Arkin Gets Naked (Not Safe For Work Without an Editor*)
Speaking of prom dresses, this one’s off … like a prom dress!
WaPo ombudsman Deborah Howell gently chides William Arkin for using the M-word in his soldier-bashing blog item, and says that although he is a highly respected blah blah blah expert, he needed a grownup to read that first,* to spare him the injury of angry letters and the Washington Post the embarrassment of being associated with him, after he said what he really thinks and called American soldiers “mercenaries.”
But here’s the best part. Arkin bragged to Howell he’s “probably one of the best-known and respected anti-military military bloggers.”
* Actually, a higher-ranking editor, as the line scrub who read it OK’d it, but the Post’s .com executive editor, Monday morning quarterbacking the issue, opined that he would have removed the offending epithet.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:58 am on Monday, February 12, 2007
4 Responses to “Arkin Gets Naked (Not Safe For Work Without an Editor*)”
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February 12th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Why are they trying to sanitize what Arkin said? Does this mean that they somehow know how wrong it was?
February 12th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
Ombudsman: “Arkin’s column did not meet Post standards”
A Blog’s Blast DamageBy Deborah Howell (H/T: Allahpundit) The fact that The Post and washingtonpost.com are interlocking yet separate is lost on most readers, who do not care that the two are miles apart physically and under different management. A
February 12th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Bill’s Nibbles– 2007.02.12
Some Bill’s Bites posts, some things I excerpted and linked but I’m sending you to the original post. I may rearrange the order of the items within this post as I add new things that I think belong above the
February 12th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
Arkin’s column did not meet Post standards
Problem is…that’s not saying much ;->