Gene Weingarten Quotes
The total wall is between editorial and newsroom. And unbreachable barrier. For good reason. It doesn't mean the two sides don't talk.
Weingarten, Gene. "Chatological Humor." The Washington Post, WP Company.
She had started this newspapers after the premises of her last paper had been ransacked by rowdies insulted by the fact that she wrote of things that were considered private. In one instance a prominent slave owner who had business in town brought a slave servant who gave birth to a child in St. Cloud. The owner sent the mother and child to his Southern home and Swisshelm wrote an editorial and claimed he was a felon who kidnapped a child in Minnesota and transported her into slavery in the South.
Gene Norman Weingarten is an American syndicated humor columnist at The Washington Post. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. Weingarten is known for both his serious and humorous work. Weingarten's column, "Below the Beltway," is published weekly in The Washington Post magazine and syndicated nationally by The Washington Post Writers Group, which also syndicates Barney & Clyde, a comic strip he co-authors with his son, Dan Weingarten, with illustrations by David Clark.
