Comments on: Deborah Howell’s Foolish Consistency http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/deborah-howells-foolish-consistency/ Firedoglake weblog Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:55:23 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: earlofhuntingdon http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/deborah-howells-foolish-consistency/#comment-1769996 earlofhuntingdon Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:22:25 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/deborah-howells-foolish-consistency/#comment-1769996 <p>More diversity of opinion would be welcome. If Ms. Howell can find it in the Post, she’s more thorough than I am. The Post long ago lost its Watergate investigation progressivism. It lost its middle of the roadness by 2001. But by all means, jump over your desk backwards, Ms. Howell, to recover your Republican street cred. You certainly have none as an ”ombudsperson” for anyone to the left of Irving Kristol.</p> <p>I have to agree with Julia; a net loss of 650 means the Post has been doing a bang up job keeping its GOP’ers happy, the only constituency Ms. Howell deems legitimate. The Post seems far from filing for bankruptcy, like the Tribune Co. Keeping other readers happy? Not the Post’s problem; progressives can always read the Washington Times.</p> More diversity of opinion would be welcome. If Ms. Howell can find it in the Post, she’s more thorough than I am. The Post long ago lost its Watergate investigation progressivism. It lost its middle of the roadness by 2001. But by all means, jump over your desk backwards, Ms. Howell, to recover your Republican street cred. You certainly have none as an ”ombudsperson” for anyone to the left of Irving Kristol.

I have to agree with Julia; a net loss of 650 means the Post has been doing a bang up job keeping its GOP’ers happy, the only constituency Ms. Howell deems legitimate. The Post seems far from filing for bankruptcy, like the Tribune Co. Keeping other readers happy? Not the Post’s problem; progressives can always read the Washington Times.

]]> By: Otay http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/deborah-howells-foolish-consistency/#comment-1769834 Otay Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:43:42 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/deborah-howells-foolish-consistency/#comment-1769834 <p>We should beg the WaPo and Howell to keep Howell on. Furthermore, we should ask them follow all of Howell’s advice on having more GOP voices at the WaPo.</p> <p>I, for one, would be more than happy to see where that gets them.</p> We should beg the WaPo and Howell to keep Howell on. Furthermore, we should ask them follow all of Howell’s advice on having more GOP voices at the WaPo.

I, for one, would be more than happy to see where that gets them.

]]> By: Hugh http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/deborah-howells-foolish-consistency/#comment-1769771 Hugh Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:59:56 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/deborah-howells-foolish-consistency/#comment-1769771 <p>That and there has been an acceleration in media consolidation.</p> That and there has been an acceleration in media consolidation.

]]> By: dcblogger http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/deborah-howells-foolish-consistency/#comment-1769761 dcblogger Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:45:42 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/deborah-howells-foolish-consistency/#comment-1769761 <p>Truly bizarre, I don’t thing that Obama lost a single precinct inside the Beltway. These people truly inhabit another universe.</p> Truly bizarre, I don’t thing that Obama lost a single precinct inside the Beltway. These people truly inhabit another universe.

]]> By: RevBev http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/deborah-howells-foolish-consistency/#comment-1769760 RevBev Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:45:23 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/deborah-howells-foolish-consistency/#comment-1769760 <p>OT More Baddd KBR stories….who’d think?</p> OT More Baddd KBR stories….who’d think?

]]> By: rwcole http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/deborah-howells-foolish-consistency/#comment-1769757 rwcole Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:42:45 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/deborah-howells-foolish-consistency/#comment-1769757 <p>ya can get a McDonald’s double cheeseburger fer a buck- and a 42 oz drink for another buck.</p> ya can get a McDonald’s double cheeseburger fer a buck- and a 42 oz drink for another buck.

]]> By: CTuttle http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/deborah-howells-foolish-consistency/#comment-1769752 CTuttle Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:39:58 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/deborah-howells-foolish-consistency/#comment-1769752 <p>I work with a lot of college students and most of them eat from the Dollar menu from McD’s, pizza being relegated to a luxury item nowadays…! A sign of the times?</p> I work with a lot of college students and most of them eat from the Dollar menu from McD’s, pizza being relegated to a luxury item nowadays…! A sign of the times?

]]> By: dakine01 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/deborah-howells-foolish-consistency/#comment-1769747 dakine01 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:34:13 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/deborah-howells-foolish-consistency/#comment-1769747 <p>That’s usually the case with that type of ‘comfort’ food. Kinda like one of the southern delicacies of a plate of biscuits covered in sausage gravy. </p> <p>When I was in college there was a truck-stop out by the interstate highway that served that for $.60. Many a night of drinking ended out at the Olde Fort Truck Stop for a late night snack.</p> That’s usually the case with that type of ‘comfort’ food. Kinda like one of the southern delicacies of a plate of biscuits covered in sausage gravy.

When I was in college there was a truck-stop out by the interstate highway that served that for $.60. Many a night of drinking ended out at the Olde Fort Truck Stop for a late night snack.

]]> By: californiarealitycheck http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/deborah-howells-foolish-consistency/#comment-1769746 californiarealitycheck Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:33:21 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/deborah-howells-foolish-consistency/#comment-1769746 <p>i think before the net and tv explosion there were fewer press in numbers. the large stations did it (news) as a public survice and lost money. now it is classified as intertainment. news still loses money. ask ted turner.</p> i think before the net and tv explosion there were fewer press in numbers. the large stations did it (news) as a public survice and lost money. now it is classified as intertainment. news still loses money. ask ted turner.

]]> By: CTuttle http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/deborah-howells-foolish-consistency/#comment-1769744 CTuttle Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:31:23 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/22/deborah-howells-foolish-consistency/#comment-1769744 <p>Won’t argue with that, but, it is tasty, filling, and cheap…! ;-)</p> Won’t argue with that, but, it is tasty, filling, and cheap…! ;-)

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