Nope ... no doctors here ...
Posted on 08/18/2004 3:53:11 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
They hand out a free mini-Washington Post at some metro stops every weekday, and have been doing it for months. That probably has a lot to do with the decline. It also has a lot to do with the increase in litter on our metro. Thanks, Washington Post (and slobs)!
Don't have the stats off hand.
I remember reading this rag when I was younger when I lived with my parents in PA. The newspaper sucked then (I only read it for the Comics anyway) and it really sucks now.
And it wasn't filled with college graduates before?
"Booming with college graduates"
Exploding college graduates?
Homicide college graduate bombers?
2nd problem is the anti-military stance. In case no one notice, the Pentagon is in DC along with numerous other military commands. The military, and its contractors, are the largest employer in DC (except maybe the World Bank / IMF - don't get me started). A pronounced tilt against the military is not going to win friends.
The 3rd problem is that the editorial pages and editorials that they call articles are such biased liberal hit-pieces that they are devoid of useful factual content.
The 4th problem is that the feral gubmint reporting is all about Georgetown parties held by rich socialites. I mean who cares. They may throw a mean party, but that is NOT where the work of the federal government gets done. For those familiar with the blogger Washingtonienne, the compost looks down their noses at her, but they are NO better. She dealt with the scandals on the staff level. The compost keeps it to the political socialite level and leaves out the titillating tid-bits, meaning there is even less factual content.
5th they - seriously - ran an add campaign plastered on all of the buses for the Post.com. It was too easy and the compost inversion stuck.
6th - the Washington Post is run by a bunch of irrelevant liberal hacks. They don't get it. Rabid dog liberalism is so so 20th century. You should hear my 14 year-old sons' friends discussion about liberals. You would think they thought they all came from another planet.
I'm pleased to see that someone over there is getting worried. I get the Times now, of course.
This is why I read the Washington times. The Post HOLE is an un-American newspaper. that is my feeling and I don't care what the rats think. God Bless America and all our people in uniform.
I lived in the DC metro area for more than ten years. I could read every story that interested me in the Washingon Times in about ten minutes. I could spend at least an hour with the Washington Post. I still read it online most every day. There is no more disputing that is a great paper than disputing that it is a liberal shill, but they do have about the most comprehensive paper outside of the NYSlimes, which I also read every day on the net. Both are liberal shills and the Slimes is far worse. The Post panders to the DC minority communities more than does the Slimes in NY. Remember the old saying, hold your friends close but hold your enemies closer.
Nope ... no doctors here ...
The day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks the question on every person's mind was: where and when will the terrorists attack next. As President and commander in chief, The United States has not suffered another terrorist attack.
That resoundingly confirms George Bush's qualification to be President.
What does John Kerry's military record show? Let those records show how qualified he is for the job.
My reason is simple... The internet and 24 hours news networks have made papers obsolete. I realized about 5 years ago that all the news I was reading in the papers I had already gotten "as it happened" on the internet and the cable news networks and it got so I barely even read the papers most of the time.
You are right about the 24 hour news cycle making daily papers obselete. The only paper worth getting is a local one that has news of local interest and sales fliers and coupons you can use locally. But I hardly even read that.
Does the Post include a barf bag when bought at the newstand?
I hope that memory isn't seared -- seared -- into you.
The Pentagon is near but not in D.C. proper. I guess the two were interchangeable at the time. There is a watery border, though. :=)
Proudly canceled my subscription about 6 months ago. When they called to ask me why, I told them that I expect to read editorials on the editorial page, but not in the feature articles, style articles, or the comics. I got a "un-huh" and the dude hung up.
I cancelled the local paper & USA today about a year ago. I had quite reading them quite a while before that, except for the sports pages. Finally I quit altogether since the internet is a much deeper source of sports news also. The other sections of the paper I care about are also exceeded by internet sources. It's just so much better on the internet. Easier, and I can go fetch old articles much faster if I need them. The only think I pay for out of pocket now is the WSJ online edition.
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