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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Washington City Paper, Washington Informer, Capitol Hill Corner, Hey DC, the 51st, WAMU, WPFW, WTOP, all the ANC listserves, etc. I've been having to cobble things together for a while since the Post's Metro coverage started it's slide years ago.

Didn't cancel before but there will not be anything I care to read. They already have a health section, which is ok. Their national and food sections are not as good as NYT. Losing the book section. They will have to create a business section out of whole cloth since they basically already did away with it. Not much left for me.

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This is a really helpful roundup - thanks. Definitely agree about cobbling together lots of different sources.

I’m seeing a lot of people bring up the 51st - I think the 51st absolutely has its merits but it’s also very small and quite overtly biased (part of that is editorial judgment but it’s also just a natural side effect of a smaller, self-selecting publication).

Of course, *all* media is biased, but one of the key advantages of a huge and established paper (like WaPo, formerly) is that it can support a diverse and vetted slate of opinion writers and larger newsrooms where strong teams can check each other and work towards clear and fair reporting that gets as close to the “truth” as possible. There just won’t be a replacement for what WaPo once was…sigh. I am sad.[/quote]

I absolutely would not rely on the 51st fo local news.

One day before the Post detonated its Metro section, it published a lengthy, well-reported expose of the fraud perpetuated by DC’s taxpayer-funded violence interruption industry. Do you think the 51st would ever publish such a story? Their reporters, particularly lazy-ass Martin, only report on things that are spoon-fed by their preferred Council members. They never do investigative work like that, mainly because they are afraid that my what they will uncover will shatter their very narrow world views.

Even with the Post’s demise, there are better options than the 51st (and anyone who says Popville should immediately leave the city),[/quote]

This is an excellent point.  At the center of the violence-interruptor fraud was council member

- Trayon White (Ward 8).

Don’t make the mistake of simply dismissing Trayon White, just because the rest of the Council unanimously voted to kick him off the council.  Remember:

Ward 8 was Marion Barry’s territory.  And like Barry, the residents of Ward 8 gladly voted Trayon White right back onto the city council.

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