It's a Christmas miracle, everybody! Just weeks after his tragic layoff from the McClatchy newspaper chain, Latin America reporter Tyler Bridges has a new gig with the Washington Post's online PostGlobal thingy!!
When we last left our hero, he was busy constantly misspelling difficult faraway place-names like "Venice" and "Brazil." But he has now grown as a reporter, guys, and in his PostGlobal debut he only screws up real tough names like that of Brazil's president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. In all fairness, this is a very difficult and foreign-sounding name!! Anyway congratulations, Tyler!
Update--A reader corrects us: "I think you have Global Post (which really is just a collaborative effort of freelance reporters) confused with Post Global, which is the WaPo/Newsweek site. I know, I don't know how anyone could ever confuse those two. Bridges could only wish he was affiliated with something like Post Global right now, I think." So there you go.
Comments (13)
Global Post! Holy End of Year wrapups, Batman!!... it was almost exactly a year ago (31 December 2009) that I set off a small Latin American blog-o-shit-bomb about their attempts to lure me -- and Otto and others -- into cyber-peonage.
Tyler may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he doesn't deserve this.
http://mexfiles.net/2008/12/31/hell-no-we-wont-go-on-global-post-huffington-post-etc/
Posted by Richard Grabman
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December 27, 2009 8:12 PM
Posted on December 27, 2009 20:12
AND a hottie.
Posted by QueenBina
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December 23, 2009 8:46 PM
Posted on December 23, 2009 20:46
I still can't stop laughing at that "Senior Licker of the Caligulan butt crack". Pen of a genius!:)
Posted by Utpal
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December 23, 2009 7:47 PM
Posted on December 23, 2009 19:47
Matt Taibbi is a hottie.
Posted by QueenBina
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December 23, 2009 6:19 PM
Posted on December 23, 2009 18:19
Is Adam Isaacson related to Walter Isaacson?
Posted by Utpal
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December 23, 2009 3:43 PM
Posted on December 23, 2009 15:43
Uh huh ... Caligula, Biggus Dickus, ...:)
Posted by Utpal
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December 23, 2009 3:06 PM
Posted on December 23, 2009 15:06
The best line:
...it’s incredibly easy to imagine the nebbishy, hairy-kneed Gaius Domitus Brooksius strolling through Rome and swelling with pride over his new appointment to the post of Senior Licker of the Caligulan butt crack.
Posted by Paul Escobar
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December 23, 2009 2:57 PM
Posted on December 23, 2009 14:57
New Canadian libel laws prevent me from sharing my best guess.
But I can say that it ain't "truth" (which is pretty obvious).
Now turning our attention away from alcohol & possibly child abuse...
I urge all of you to read this BRILLIANT Matt Taibbi blog post:
Matt Taibbi gives prep-school dork a wedgie & steals his lunch money
Posted by Paul Escobar
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December 23, 2009 2:37 PM
Posted on December 23, 2009 14:37
Truth abuse?
But that's usually not an impediment for a journalist ...
Posted by Utpal
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December 23, 2009 2:26 PM
Posted on December 23, 2009 14:26
Why was Tyler Bridges fired?
Have you seen that mugshot?
That thing has " * abuse " written all over it.
Where " * " represents your best guess. :(
Posted by Paul Escobar
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December 23, 2009 2:19 PM
Posted on December 23, 2009 14:19
Why was Tyler Bridges fired?
Posted by Utpal
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December 23, 2009 11:58 AM
Posted on December 23, 2009 11:58
Holy shit -- I don't know if this will simply mean a shifting of resources to do the exact same thing with different funds, but, still, it's good message and good PR:
And, by the way, fuck the god-damned FARC. Assholes. Assassinating a fucking governor. They absolutely love fucking up Colombia's chances of any non-narcoguerrilla opposition. Bastards.
Still, until Colombia settles its civil war, this shit will go on, and on, and on, and on...
Posted by El Cid
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December 23, 2009 10:51 AM
Posted on December 23, 2009 10:51
One more journalistic failure who fell up in the world. I don't know how it happens, but I guess I should stop being so surprised.
Posted by QueenBina
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December 22, 2009 9:57 PM
Posted on December 22, 2009 21:57