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July 5, 2007

The Drudgification of the Washington Post

by AltHippo @ 12:07 am. Filed under Uncategorized

I’m not so sure about the Washington Post. This has been the paper that generations of my family has read first thing in the morning, as long as we’ve lived here. My grandfather even had the Post delivered to the small town in France where he lived out the rest of his days. When he couldn’t come back to Washington this was his way of staying connected.

Now I see a piece by Jon Solomon dredging up a piece of gossip of the most trivial variety. As things heat up in the Democratic primaries he takes an exhaustive look at John Edwards hairstylist, what he charges, and when he charges how much.

For theoretical balance, he adds this on the Republican side:

While Democrats seem to get the most attention, Republicans have not been completely immune. Campaign aides to former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, the best-coiffed Republican candidate in the presidential race and the wealthiest of all the hopefuls, fretted in an internal document that his well-tended locks may be considered a negative. He has assured Massachusetts reporters that he spends no more than $50 for a trim.

This is a political hit piece, laced with gossip, and not something I should be reading, well, anywhere, much less my home town paper.

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3 Responses to “The Drudgification of the Washington Post”

  1. archcrone Says:
    July 5th, 2007 at 2:33 pm

    Sorry you went through this piece of dreck. I couldn’t bring myself to read it when I saw the headline.

  2. KCinDC Says:
    July 6th, 2007 at 12:32 pm

    In the old days, people who used the phrase “Pravda on the Potomac” to refer to the Post meant that it had Communist leanings. Nowadays the phrase is still used, by different people, to mean that the paper is an administration mouthpiece.

  3. AltHippo Says:
    July 6th, 2007 at 2:11 pm

    Josh Marshall originally said this about Candy Crowley, but it applies to Jon Solomon and others at Neo-Pravda on the Potomac:

    “I’ve been sworn to secrecy on this. But between us, among insiders it’s well known that Crowley’s on-air commentary is controlled by a subcutaneous implant which receives radio waves from a type script to brain wave conversion device located in Karl Rove’s top left hand desk drawer.”

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