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WaPo shreds cred

2009-07-07 14:13:52.193402+00 by Dan Lyke 3 comments

Scott Rosenberg has a little bit of commentary on the Washington Post's recent "pay to play" scandal putting the final bullet in the head of credibility of conventional "journalism".

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#Comment Re: made: 2009-07-07 15:47:26.509465+00 by: m

Now the Washington Post is whining that its competitors do it too. An article in the Post specifically named the Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Economist, the New Yorker and Newsweek. Trade journals were hit as a class.

#Comment Re: made: 2009-07-07 16:25:58.120552+00 by: Dan Lyke

Oooh. This should be fun. Rule #1 is that you don't turn snitch and rat on your cohorts in crime...

#Comment Re: made: 2009-07-08 16:35:33.237569+00 by: Dan Lyke

Ouch: Rafe nails it in a tweet:

Not very long ago nobody would have seen a move from the Washington Post to the Huffington Post as a step up.