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[Pat Coleman]

I don't, but we have a job board that I hope will be populated with those types of jobs.

[K-Mack]

^* Lousy paper, great sports columnists.

How can you say the Washington Post is a lousy paper? The only people I ever hear say that are right-wingers who hate almost every newspaper, and people whose high school doesn't get enough coverage and have an axe to grind.

Given who I work for, I probably shouldn't say this, but from a strictly journalistic perspective, the Post is about as thorough and as forward-thinking as they come. Their sports section is OK, but the columnists are good.

Random aside. Now back to arguing over the relationship between the poll and playoff spots.

[ktroutvon]

I was going to let that one go msyelf.   

Having spent three years in DC and also previously and now living in NYC, I can say, definitively (in my opinion), that the Post is far superior to the NY Times.  The only thing the times is more adept at is introducing their ego into their "journalism". 

[ktroutvon]

Andrew Ross Sorkin is pretty good though.

[redswarm81]

^* Lousy paper, great sports columnists.

How can you say the Washington Post is a lousy paper? The only people I ever hear say that are right-wingers who hate almost every newspaper, and people whose high school doesn't get enough coverage and have an axe to grind.

. . . from a strictly journalistic perspective, the Post is about as thorough and as forward-thinking as they come.  Their sports section is OK, but the columnists are good

1.  Gee Keith, what do the right-wingers who don't hate every newspaper say about the Washington Post?

2. From a journalistic perspective, I think that the Washington Post has lost its journalistic perspective.  Just as an example, when the City of Manassass VA announced plans to spend $170,000 building an assistance center for illegal immigrants, hundreds of local residents called the mayor's office to complain that they would rather their tax money be spent on citizens, or at least legal residents.  The volume of calls led the mayor's office to shut down the switchboard.  The headline in the Washington Post--front page, above the fold--read "Hate Calls Paralyze Manassas Mayor's Office."

3. Natalie Hopkinson

There are plenty more reasons (including Janet Cooke, if you really want to discuss thoroughness), but you're right, this is an aside, and it's more fun to remind the LL and E8 posters that I was explaining to them over a month ago that SoS/QOW would be as big a determining factor in playoff selection as any of their chest-thumping antics.

[redswarm81]

Having spent three years in DC and also previously and now living in NYC, I can say, definitively (in my opinion), that the Post is far superior to the NY Times.  

That is not saying a hell of a lot.

[repete]

So, Swarm, just wondering if there are any papers you would consider good?

Somehow, I'm expecting to hear WSJ . . .

[gordonmann]

I'm fairly "right wing" but respect the NY Times and WSJ.

Not sure what that says about me.

[redswarm81]

So, Swarm, just wondering if there are any papers you would consider good?

Somehow, I'm expecting to hear WSJ . . .

The Danbury (CT) News-Times. 

Has the Wall Street Journal ever had to return a Pulitzer Prize?  I might read the WSJ, if I could afford it.

Enough of this nonsense--on to the important stuff, like who's going to get the Pool C bids?

[repete]

OK . . . if Concordia-Moorhead misses a bid with just a last-minute loss to No. 3 SJU, then something's very wrong.

As for affording the WSJ, burning USAir FF miles works great.

[ktroutvon]

The SF Chronicle is pretty good.

QoWI counts when you have a QoW.

[redswarm81]

The SF Chronicle is pretty good.

Way back when Ray Ratto was writing for the SF Chronicle, I regarded their sports columnists--especially Glenn Dickey--as highly as I regard the Washington Post's sports columnists.

QoWI counts when you have a QoW.

There's a hidden meaning in there somewhere, isn't there, Trout?  Who exactly is "you" in your proclamation?

[ktroutvon]

Whatever do you mean?  I was using "you" in the royal sense.  Is there some reason why that would be a sensitive area?

[redswarm81]

QoWI counts when you have a QoW.

There's a hidden meaning in there somewhere, isn't there, Trout?  Who exactly is "you" in your proclamation?

Whatever do you mean?  I was using "you" in the royal sense.  Is there some reason why that would be a sensitive area?

Sensitive?  Who said anything about sensitive?  I'm just trying to figure out what you mean.

QoW doesn't apply to a "royal you," it applies to a specific team.   It makes no sense to apply the concept of QoW generically.  Were you simply stating a tautology?

[Pat Coleman]

Just a heads-up -- Keith's column is posted, although it will be a while before I get a chance to remake the front page.

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