- After Washington Post reporter Rajiv Chandrasekaran dissed Post blogger Jennifer Rubin in a tweet, BuzzFeed called it a "Civil War":
Washington Post Civil War Breaks Into Public ViewI hate it when senators refer to WP opinion blogger posts as articles. @JRubinBlogger is NOT a WaPo reporter Senator Jim Inhofe cited a b...- That article said the Post was "Late to the internet and struggling to maintain its status as a top-tier news outlet." Posties pushed back.
I do appreciate @Buzzfeed calling WaPo "late to the internet" when we were on the web a decade before they existed. buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/wash…
Wait, there's a civil war at WaPo? Wonder who will play me in the reenactment. bit.ly/YGICSJ #ThosePeople- D.C. press gadfly Kevin Reiss sprang into action with a Ken Burns-themed clip.
- And then, to the delight of at least one media critic eating lunch, BuzzFeed and Post staffers starting exchanging fire.
.@PhilipRucker @MonicaHesse @BuzzFeed I believe you had the internet operation in a different company, WPNI, in a different STATE, til 2010?
@PhilipRucker @MonicaHesse @BuzzFeed @buzzfeedben just because you own a motorcycle doesn't mean you ever ride it.- @McCollumAshley @MonicaHesse @BuzzFeedBen Just because you're a deft handler of motorcycles doesn't mean you invented the wheel
- @McCollumAshley @PhilipRucker @MonicaHesse @BuzzFeed @BuzzFeedBen 42 Videos of Posties Riding Motorcycles Before BuzzFeed Was Born
@jfdulac @McCollumAshley @MonicaHesse @BuzzFeedBen Buzzfeed/#wapo trash talk has distracted me from story I was writing with my quill pen.
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