Whoa: More Newspaper Woes

The Washington Post clearly didn’t have a very good weekend. First, circulation numbers continue to drop. Then, the Washington Post Company’s third-quarter earnings dropped. And Jack Shafer takes them to task for royally excessive coverage of Charles and Camille (as in “10 pieces totaling 11,500 words” excessive”).

Then there’s this interesting–and fairly underreported–news item. Post reporter Matthew Mosk “may have violated a federal privacy law and the newspaper’s ethical code when he used an unidentified person’s account to view private conversations that linked a former aide to Gov.

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