"Journalists are people, too." I'm not the first person to have said this. Leonard Downie Jr., the Washington Post's executive editor, wrote that sentence in a 2004 column explaining to readers the difference between the political endorsements on the editorial pages and the campaign coverage in the paper's news pages.
In the same column, he reiterated and explained his decision since 1984 not to vote. "As the final decision-maker on news coverage in the Post, I refuse to decide, even privately,...
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