The unprofessionalism of the WaPo, pointed out
earlier by Armando, appears to be not just a question of a single incident but something that has become ingrained in the culture of the Washington Post.
This morning's paper had a notice in the obituary section that showed the cold unprofesionalism in their production department:
"The Washington Post sold too many advertisements for its newspaper yesterday and cut out two pages of paid death notices, angering many people who had expected to see them... A robust week of sales by the advertising department for the paper's classified sections led to two more pages than the production staff had expected"
The death notices are paid advertising! The difference is that unlike regular advertisers people only die once. Families who paid to put a death notice in the well read Sunday paper so that friends, family and the WaPo readership know about their lives and their passing were sidelined so the Post could collect more revenues.
SHAME!