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Tuesday, December 13, 2005 12:00 AM

When is the Washington Post not the Washington Post?

It's not a trick question. Not really.

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  • Tuesday, December 13, 2005 03:33 PM

    Thank you

    for highlighting the partisan dumping on Froomkin from the Post's White House reporters. It gives the lie to the notion that Woodward was a renegade celebrity ideologue and shows other areas of the newsroom have fallen into complicity. In my mind, WP has completely fallen out of the running as a credible alternative to the New York Times as the nation's newspaper of record.

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