Is The Washington Post Going Tabloid (Style-Wise, Not Size-Wise)

"Libertarian Democrat" Terry Michael asks whether the Wash Post is going downmarket:

"Man Accused of spraying semen led a normal life. Suspect never had any issues. Showed no indication of bizarre behavior."

You just read the headline and sub-heds for a story in the Metro section of last Sunday's (August 15, 2010) issue of the ink-on-dead-trees edition of The Washington Post. It led the front page of a section charged with reporting important District of Columbia news. It did so only four weeks until a local election, featuring a Post-endorsed young mayor who seems to think DC's treasury is his personal piggybank for friends--though you wouldn't necessarily know much about that from the meager space devoted to Mayor Adrian Fenty's alleged transgressions. But I digress.

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Comments

[Ragin Cajun]

Sounds like Miggs finally got out.

[?]

The Post is shit for 'tards, but defining reportage's seriousness by its devotion to and/or reliance on politics is What's Wrong With Journalism.

[Mike M.]

Is water wet? They still employ sad-sack journolists like Ezra Klein and Dave Weigel, don't they?

The once-great Post has been going downhill fast for a while now. About the only good thing you can say about it nowadays is that it's still good for picking up dog shit.

[.]

Ha ha ha! Dog shit. Also: bird cages! And fish!

[Hank]

Those are some crazy headlines indeed. My favorite is:

"Libertarian Democrat." But I didn't see a sub-hed. How about: "Freedom fighting statist leads normal life in 15 million dollar penthouse in Manhattan."

[T]

Yet, strangely, this is the only Post article my DC area friends saw fit to forward to me.

[Ken Shultz]

"Is The Washington Post Going Tabloid (Style-Wise, Not Size-Wise)"

I thought everybody at Hit & Run had already known that for months...

Why else would they hire David Weigel?

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Going Tabloid (Style-Wise, Not Size-Wise)

I was at my barber's last weekend and he was reading a copy of the local paper. I hadn't seen it in a couple of years. I swear, this once high-and-mighty publication had shrunk to the size of a legal pad. It was sad, but I did laugh out loud. I worked for that paper in the late 90s, and my boss told me then: "When you and I are dead and buried, the [insert moribund publication here] will still be going strong." Like the fabled dinosaur, my boss never saw the death comet coming.

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[Tony Clifton]

Man Accused of spraying semen led a normal life.

I think I just found my epitaph.

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