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There’s a robbery-gone-wrong article on the front-page of today’s Washington Post that is so juicy you have to check it out. First, it has incompetent criminals, all with prison records, conspiring to rob someone who couldn’t have had more than a few thousand dollars as the pay-off. Second, one of the recruited crooks was a professional snitch. Third, it had an on-duty DC cop as the look-out– once again reinforcing my view that there is often little difference between the cops and the crooks around here. Fourth, and my favorite part– it had the mastermind’s own son accidentally shooting the father in the middle of the robbery (which isn’t so funny after all because he died). If this were a Hollywood movie script it would be thrown out for being too absurd.
What may be more interesting to us Post-watchers is how the story is written– more as a Paul Harvey broadcast piece than the standard-issue Post article. It is light and breezy, making fun of the would-be robbers, sarcastic and ridiculing all at the same time, very un-like the Post’s typical writing style. It also doesn’t really have a larger point. There isn’t much about the robbery– which happened in early December– to stand out among the daily crime that takes place on the east edge of DC. Is this a new direction for the Post? Did they take the handcuffs off their reporters to allow them more leeway in how they write articles like this? Hard to know. Is this a trend at the Post? Who’s to say…
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