The Washington Post Will Not Tolerate Its Employees Enjoying Themselves

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Christmas Ape, freed
Published 4/17/2008 by PostmanE at The Postmen // A Sports Blog // Chicago, IL.
It’s hard to add much to this story about KSK blogger Christmas Ape and his apparent firing at the hands of some humorless Washington Post human resources drones. After all, if you’re reading us, you’re probably reading KSK, Mister Irrelevant, With Leather, and Deadspin, and they’ve already dominated the thing. But because this whole blogger/professional dynamic intrigues me, here’s two more unsolicited cents. I’m new to the workforce, and I work for a dot com (though a ...

This story has nothing to do with the Redskins
Published 4/17/2008 by Skin Patrol <info@hogshaven.com> at Hogs Haven: Front Page Posts
... of my favorite websites. Unsilent Majority aka Jack Kogod is one of my favoritest bloggers in all the internets, and he writes for KSK. He's also about as strong a Redskins fan as exists, anywhere, ever, in history. One of his blogging colleagues is Christmas Ape who also happened to be a real journalist for the Washington Post, up until he ousted himself as the kind of totally unprofessional immoral monster that would dare consume alcohol. Full details are here. The truncated versions of events is: Christmas Ape is totally awesome ...

When An International Media Giant Faces Off Against A Bunch Of Self-Righteous Dickheads, We All Lose
Published 4/18/2008 by Pulp at The Gil Meche Experience
Well, I guess everyone but the self-righteous dickheads and their massive circle jerk. I may be late on the OMFG XMAS APE GOT FIRED story, but if anything, that allows me to hate it even more. If you read all the breathless blogging coverage (go here for a roundup), you would think Ape was fired merely for posting a drunk picture of himself and mentioning he worked for the Washington Post. Of course, you would have to be a fucking idiot to believe that, and judging by the plethora of posts stating that these are the facts, the internet is (of course) full of fucking morons. ...

Double Standards At The Washington Post
Published 4/18/2008 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
Washington Post employee Michael Tunison was asked to leave-and-never-return earlier this week, after outing himself as Kissing Suzy Kolber Ko-Konspirator Christmas Ape. Or perhaps it was the other way around. It’s hard to keep all of these pseudonymous pursuits straight. Though I ordinarily wouldn’t shed tears for this gentleman, Editor & Publisher cited the following provisions from the WaPo’s stylebook : We work for no one except The Washington Post without permission from supervisors. Many outside activities ...