Is The Post Sponsoring a Partisan Event?

Is The Post Sponsoring a Partisan Event?

The Washington Post took some flak in one of its online chats today regarding whether its appropriate for the newspaper company to be helping to sponsor the upcoming “America Supports You Freedom Walk.”

Critics went after it on two levels: the first that it’s inappropriate to “celebrate” the 9/11 anniversary–the ceremony should be solemn, not a party and concert on the Mall; second, they questioned the “polarizing” nature of the event: a country music concert in Washington, D.C.?

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