Green Party Day at the Washington Post
Today was “Green Party Day” at the Washington Post, where they posted two stories (one tongue in cheek) in response to a small protest in front of the Post building. The Greens were protesting the lack of coverage the Washington Post provides toward the Green Party, which in DC is virtually the second party after the Democrats.
A group of about 15 protestors and candidates from a Certain Political Party That Will Go Unnamed gathered outside the Washington Post building today to protest their belief that the company “routinely ignores or marginalizes the party’s candidates.”
However another article with less wit was also posted:
The protest was partially inspired by a May 29 online discussion with Post congressional reporter Paul Kane, in which he said, “We don’t have enough resources to cover [the Green Party].”
The Post’s executive editor, Leonard Downie Jr., said Kane isn’t the one who makes those decisions.
“What we’ve been covering up until now is the nomination process of the two major parties,” Downie said. Future coverage of third-party candidates, he said, “would be based on the past performance of those candidates, and how much interest we think our readers have in them.”
