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Washington Post music critic apologizes for ’rude’ e-mail to former mayor’s aide <cm-bd>¶
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic for The Washington Post has apologized for sending an angry e-mail in which he called District of Columbia Council member Marion Barry a “crack addict.†<cm-bd>¶
Tim Page wrote to Barry’s aide last week after receiving a press release about the former mayor’s views on the financially troubled Greater Southeast Community Hospital. <cm-bd>¶
“Must we hear about it every time this crack addict attempts to rehabilitate himself with some new — and typically half-witted — political grandstanding?†the e-mail said. “I’d be grateful if you would take me off your mailing list. I cannot think of anything the useless Marion Barry could do that would interest me in the slightest, up to and including overdose.†<cm-bd>¶
Barry was videotaped in 1990, during his third term as mayor, smoking crack cocaine in a hotel room during an FBI sting. He served a six-month prison sentence. <cm-bd>¶
In a story published Tuesday in The Washington Post, Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. called Page’s e-mail “a terrible mistake†and said he had taken “appropriate internal action.†Neither Downie nor Page would disclose what the action was. Page plans to take a previously scheduled four-month leave starting Jan. 1. <cm-bd>¶
Downie also said Barry called him, and that Barry accepted his apology. <cm-bd>¶
In an e-mail to Barry’s aide, Andre Johnson, Page said he was sorry for his “rude†response. “I am deeply ashamed for what I did and I know how hateful my words could be.†<cm-bd>¶
Page said he had been cursed by a Barry staffer during an earlier phone request to be taken off the council member’s e-mail list. Johnson said he had no previous contact with Page and has no record of such a request. <cm-bd>¶
Barry said he was “outraged†at the e-mail, “particularly coming from a reporter at a reputable newspaper like The Washington Post, not a rag.†He said Page “ought to be fired, and The Washington Post ought to run an editorial apology.†<cm-bd>¶
Page won the Pulitzer for his music criticism in 1997, two years after joining the paper. <cm-bd>¶
Washington Post music critic apologizes for ’rude’ e-mail to former mayor’s aide <cm-bd>¶
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic for The Washington Post has apologized for sending an angry e-mail in which he called District of Columbia Council member Marion Barry a “crack addict.†<cm-bd>¶
Tim Page wrote to Barry’s aide last week after receiving a press release about the former mayor’s views on the financially troubled Greater Southeast Community Hospital. <cm-bd>¶
“Must we hear about it every time this crack addict attempts to rehabilitate himself with some new — and typically half-witted — political grandstanding?†the e-mail said. “I’d be grateful if you would take me off your mailing list. I cannot think of anything the useless Marion Barry could do that would interest me in the slightest, up to and including overdose.†<cm-bd>¶
Barry was videotaped in 1990, during his third term as mayor, smoking crack cocaine in a hotel room during an FBI sting. He served a six-month prison sentence. <cm-bd>¶
In a story published Tuesday in The Washington Post, Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. called Page’s e-mail “a terrible mistake†and said he had taken “appropriate internal action.†Neither Downie nor Page would disclose what the action was. Page plans to take a previously scheduled four-month leave starting Jan. 1. <cm-bd>¶
Downie also said Barry called him, and that Barry accepted his apology. <cm-bd>¶
In an e-mail to Barry’s aide, Andre Johnson, Page said he was sorry for his “rude†response. “I am deeply ashamed for what I did and I know how hateful my words could be.†<cm-bd>¶
Page said he had been cursed by a Barry staffer during an earlier phone request to be taken off the council member’s e-mail list. Johnson said he had no previous contact with Page and has no record of such a request. <cm-bd>¶
Barry said he was “outraged†at the e-mail, “particularly coming from a reporter at a reputable newspaper like The Washington Post, not a rag.†He said Page “ought to be fired, and The Washington Post ought to run an editorial apology.†<cm-bd>¶
Page won the Pulitzer for his music criticism in 1997, two years after joining the paper. <cm-bd>¶
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