CROSSING THE (WHITE) LINE
A Washington Post writer is apologizing for calling District of Columbia Council member and former mayor Marion Barry a "crack addict" in an e-mail to Barry's aide.
Tim Page, a Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic, wrote the e-mail after receiving a news release on Barry's views of the financially troubled Greater Southeast Community Hospital.
In the e-mail, Page wrote, "Must we hear about it every time this crack addict attempts to rehabilitate himself with some new ... and typically half-witted ... political grandstanding? I'd be grateful if you would take me off your mailing list. I cannot think of anything the useless Marion Barry could do that would interest me in the slightest, up to and including overdose."
Page said he had been cursed by a Barry staffer when he tried to have his name removed from the council's mailing list before he fired off the e-mail.
Executive Editor of the Post, Leonard Downie Jr., called Page's e-mail "a terrible mistake," and said internal actions were being taken, although he wouldn't say what.
Barry called for the firing of the critic who plans to take a previously scheduled four-month leave starting Jan. 1.
Good timing.
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Tim Page, a Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic, wrote the e-mail after receiving a news release on Barry's views of the financially troubled Greater Southeast Community Hospital.
In the e-mail, Page wrote, "Must we hear about it every time this crack addict attempts to rehabilitate himself with some new ... and typically half-witted ... political grandstanding? I'd be grateful if you would take me off your mailing list. I cannot think of anything the useless Marion Barry could do that would interest me in the slightest, up to and including overdose."
Page said he had been cursed by a Barry staffer when he tried to have his name removed from the council's mailing list before he fired off the e-mail.
Executive Editor of the Post, Leonard Downie Jr., called Page's e-mail "a terrible mistake," and said internal actions were being taken, although he wouldn't say what.
Barry called for the firing of the critic who plans to take a previously scheduled four-month leave starting Jan. 1.
Good timing.
Photo by Baboona
Labels: Marion Barry, music critic, Pulitzer Prize, Tim Page, Washington D.C.
posted by Diana at 2:20 PM
5 Comments:
no comment... we all agree with page
Where's the defamation of character? He is/was a convicted crack addict. The biggest crime is that he is permitted to hold any public office again! Why is this being made a racial issue? He was caught in an undercover drug sting operation and just happens to be Black.
Have you seen the work of the Barry Communication Director Mr. Page was dealing with?
I thought Marion Barry was dead.
Well,I guess his death was merely a political one.
He once was a crack addict...He is now a recovering crack addict.
Mr. Page's apparent social faux paus was merely not including the word,"recovering".
In the final analysis...who really cares?
I thought Marion Barry was dead.
Well,I guess his death was merely a political one.
He once was a crack addict...He is now a recovering crack addict.
Mr. Page's apparent social faux paus was merely not including the word,"recovering".
In the final analysis...who really cares?
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