I haven’t been here lately, but you are still as great to read as ever! I have to link to, and excerpt you on my LEAVWORLD blog more often. I’ve been spending too much time on the Gather website, and not reading (or posting in) the REAL blogoshere enough. I hope this signals a return.

Great post, La Shawn! You’re an inspiration!

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Even at my college rag, I was relegated to “Sports Editor” while the “Editor” couldn’t even spell. I won two national awards with a Sports staff of one but my point is, the Advisor, who is or used to be director of media relations for the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies, decided the stories AND the positions.

I give HIM (Kirk Clayborn) credit for one award because I actually broke a huge story as Sports Editor that he pointed me too. Plus, we were all black.

Imagine someone with a bad agenda that wants to just misinform … That is the fight I see.

you’re just not….how to say this?….you’re just not *our kind of people*, dearie.

surely you understand.

I don’t have anything against bipolar people – but they have no business being in the news business.

I had hoped that the Wa Po was entering a phase of sanity, because they were quite rational when it came to the Iraq war.

But their Leftist corruption became obvious this fall, when they declared war on Sen George Allen, and repeatedlly commented on the non story of “macaca”. Quite unprofessional.

Just to be up front: Jayson Blair is Old News.
He has been hired by a magazine that is dedicated to issues regarding bi polar illnesses. You don’t think that editor didn’t triple check everything he sent in? You betcha she did.

To gloss over Jayson and Jack Kelley is to ignore their own incestous amplification of the problem of integrity in the fourth estate. The journals are making a big mistake by talking down to their readership.

They got a rude awakening with Dan Rather and the power of the internet and bloggers who DO care.
In a nutshell, I think the piece was a slap in the face of their readers and you got it in one.
Way to go, lady.

*faints*

I am a mathematician. The likelihood of the Post giving you a slot is .000000000000000…1 (you get the idea).

You left out the most important disqualifying characteristic which you have. You are a Christian!

Now the Post is an official paper of the ACLU, and thus legally obliged to contain no Christianity.

Just thank God every day that the abridgement of speech has not yet extended to the banning of all blogs (see Iran for details)!

If you stop being niggardly, just maybe but being niggardly will keep you or anyone [regardless of color] from doing well in any endeavor.

One can be a scribbler nonpareil, but if one’s sheepskin comes from, say, NW Manitoba, Canada, it’s keep-your-day-job.

Keep plugging, La Shawn

My first year with the WaPo was 1965 and I stayed with them until 2001. I was so disgusted with how they managed the news of the Bush election that I dropped them like a case of herpes simplex #2. However, I did write one letter a day for two months to the managing editor with my observations about the slanted “news” of the day before I bugged out.

Last August, the WaPo sent me an offer to get 52 weeks of home delivery for less than $50 and I decided to take it. Heck, the puzzles alone are worth it! In fact, my wife was beating me about the head and shoulders with a wet noodle to get the travel section on Sunday.

Ergo: you are correct. In this household: most of the WaPo goes into the paper bin as soon as it arrives. Sundays are particularly painful. I leaf through the “outlook” section and the book supplement to see if I can abide to scan anything.

I wish the WaPo would move Doonesbury from the “style” section to the front page and save us all the trouble of looking for some form of temperate doxology.

I might note that the WaPo long ago abandoned the third world of downtown DC for the affluent suburbs of Virginia! But then again, their current digs are near the infamous “mixing bowl” on I-95 which undoubtedly permeates their view of the universe.

We do all wonder what the subscriber statistics would reflect if the NYT or WaPo were to ditch their slanted presentation and try a straight presentation of the facts. (But then, they would have to admit that their readers are mostly above the drooling stage.)