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was favorably discussed on right wing radio shows today.
You know how it goes.
"Even the liberal New York Times is showing us how Obama is stupidly antagonizing Jack Bauer, and when Jack Bauer goes away, into his tent, and sulks, like Achilles, it'll all be Obama's fault. And then the Trojans will kill us in our beds."
Okay they didn't really mention Achilles - - that'd be all Greek to the wingnuts.
Mazzetti is a CIA tool but at least this time he's more or less open about that.
Meanwhile, in the same edition of the NYTimes, on top of the editorial page, there's an editorial (unsigned, but probably by editorial board member Dorothy Samuels), that could've been written by Glenn Greenwald. The editorial discusses the wreck which used to be the USDOJ and then lays out the major issues on which Eric Holder should be questioned.
Quite a contrast, people like Dorothy Samuels at the NYTimes versus people like Benjamin Wittes at the WaPo.
The WaPo editorials often make one wonder why the editorial writers seem to ignore significant facts reported by the WaPo news writers, while the NYTimes editorials often make one glad that the editorial writers aren't getting spun by the NYTimes news writers.
But the WaPo has "new" management, so maybe it'll change.
http://www.washingtonian.com/blogarticles/people/capitalcomment/6739.html
Family Dynasty Continues with Katharine II
The rise of Katharine Weymouth to publisher of the Washington Post.
[...]
She’s the only Graham of the third [sic] generation to show interest in joining the family empire, founded when great-grandfather Eugene Meyer bought the Post out of bankruptcy in 1933. In the family line of publishers, she follows grandfather Phil Graham, grandmother Katharine “Kay” Graham, and her uncle Don as publisher. [...]
The "Washingtonian" can't count too good.
Starting with her great-grandfather Eugene, Katherine II is of the FOURTH generation, not the third generation.
Fred Hiatt, the editorial page editor at the WaPo, still reports directly to Katherine II's "Uncle Don" . . . for now. (It's an extremely unusual org chart. At most newspapers, the editorial page editor reports to the publisher, but at the WaPo, the editorial page editor goes around the publisher, and reports directly to the publisher's boss.)
http://washpost.com/news_ed/editorial/index.shtml
"Fred Hiatt, reports directly to The Post's chairman, Donald Graham."
