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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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The Washington Post loves to 'boast'
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The newspaper is in love with the second definition of this increasingly irritating verb.
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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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Media Monday: Metromix D.C. is dead, long live Metromix D.C.
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The Gannett-owned entertainment and listings site is a shell of its former self (which was a shell itself). As for whether anyone was laid off, the media giant isn't talking.
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Media Monday: He's back! City Paper contributor loathes pretty much everyone
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Franklin Schneider's latest diatribe against work, marriage, and children is Internet gold. It's also a portrait of a bitter man-child who justifies his way of life by disparaging others'.
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Should America support electric cars? The Washington Post says no
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A New Year's Day editorial scoffs at the notion that the electric car and its subsidies will solve our transportation woes. But isn't that rather short-sighted?
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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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The payroll tax back and forth: what those numbers mean for you
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Media Monday: Why does Gawker's Hamilton Nolan hate D.C. so much?
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The NYC-based writer despises D.C. with every snarky bone in his body. At least, that's the impression one gets from his writing.
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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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The U.S. Postal Service's money problems and what those unemployment stats really mean
CommentThe Postal Service has come up with a way to save $3 billion, but not everyone is happy with the proposal. Plus, unemployment has fallen to 8.6%, but does that really mean anything for the economy?
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Media Monday: The Washington Post's Social Reader is driving Facebook users crazy
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The Post's reputation as a national news outlet is at stake, and they're going to stake that reputation on the Social Reader, the tagline for which — "A New Way to Spread News" — is more accurate than perhaps even the paper realizes.
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Here's the difference between the Washington Post's U.S. and regional homepages
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After years of frustrating its online readers, The Washington Post today unveiled a groundbreaking redesign of its website's homepage that sets the new standard for all newspaper sites, the New York Times included. Actually, no, they just added a tiny button that doesn't do much at all.
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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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Celebritologyology: How Jen Chaney's blog rules the Washington Post
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How Jen Chaney's blog became one of the Washington Post's premier online properties.
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Media Mondays: Associated Press' Christopher Walken story proves why their Twitter policy is foolish
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If only the Associated Press had turned to Twitter before publishing an erroneous story about Christopher Walken discussing Natalie Wood's death on D.C.'s ESPN 980.
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Male D.C. journos get in Twitter fight over Post trend story about Ann Taylor
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A Post trend story about the clothing store's popularity with D.C. women sparked one hell of a tweetspat today among several local journalists, all men.
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The situation with swag and the White House and a look at the Dover Mortuary scandal
CommentPresident Obama has signed an executive order to cut the swag budget for federal agencies. Plus, a look at what happened to the whistleblowers who reported the Dover Mortuary scandal.
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