WaPo's Publisher Sold Her Paper's Editorial Integrity

New York Times:

Katharine Weymouth, the relatively new publisher of The Washington Post, is a lawyer who worked for the company for 12 years and was educated at the Harvard School of Business, so she is hardly a naïf in running a business.

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Comments

[GreatNews27]

Whoa! Scary picture! Her face must reflect her ethics.

[SeeJaneRunning]

Pot, meet kettle. Kettle, pot.

[PWM]

Nasty set of fangs.

[blood1]

Not exactly sure of the math, but it sounds like Integrity was sold pretty cheap! This was a lobbyist wet-dream...

So for all the calls that "we must save the newpapers", it seems as if those who know how to use the electronic media gave their competition a pretty swift blow! If all we had was print media, this event would never have seen the light of day and the reading public would never have learned of it.

[dinglebe]

If we found Katharine Weymouth in a saloon in the old West, we would know what she was selling.

[nogimmicks]

Neither NYT nor WasPo never had any editorial integrity. May be some writers occasionally were allowed to do the right thing, but only some and sometimes.

[bigsioux]

Yeah, and they ain't never not going to have integrity.

[twistedknickers]

The NYT has no room to talk after hiring that mouthbreather Bill Kristol.

[jalowe1957]

Somewhere down the road, the WaPo lost all its journalistic standards and all its journalistic integrity.

Sad that such a great paper has become a shill for the wingnut fringe.

[satyriasis]

Another MBA type driving a company into the ground. Just like Bush drove our country into the ground. Harvard Business school needs to be shut down ASAP. It's hurting America.

[Antifascist-08]

As much as i agree with your assessment, Bush hardly qualifies as an MBA.

He probably attended a few classes- maybe. Thats about it.

[DamaskinosWasRight]

Baloney.

NYT / Politico just want to beat up a competitor.

Politico was started by ex Posties.

Private discussions are not integrity compromising.
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[ratcityreprobate]

Katharine Weymouth, Janet Cooke, Dana Milbank are all cut from the same cloth.

[CatfishAndGrits]

Pot meet Kettle, Kettle...Pot

[SeeJaneRunning]

LOL, I made the exact same comment up above!

[zukervati]

Lally's Harvard edumacated daughter, thought she could come in and "save" the family's crown jewel from itself. WaPo sold its soul decades ago to its blood-brethren neo-CONS. In the guise of being a left leaning paper, it sure did everything it could to undermine the Middle East peace process and cheered on the first and second Iraq invasion. Post-invasion, it kept its mouth shut "out of fear of being sued for libel" - http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2009/may/12/washington-post-us-press-publishing
WaPo deserves to be at the top of the discarded ideology heap!

[LiberalDem]

Yes the Washington Post sold its soul/integrity a long time ago. Their Op-Ed page is filled with conservative columnistsand Bush adminstration apologists such as Michael Gerson and John Bolten are regularly given ample space to present the tired and discredited views of their former employers.

[truthyguy]

I don't pretend to know the way to solve the crisis in readership facing the newspaper industry, but even I know that buying and selling influence is not the answer. It's what people like Cheney, Rove, and K Street lobbyists do - and what the newspapers are supposed to expose.

[Hammerofthor]

What editorial integrity?

[whit4brains]

My thoughts exactly.