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Media Monday: Tired and depressed Super Bowl edition
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Neither the Redskins nor the Ravens made it to Super Bowl XLVI, but that didn't stop regional papers from splashing the results across their front pages.
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Media Monday: And then there were two. And a half
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With the departure of our arts editor and another reporter, who's left at TBD? Behold, our brief resurgence of transparency.
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Transit Tuesdays: D.C. goes into snow patrol frenzy
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Yes, D.C. experienced a few snowflakes yesterday, so cue the transportation panic. Even Luke Russert weighed in on the weather hysteria.
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Media Monday: WaPo's 'The List' is still in, apparently
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Style reporters Dan Zak and Monica Hesse spent Friday afternoon explaining, defending, and otherwise elucidating the year-end in/out list to a packed room at the Newseum.
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Media Monday: Does the Washington Post treat male and female bank robbers differently?
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One reader accuses the paper of an overly sympathetic portrayal of a woman bank robber, saying it needs to overcome "its sexist refusal to treat women as grown-ups with accountability for their behavior, just like men."
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Media Monday: Which paper had the blackest Friday?
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A slow Thanksgiving week means a slow Media Monday. So I've decided to search the websites of D.C. media outlets for the phrase "Black Friday" in articles published in November. The winner won't surprise you.
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Media Mondays: Aaron Morrissey is burned out, and in demand
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A week ago today, DCist editor-in-chief Aaron Morrissey announced he's stepping down at the end of this month. He spoke with TBD about his reasons for leaving, and responded to news that he's been offered a job by one of DCist's mainstream-media competitors.
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Fancy that: A satirical news site takes on Washington
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Two college students obsessed with politics decided it was more fun to mock politicians than to work for them. But does their website, the Washington Fancy, have a chance of ever competing with the Onion?
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Media Mondays: The Post's Sally Quinn is tweeting again, for real this time
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Sally Quinn, the Post's lightning-rod columnist, is known for many things, but tweeting is not one of them. That's about to change.
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Media Mondays: A defense of Gene Weingarten and all cantankerous old fuds
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In a column last week, Gene Weingarten hilariously skewered the Online News Association's recent convention with joke about pictures of bacon taped to cats. The digerati responded exactly as he'd hoped: by taking him too seriously.
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The Patch Awesomeness Index: TBD rates all 51 Washington, D.C.–area sites
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We evaluated all 51 Patch sites in our coverage area, rating each on a scale of 1-10 in five areas — quality of writing, breaking news, usefulness to residents, frequency of posts, and the editors' Klout scores — then combined them using a complex, proprietary equation that resulted in a Patch Awesomeness Score. Behold our fuzzy math!
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Media Mondays: The Daily Caller refuses to get it right
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The Daily Caller's Matthew Boyle still doesn't realize that October 2011 and Occupy DC are separate groups. Or he just refuses to admit when he's wrong.
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Media roundup: WaPo columnist waits an eternity for the electrician
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I'm usually quick to defend a writer's prerogative to write whatever he or she pleases. But then I read something like John Kelly's Sunday column in the Post, and I wonder if we should take our readers' criticisms to heart. Also: Politico plagiarism, trusting unprofitable journalists, and the most egregious sentence of the week.
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Hot girls and fetus posters: The week in college sex
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The 18-to-21 set expounds on fetus posters, hot ladies, and in-class bikinis.
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The D.C. thundersnow Commute from Hell: What could we have done better?
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Bob Ryan discusses the past two weeks' breakdown in the forecasting process and the true lesson of Commutaggedon.
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New Otaku stereotypes #3
We all know about the dreaded con-funk. When we’re all together, we don’t smell like a bed of roses.
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Longtime Caps voice Ron Weber honored by Hockey Hall of Fame (Video)
CommentThe Capitals long-time radio voice receives the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award.
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Breitbart blogger's dopey defense of Juan Williams
Breitbart's blogger is furious that Williams' NPR contract was terminated after he said hateful things about Muslims.
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