Not To Indulge In Stereotypes, Necessarily…
By Mitch Berg
…but really, what kind of a he-man do you have to to flex on your newspaper’s “Style” reporter?
Oh, this is about the throwdown in the WaPo newsroom between Style reporter Manuel Roig-Franzia and Henry Allen:
Multiple Post sources independently confirmed to POLITICO that Roig-Franzia got hit while defending colleague Monica Hesse from harsh criticism leveled by her editor, Allen.
Allen, according to the Washingtonian, had told Hesse that a piece she had written was “the second worst story I have seen in Style in 43 years.”
Roig-Franzia, also working a story with Hesse that ran Saturday, told Allen not to be such a “c—sucker.”
Q: When two newspapers reports slug it out, who wins?
A: The whole world.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:42 am
“what kind of a he-man do you have to to flex on your newspaper’s “Style” reporter”
A Marine Corps veteran who served in Vietnam.
http://www.washingtonian.com/blogarticles/people/capitalcomment/14004.html
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:53 am
Wow. Musta been quite a fight.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:54 am
Either that, or the Marine Corps history was balanced by the fact that the man was 70 years old.
Not that I’d want to pick a fight with him, either.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:56 am
70, and short-timing; he’d apparently taken a buyout and had two weeks until he left the paper.