Why did they let the Washington Post turn conservative? [View All]

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I read both the biography of Katharine Graham and the biography of Ben Bradlee recently, and I've got to wonder, why did they let the post turn conservative? Surely with the Washington Times around, the Post could at least slant a LITTLE to the left as in the old days? Instead, it's increasingly slanting right.

This from The Nation:

The Bush team still has its media apologists, of course. Bob Woodward, who serves as the Administration's unofficial autobiographer, took to the Larry King program to pooh-pooh the whole thing as just "one little piece of thousands of pieces that get sifted when they put something like this together." (Now do you wonder why they turn the secret NSC notes over to this guy?) Meanwhile, Ari Fleischer's personal flack, the Washington Post's Howie Kurtz, tried to blame the entire outcry on "the left," as in: "The left is now up in arms about one sentence in George Bush's last State of the Union speech." (Just "one sentence." Just one war. Just how silly can we leftists be?)

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030804&s=alterman