The Journal Gives Props To The Post

Here I confess to a personal bias, related to nothing more than reading the Washington Post over the years, which is that it’s an exceptionally brainy newspaper.

Intelligence as a quality is hit or miss in most newspaper writing and editing. At the Post, they seem to have institutionalized it. You rarely find the collapses of critical judgment that seem to be routine at other papers when, say, a trial lawyer appears claiming evidence of racism in the auto dealership industry or at an oil company.

Absent too are the excesses of billboard journalism–the habit of editors casually intruding a noisy paragraph that oversells and distorts the story below, leaving an unsatisfying jumble of facts that don’t live up to the assertions at the top.

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