What Achenbach's Thankful For

Today we give thanks.

We are thankful to work for a newspaper that somehow, day in, day out, provides a marvelous and, as has been widely noted, almost punishing amount of information, analysis, sports scores and quasi-literate musings, plus comics, plus coupons, plus entire sections you’ve never even noticed until you’ve been asked to do the critique, all of it on sale for less than the price of your average oatmeal cookie.

We are thankful that, despite our many failings, and the alleged putrefaction of the newspaper business, The Washington Post continues to be a stellar name brand, and turns a very respectable profit.

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