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How much will Marcus Brauchli get to leave the Washington Post in a year or two? Nobody knows, yet! But Brauchli is the new WaPo editor and is expected to make dramatic changes, such as “Maybe the paper should not lose so much money” and “Free stickers in every copy!” Welcome to town, Marcus! Nobody else much likes Washington, either, so don’t feel weird about how D.C. is like some fourth-world slum city run by rats, Russian bodyguards and the Park Service Police. [NYT/Fishbowl DC]
BEN BRADLEE IS ROLLING IN HIS GRAVE
New Washington Post Editor Got Millions To Leave Wall Street Journal
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“Free stickers in every copy!”
Offset blue and red type and filter paper glasses. 3D comin’ at ya!
Brauchli? George Bush hates brauchli.
Is it too much to hope for buxom WaPo Girls?
Katharine Weymouth? From the Talking Heads? Wasn’t her boyfriend fucking everything on the planet for a while because she didn’t notice and everybody said not to tell her — oh — I mean — yeah, she’s pretty cool. Burning Down Da House — Green Zone, comin’ atcha. This is not a drill!
lumpenprole: I’ll take one Dana Priest for every five buxom WaPo girls you can scare up. Really — knowledge is so much hotter than tits — especially in a pair of purple jeans.
SayItWithWookies: I always thought knowledge ran around naked
Pay the pageview! IT’S THE FUTURE!!!1!!
That’s what she’d like you to think. But knowledge is a coy ho just like all the others.
And Coy Ho is not a village in the Mekong Delta, in case you were thinking that.
SayItWithWookies: Uh, NotUrEvryDayWEzl: is what I meant.
SayItWithWookies: Ah, see, my ignorance of knowledge’s true form is just further proof of my ignorance. Thanks No Homo Behinds Left!
Dear Mr. Big time new Editor, Please put lollipops in the kid’s post!
Run more UFO stories!
Frankly I think the WaPo is already a seriously rightwing hack job paper. Bringing in a WSJ guy is not going to make it any better.
Just put tits on Page 7. That’s all I ask.
would it be too much to ask for same-week english premier league soccer scores?
Botswana Meat Commission FC: Tits or Tits LaRue. Your choice, Editorman.
BEN BRADLEY IS ROLLING IN HIS GRAVE
He does kinda look dead, doesn’t he?
I don’t know if anyone has asked this yet, but I’ll plunge on: Is this gentleman’s name pronounced the same as the word ‘broccoli’? His youth must have been hell….
I read Brauchli left the WSJ because Murdoch wants to turn it into a “scoop” paper, just like the NYP. Brauchli was viewed as a savior for the paper by those who didn’t jump ship when Murdoch bought Dow Jones but the thing didn’t take: Brauchli was out before Murdoch had finished his introductory address to the WSJ employees. Reading the WaPo is going to be interesting.
” …D.C. is like some fourth-world slum city run by rats, Russian bodyguards and the Park Service Police.” geeze, that’s not how Yglesias, Sullivan or Klein describe it. Sounds exciting! And this new WaPo editor is from NYC, so he will find it? … was it Kennedy who said that Washington had northern charm and southern efficiency?
loquaciousmusic:
Both!
Believe it or not, Katherine Weymouth is related, somehow, to Tina Weymouth from Talking Heads. That may explain why Tina Weymouth is now the Post’s new music editor, and David Byrne is the new “lifestyles” editor.
I hope the new Editor will fire Charles Krappwaffler of whatever that jerk’s name is.
What they really need is a comic section. You know, Family Circus, Garfield, Nancy, Ziggy…
To sell more newspapaers you need pictures of pretty girls with big tits in bathing suits.
Wait a minute, has this guy passed the literacy test?
Larry Fine: Indeed, much the way Huffington Post featured that scintillating piece of progressive journalism “Top 10 American Flag Bikini Photos” — on the same page as Arianna’s handwringing over how Obama is pandering to the middle-brow.
What the Post needs is a good motto. How about:
“We Try Not to Offend Anybody”
Texan Bulldoggette: Which would make the New York Times just to the right of National Review.
thefrontpage: Tina is Katharine’s aunt, even though they’re not that radically different in age - Katharine’s father is Tina’s older brother.
Though considering Tina apparently can’t stand David Byrne any more, I doubt you’ll see him showing up much in the paper.
A “scoop” newspaper? LOL. The Journal used to have some of the best reporting, period. Scripture for reporters covering the Hill. NOW….you’ve got your daily “Stop the Black Boy” news feature, plus Karl “Turd Blossom” Rove on the Op-Ed page. Who else would run Laura Bush’s “What I Saw In Afghanistan” crap….? Thanks Rupert. They only thing missing from your usual refuse is a Page 3 girl