Kurtz: Solomon Is "Revamping" WaTimes
From Howard Kurtz’s WaPo profile of Washington Times Executive Editor John Solomon:
“If I made one fundamental change,” he says, “it’s to make sure opinion and commentary didn’t bleed onto the news pages.” … Solomon’s aim, [says WaTimes’r Ralph Hallows], is to satisfy a conservative audience “without making the newspaper a shill for any of the causes of the right, for the Bible-thumpers — something that is sensitive to them but doesn’t pander to them.”
And…
As he tries to change the paper’s mission, Solomon sees its modest size as an advantage.
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