future carbon emissions market? ‘There’s a high degree of confidence.’ The future of automobiles in China and India? ‘I wouldn’t give up on electric vehicles.’ The potential of solar power in those countries? “’I have no question about it at all.’”
We got out our Magic 8-Ball and asked it a few questions. This thing’s good.
Is Al Gore a pompous ass? “Signs point to yes.” Is global warming some kind of scam? “It is decidedly so.” Is this article about finished? “Without a doubt.”
The Washington Post invited readers to send special messages to our new Fearless Leader on inauguration day. They reserved the right to reject negative ads, but didn’t appear to reject any ads for stupidity.
“I will be in the crowd in front of the Capitol today to witness this historic moment,” said one. “You should have my resume on file…I figured this was the best way to get in touch with you.”
“Congratulations,” said another. “Your leadership is required to change the Psyche of the Personal Economic Unit to solve the problem created by Wall Street.”
This administration doesn’t need a Surgeon General. It needs a Psychiatrist General.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MMXvU4O9OANoted physicist and amateur psychologist Albert Einstein said, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
The Washington Post reports that Time and Newsweek are getting “smaller, more serious, more opinionated and, though they are loath to admit it, more liberal. They are pursuing a more elite audience, in print and on the Web, abandoning the old Henry Luce notion of catering to the masses. It is nothing less than a survival strategy.”
Time says it was marginally profitable last year, but Newsweek lost money. Time has reduced its guaranteed circulation to advertisers from 4.1 million to 3.25 million. Newsweek lowered its from 3.1 million to 2.6 million and is considering lowering it again.
Although we cannot verify it, we’ve been told the attached video may have been shot during a recent editorial board meeting at Time. Or Newsweek. Take
your choice.
Temperatures may have been freezing in Washington, DC yesterday, but the reception Al Gore got from the Washington Post was even chiller.
The Washington Post invited readers to send special messages to our new Fearless Leader on inauguration day. They reserved the right to reject negative ads, but didn’t appear to reject any ads for stupidity.