Hmmmm. Is imitation the sincerest form of flattery? Or did washingtonpost.com just snag the title of this column for its own nefarious purposes? For the last couple weeks Terry M. Neal has been calling his online column at washingtonpost.com “talking points.”
True enough, “talking points” is a common phrase. But for another column which is a) online, b) about politics, and c) based in Washington, DC. can’t they find another title?
What gives? The corporate media behemoth can just run roughshod over the small independent?
That seems to be the idea.
I’m under no illusion that everyone in journalism knows about this column. But Howard Kurtz writes a daily media column on washingtonpost.com and he’s been picking up bits and morsels from this site (for which, don’t get me wrong, I’m extremely appreciative) about once a week for almost two years. Plus, the site has been written about several times in the Washington Post itself. So I have to imagine that someone at washingtonpost.com knows this site exists.
Alas, the small TPM legal department probably can’t outgun the big-city law firm sharks who work for the Washington Post Company. But by all means drop Terry Neal a line and tell him to put a stop to this egregious trespass.
