MetaFilter posts tagged with washingtonpost

Two-fisted journalism

Methylviolet — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:11:32 -0800

A fist fight in the Washington Post newsroom inspires this reaction from MeFi f a v o r ite Gene Weingarten: Hooray.

WaPo's Social Media Guidelines

Ike_Arumba — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:42:52 -0800

The Washington Post has issued new Social Media Guidelines for all employees. From the memo: "All Washington Post journalists relinquish some of the personal privileges of private citizens." Further: "Post journalists must refrain from writing, tweeting or posting anything—including photographs or video—that could be perceived as reflecting political, racial, sexist, religious or other bias or favoritism that could be used to tarnish our journalistic credibility." Staff writer Gene Weingarten had an inspired Tweet to mark the occasion.

Can the New York Times and Washington Post survive on a pay-wall business model if they do it together?

dyslexictraveler — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:35:24 -0800

In a new essay entitled Build the Wall, David Simon (who was a Baltimore Sun reporter before he produced The Wire) argues that if the larger newspaper industry is to survive, The New York Times and Washington Post must start charging readers for access to their websites (preferably done as a single action in concert with each other) — John Gruber, Dave Winer, and the folks at Gawker disagree, and Steven Berlin Johnson argues that while the future for newspapers might be quite bleak, the future for journalism and high quality analysis is actually quite bright. Meanwhile, the Times is currently doing market research to see if it's readers would be willing to pay $5 a month for online access, and the Associated Press announced it's intent to build a new news DRM system that will enable users to “consume, mash up and share AP content based on rights”.

The Washington Post welcomes its newest columnist...

zardoz — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:10:54 -0800

"The Cap and Tax Dead End", a Washington Post opinion piece written by soon-to-be-former Alaskan governor and frequent media critic Sarah Palin.

"One must be very naïve or dishonest to imagine that men choose their pants independently of their situation."

Liver — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:44:22 -0800

Demon Denim. Feeding off a earlier column in the WSJ by Daniel Akst, who wrote, "no fabric has ever been so insidiously effective at undermining national discipline," conservative columnist George Will takes up the (denim-free) banner in the crusade to rid America of "the plague of that ubiquitous fabric, which is symptomatic of deep disorders in the national psyche."

Power to the Peeple (Reloaded).

arachnid — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:01:38 -0800

"What is on the minds of the unsettled citizens of an upset nation in the middle of the cruelest month of the year? We need only look to the Peeps to see." The Washington Post's third (no, rly) annual Peeps Show. (Previously.) (Many thanks to palliser, orme, and eye of newt for their very kind assistance.) Happy Easter, if you celebrate That Sort of Thing.

Fatal Distraction

Ike_Arumba — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 13:57:38 -0800

Fatal Distraction. The lead story in this Sunday's Washington Post Magazine. "Forgetting a child in the back seat of a hot, parked car is a horrifying, inexcusable mistake. But is it a crime?". By Gene Weingarten. This is one of the finest pieces of human-interest journalism I've ever read. Fascinating, heartbreakingly sad, and disturbing in parts.

Only Six days Left To Begin Impeachment

Xurando — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:48:23 -0800

"Yes, We Tortured," says Susan Crawford, Convening Authority of The Guantanamo Military Commission. "I sympathize with the intelligence gatherers in those days after 9/11, not knowing what was coming next and trying to gain information to keep us safe," said Crawford, a lifelong Republican. "But there still has to be a line that we should not cross. And unfortunately what this has done, I think, has tainted everything going forward."

The body of the city

Horace Rumpole — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:29:48 -0800

Visualizing Early Washington. A project at the Imaging Research Center of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County has reconstructed the original landscape of Washington DC before its radical transformation into a modern capital city. Be sure to view the animation either embedded in the WaPo story or (sans advertising) at the "reconstructed the original landscape" link. (via)

Associated Press? More like Litigious Press, amirte?

zardoz — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:33:56 -0800

The Washington Post give the Associated Press the banhammer. It seems the A.P. doesn't like some blogs for using its headlines and excerpts. It's fair use, but A.P. disagrees. NYTimes take. The meat of the article, at the end: "So here's our new policy on A.P. stories: they don't exist. We don't see them, we don't quote them, we don't link to them. "

D. C. Shrines, Washington's Other Monuments

Kattullus — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:39:47 -0800

Washington's Other Monuments is a photoblog by photographer Lloyd Wolf chronicling "the many sad memorials erected by friends & family to honor murder and other violence victims in the Washington DC area. These spontaneous, homemade, heartfelt creations are found on streets throughout the region. They are often the only physical tribute to the many slaying victims." Washington Post article. [via Eddie Campbell]

Scaring the Vote out of America

Lutoslawski — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:01:05 -0800

3 A.M. calls to the President aren't so dire afterall. A brief history of recent middle-of-the-night phone calls to the President.

Great Depression, Nostalgia, Futurism

cgc373 — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:00:13 -0800

Hank Stuever's 3000-word Washington Post article thinks about the Depression and what it means to the U.S. now. via Snarkmarket

If there are homosexuals in Iran, well, whoop-de-damn-do!

silby — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:38:29 -0800

The Washington Post presents the top 5 quotes of 2007. MetaFilter responds: Miss Teen South Carolina, Ahmadinejad, Don Imus, and Larry Craig. Coming tomorrow: The List for 2008

Can't we just go Dutch?

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:25:38 -0800

If European and North American societies are morally responsible (print-friendly) for safeguarding free speech, should we also take financial responsibility for its proponents' safety (pf)? Hitchens seems to think so.

Today's moral dilemma is brought to you, of course, by the West's favourite Voltairian nightmare: prominent Islam critic, former Dutch MP, and scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

It's quieter than you think on the Wellesley College Senate bus.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:07:20 -0800

On average, college students are having a medium amount of sex.

Mind Games.

Sticherbeast — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:23:48 -0800

Mind Games. "She speaks about her situation calmly, occasionally laughing at her own predicament and her struggle with what she originally thought was mental illness....Like Girard, Naylor describes what she calls "street theater" -- incidents that might be dismissed by others as coincidental, but which Naylor believes were set up. She noticed suspicious cars driving by her isolated vacation home. On an airplane, fellow passengers mimicked her every movement -- like mimes on a street." Link goes to a Washington Post story - reg. may be required.

"Window in the Sky", a U2 montage of 137 video clips

stbalbach — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:20:28 -0800

"Window in the Sky" is a YouTube style video synch mash-up done on a professional budget with the magic of copyright clearances. "It's a triumph of postmodern reconstruction" says the Washington Post.

Naughty politicians

eunoia — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 19:26:23 -0800

Should a politician's "artistic endeavors" come into play when voters go to the polls? George Allen thinks that parts of his opponent, Jim Webb's, novels are demeaning to women and contain depictions of incest. Also, Republican candidate for Texas Comptroller, Susan Combs, is being accused of writing porngraphy because of excerpts like these from a romance novel she wrote 15 years ago. And they're not the only politicians who've written naughty things.

Quel horreur...

pwedza — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:12:41 -0800

The French do some things well and, well, some things not so well. (see)

Who gets married these days?

Marky — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 23:47:01 -0800

"Marriage is for white people."

The DeLay-Abramoff Money Trail

Postroad — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 12:46:12 -0800

The DeLay-Abramoff Money Trail The U.S. Family Network, a public advocacy group that operated in the 1990s with close ties to Rep. Tom DeLay and claimed to be a nationwide grass-roots organization, was funded almost entirely by corporations linked to embattled lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to tax records and former associates of the group.

Brewing "Briefing" blogging brouhaha

ibmcginty — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 07:36:39 -0800

Newsfilter: Washington Post columnist/blogger Dan Froomkin writes the "White House Briefing," an online "daily anthology of works by other journalists and bloggers," which is often critical of the administration. This past Sunday, the new Post ombudsman wrote that the paper's White House correspondents worried that Froomkin's column creates an appearance of bias at the Post. Froomkin responsed, and hundreds of commentors offered their support. Then Post national politics editor John Harris weighed in, to somewhat less acclaim from commentors. Harris expanded on his views in this interview. The whole affair raises issues about allegations of a subservient, stenographic press, how the media deals with charges of liberal bias, the perceived vindictiveness of the Bush administration, and the relationship between in-house bloggers and the traditional media.

Autism Visible

digaman — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 08:59:51 -0800

Inside the Spectrum: a hauntingly beautiful and thought provoking little collection of photographs of autistic people by Chris Combs, a fiercely talented photographer in his early 20s who works at the Washington Post. Read Combs' project description here. For more on autism, see here.

A Peek Under the PR Mask

Postroad — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:38:53 -0800

A Peek Under the PR Mask Once in a blue moon, we actually get a peek under the White House's public-relations mask, and this morning it comes courtesy of Peter Baker and Dan Balz , whose front-pager in The Washington Post suggests that Bush's unflagging public confidence about his Iraq policy reflects the work of public opinion researchers.