Posts Tagged ‘Washington Post’
Hail to the Passing Generation: R.I.P.
Recently, the comments on my Washington Post partums list-serv, which grew exponentially in February with the abrupt firing of up to 300 from the newsroom, have had two main themes:…
Read More“All the President’s Men” 50 years on
The New York Times recalls the film and era, and so do I. It’s ironic that a retrospective on the 50th anniversary of the Academy Award-winning film b”All the President’s…
Read MorePlay ball! Washington Post Update.
During the depths of the pandemic, there was one bright spot come spring. Baseball was back! Fans couldn’t actually attend games, but they could watch them on cable. The ballpark…
Read MoreKeeping Posted
Bezos wants clickbait! More departures. Forget the seven principles enunciated by my namesake Eugene Meyer The Washington Post’s billionaire owner Jeff Bezos made it clear to a select group of Post people he…
Read MoreThe Bicentennial +50 – Looking Back and Ahead
The Bicentennial was 50 years ago. Planning for it was contentious. We are now on the cusp of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, our semiquincentennial, if you…
Read MoreThe End of the [Book] World
NOTE: Feb. 21, 2026 — It was a bittersweet night at the iconic indie bookstore Politics and Prose in Northwest DC…
Read MoreDemocracy Dies in Darkness. Indeed!
As I write this, I am reading about the utter destruction and decimation of the Washington Post staff by Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of the newspaper since 2013, who…
Read MoreAIN’T NO BACK TO A MERRY-GO-ROUND
My final edition No, not of this blog but as the editor of B’nai B’rith Magazine, the eclectic Jewish magazine I’ve been proud to helm for 16 years. The current…
Read MoreMy Lai, William Calley, Pete Hegseth, and Donald Trump
More than half a century ago, the military prosecuted and convicted Lt. William Calley for the murder of “not less than 22” unarmed Vietnamese in the hamlet of My Lai…
Read MoreMorton Mintz, R.I.P. and Washington Post Buyouts Then and Now
My friend Mort Mintz died this week at 103. Fittingly, the Washington Post, where we were colleagues for many years, gave him a nice obit, starting on the Metro news…
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