The Washington Post’s Descent Into Middle School Antics
Bob Woodward at the Washington Post. (Wally McNamee/Corbis via Getty Images)
And why we're building something new.
Let me tell you a story about the middle-school antics currently playing out at a once-great newspaper. It goes a long way toward explaining why we started Common Sense and why we think it’s so essential.
It began with a joke. Actually, it was a retweet of a joke. The Washington Post’s politics reporter David Weigel retweeted the following joke this past…
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