I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Umm...Michael who?
Off-topic: It looks like the guest bloggers are posting, but there's no names under the headlines. I'd like to know who's posting what, since each of you have a slighty different perspective.
Thanks.
Sorry, I just like to keep things Fair & Balanced.
Aaron, here's a link:
http://atrios.blogspot.com/
2003_...096207931781125
Papjijo, the names are at the bottom, beside the post time.
At least, Getler had the sense to sort of rebuke Sue Schmidt and Vernon Loeb for their role in building the Private Lynch mythology. Vernon Loeb is still pissed off for being called out for his and Schmidt's dreadful reporting:
"Getler lives in this ombudsman, Pollyanna-ish world," he says.
http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=3091
My view is that the Post's editorial page continues to get more and more dreadful, but that their news coverage for the last four months has taken a turn for the better (which may not be saying much).
It is the reverse at the New York Times and that was as true under the brief Raines regime. I suspect at the Times there continues to be too much of a star system and an emphasis at the Times on cute writing styles, and a deemphasis on substantive knowldedge and background in covering stories (see Kit Seelye piece today on California energy crisis for an example of this).
Getler's a tool, the Whore Post is a toilet, and he's the inept attendant. With a cast of characters that includes Steno Sue, Hokurtz and Fairnbalanced Connelly all you can say is flush twice, it's a long way to Sally Quinn's salon.
ESTRAGON: He should be here.
VLADIMIR: He didn't say for sure he'd come.
ESTRAGON: And if he doesn't come?
VLADIMIR: We'll come back tomorrow.
ESTRAGON: And then the day after tomorrow.
VLADIMIR: Possibly.
ESTRAGON: And so on.
(From "Waiting for Getler")
Getler's away? Damn! Well, you saved me from wasting some perfectly good electrons.
Today's WaPo has a couple of relatively polite letters protesting the snarky European-heat-wave editorial. But undoubtedly the ombudsman's mailbox went up in flames two days ago. I was looking forward to reading his response.
"Umm...Michael who?"
There's this new fangled "Google" thing on the "Internet". You look at it with your "computer". Very cool. Type 'Michael Getler' using your "keyboard" and you can find some "web pages" about this guy.
I have no idea if Getler's a good guy or not, but I do know this: he is not effective at ombudsmaning. The Washington Post editorial page has become unhinged. And unlike the WSJ -- which seems to have a pretty strict wall between news and opinion -- the WaPo's editorial slants bleed into its news coverage. WaPo needs to get its house and order.
(Are you listening Howie? No more throwing stones at the NYT's glass house until you clean up your own mess.)
Woodstein - Getler's an ombudsman the way Howie's a media critic.
Frabjous - it's gonna be a long wait...
I wrote a letter last week to him to discuss the use of the "Democrat Party" no response to him or to the author of the article (cc'd).
Maybe I'll get one when he gets back from vacation....
Getler's Fork
How Getler decides whether your letters raise an issue important enough to take note of: If there are only a few letters, the issue is not important and should be ignored. If there are a lot of letters, it's an organized campaign and the issue should be ignored.
If there are more than a few letters, but not enough to have been an organized campaign ...
It's vacation time. Buh-bye.
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