The Washington Post has done lots of stories about restaurant inspection, and disclosure of those results.

So it’s sorta weird that after the employee cafeteria at the Washington Post’s office downtown was closed by health inspectors last week, Post editorial writer Charles Lane, sent an email to newsroom staffers.

According to the Washington City Paper, Lane wrote:

For us, the closure of the cafeteria due to cleanliness issues is a minor inconvenience, a bit of an institutional embarrassment, a modest health issue and, of course, fodder for the usual newsroom snark.

For the cheerful, hard-working father of four who wakes up every day before dawn to make our coffee and spread out our salad bar, however, it is a serious matter, entailing loss of income, reputational damage, additional expenses, etc. – even though it’s entirely unclear how much this decent, honest man, or the employees who assist him, are actually at fault, or how much harm anyone actually suffered.

So it would be nice if he did not also have to contend with being mentioned, and indeed implicitly mocked, by name, in the press, before he’s even had a chance to remedy the situation and submit to follow-up inspection.