Comments on: Happy Weymouth, Happy WaPo

By: pmorlan

pmorlan — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:23:13 +0000

WaPo’s policy about only wanting to print Happy stories is very depressing.

By: Rayne

Rayne — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:52:37 +0000

BTW, when did Sydney Trent step down from WaPo?

Before or after the pay-for-play scandal broke, I wonder?

By: Rayne

Rayne — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:35:50 +0000

I think Buffett realizes he’s really invested in Kaplan; would like to know when Buffett’s going to force Kaplan and WaPo divisions to get a “divorce,” so that WaPo could go through a bankruptcy and the market could do as it does so well. (Insert .wav file from the movie Jaws here…)

By: scribe

scribe — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:08:10 +0000

I did once this summer. But, then again, I was at a remote fishing camp (one of the other guys there was from DC and had picked up a copy on the way) and by that time was ready to read the ingredients on the can of bug spray.

By: laborite57

laborite57 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:03:12 +0000

ummm….does anybody actually read the WaPo Magazine?

By: OccasionalObserver

OccasionalObserver — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:32:04 +0000

What work? It’s morning in the Village. It is always morning in the Village.

Be seeing you.

By: AngelsAwake

AngelsAwake — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:17:43 +0000

Only happy news?

Got their work cut out for them, don’t they?

By: scribe

scribe — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:02:01 +0000

Per this post at Volokh, linking to another reputable post, the WaPo lost over a dollar a copy last year.

A dollar plus per copy sold.

Yeeeow.

By: freepatriot

freepatriot — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:44:47 +0000

let the ignorant and the repuglitarded read their “happy stories”

while the rest of the country works to solve the mess that the ignorant and the repuglitarded left behind them

reality will bite them in the ass in November of 2010

I got faith in Karma

btw, I hate happy stories, so I ain’t the wapo’s target audience any way …

By: tinman1967

tinman1967 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:44:46 +0000

Yes, people like scandals but scandals aren’t really what you’d call depressing. Depressing news belongs in the National Enquirer or on FDL.