Willybuns blasts "jealous" Style writers

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/newspapers/covering_this_against_our_own_will_42865.asp

 

There are a lot of people in the Post's Style department with a hell of a lot of game (Hank Steuver, anyone?) who I think could hold their own, but I like the fact that Wilbon is sticking up for sports writers. I still don't understand, however, how anyone with half a brain could see Gene Weingarten's second piece as anything but satire.

 

Darn, Perry, you're not a reader? We had that up yesterday. Just figured we'd let the Simers stuff die down before we got a bum rap around here ...

http://thebiglead.com/?p=919

 

See Colbert, Stephen, re: White House correspondents dinner.

 

Wilbon calls someone an idiot later in the Q and A. I like that.

But if he thinks most news people have a deadline of a week from tomorrow, he's sadly mistaken.

 

He does that a lot in his weekly chats

 

I think I need to start a weekly chat.

 

Weingarten is pretty freaking funny.

 

Well, I think the PTI boys are in the wrong on this ... their colleagues are entitled to their (mild) opinions, and to publish those opinions without getting beaten up by coworkers for doing their jobs.

 

It's certainly true for "style" writers, though.

 

But, HH, the belief now is that this WASN'T the writer's opinion, that this was some sort of satire. I didn't read the original review, so I can't say, but if there's a question of whether it was satire or not, it must not have been a very good brand of satire.