Washington Post Video
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After 24 knee operations, the National Football League’s former Man of the Year leans heavily on a crutch. When Reggie Williams pulls up his pants leg, what’s underneath looks like the trimmings from a butcher shop. His right leg is so ravaged that it’s three inches shorter than his left. Worse, it’s uninsured.
Reggie Williams played in the NFL for 14 years. He has had 24 knee surgeries, four of which were knee replacements. WIlliams has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars out of pocket on health problems stemming from his NFL career. But how much of that should be the NFL’s responsibility?
Fold producer Gabe Silverman interviewed Williams for part 3 of The Washington Post’s series on NFL and medicine. And read Rick Maese and Sally Jenkins story—Do no harm: Paying the price, paying the cost.
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The Fold’s host Brook Silva-Braga and producer Gabe Silverman wore the same shirt yesterday. It’s like looking at a mirror.
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Apparently we only should post things about Joe Biden.
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The little old woman with the wig glued to her helmet is talking to three men in suits about war.
It’s sweltering in the August sunshine, and everything about these men — their designer sunglasses, unsheathed BlackBerrys, stiff postures — conveys a desire to escape the conversation. The woman keeps talking.
“This is very important,” she is saying, her voice an emphatic falsetto. “We’ve got to stop Iran.”
If you’ve been to the North side of the White House, you’ve probably seen Connie Picciotto. She’s the woman who has inhabited a shelter on the edge of Lafayette Square Park for the past 30 years.
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The devil was just over Pine Ridge.
From the deserted parking lot on the edge of town, the three servants of God looked into darkness.
They clicked on their flashlights, pushed through the initial thicket of brush and began their trek, aiming for the black wooded slope.
First, the house painter: bearded, calm, quiet.
Second, the Catholic nun: gentle, grandmotherly, short of breath.
Third, the drifter: alert, intense, shouldering supplies.
Dan Zak tells the story of the Prophets of Oak Ridge—three peace activists who broke into the Y-12 nuclear-weapons facility in Tennessee. A chain reaction followed.
The Fold spoke with “the Catholic nun,” Sister Megan Gillespie Rice.
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We’re welcoming the White House to tumblr! Even if they don’t know how to pronounce gif. It’s soft ‘g’ gif. Like the Peanut Butter. Fortunately nobody can hear you say it wrong on tumblr.
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We’re testing out Google glass and it’s pretty awesome. Except they don’t really know what The Washington Post is. But that can be fixed right?
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“In D.C. to perform at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Practicing my opening ‘Goofy Sunglasses’ bit.” - Conan
Conan O’Brien is SOMEWHERE IN D.C. We’re going to find him so we’ll be off Tumblr for awhile…
But you’ll definitely be able to find him on Saturday night on washingtonpost.com where we’ll have live video of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
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The Washington Post | Video Internships Come work with us! (Not for us. We pay our interns. :) )
UPDATE—Hey, so, um, the link is working now. Sorry about that. There’s still time apply. Applications are due by April 30.
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Once Upon a Time in Washington
With Watergate’s 40th anniversary approaching, Annie Leibovitz takes a historic photo of the scandal’s storytellers—Robert Redford, Carl Bernstein, Ben Bradlee, and Bob Woodward—inside the Washington Post newsroom.
Tom Brokaw writes about their legacy here.
Photograph by Annie Leibovitz
NOT PICTURED: The entire newsroom gawking in the background and taking photos on their phones.
