WCP Editor is Anti-Jalapeño Schmear

The jalapeño schmear in a letter published in WaPo over the weekend caught the stern eye of Washington City Paper Editor-in-Chief Mike Madden.

The letter to WaPo complained about a headline choice completely destroyed a recent episode of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” because it reads: “Spoiler Alert — They All Die.” Andrew Hartman, the writer, hadn’t had a chance to watch the episode and he accused WaPo of ruining it for him. He led with the fact that he was eating an everything bagel with jalapeño schmear while reading WaPo and further guilted them by informing that the bagel and schmear came from New York, where he’d been celebrating his father’s 86th birthday over the weekend.

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