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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a Democrat, a long time Post reader, and the WP is lucky to be getting a WSJ editor.  No one writes news better than the reporters at WSJ. Crisp, succinct, who what when where why. The WP had been awful for years and desperately needs new leadership. Get rid of the fluff and go back to hard news. [/quote]
The problem with the Post is obviously a lack of management control. They had the best newspaper editor in the country and they hated his guts because he only wanted them to high quality work, while the staff apparently wanted to produce content that competes with Refinery29 or Gawker. Marty Baron eventually had enough, the staff won, Bezos laid off all of the editors who knew what a newspaper was because they had high salaries and now the inmates are running the asylum. [/quote]

This is some sort of weird fever dream. Marty Baron retired because he'd been a top editor of various newspapers for 20 years -- any one of which is a very high-pressure job -- and ran the Post during two contentious elections and a pandemic. And he was 67 years old. A lot of the "content that competes with Refinery29" was specifically produced by teams that Marty helped bring into existence. [/quote]

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