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The whole world knows the Washington Post, or thinks it does. Among
heartland U.S. conservatives, the notion persists that the Post is the
"liberal" establishment's media flagship. And it's true that the Post has
been and remains a loyal servitor of the U.S. establishment. Katharine
Graham, union-busting "Chairman" (as she styles herself) of the Post's
board and possibly the richest woman alive, is on record as saying that
the public is best kept in the dark about certain goings-on in the official
world. (See Deborah Davis's biography of Graham, indexed in NameBase but
successfully suppressed by the Post's lawyers.) And a small army of Post
editors and contributors, including now-retired Ben Bradlee and star
reporter Bob Woodward, have murky intelligence-world connections. (See
"Silent Coup" by Colodny and Gettlin for the spooky background to the
Post's Watergate glory days.)
Alas, the ruling spirit of the Post's editorial pages might best be
characterized as "Reaganism with a human face." One-note, soft-issue
columnists like Ellen Goodman do appear, but conservatives have a lock on
foreign policy, domestic politics, and the economy. Thus amid our ruins,
Robert Samuelson keeps writing that we never had it so good.
-- Steve Badrich
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