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The Washington Post’s Descent Into Middle School Antics
The Washington Post’s Descent Into Middle School Antics
Bob Woodward at the Washington Post. (Wally McNamee/Corbis via Getty Images)
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By Bari Weiss
06.07.22 — Culture and Ideas
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The Washington Post’s Descent Into Middle School Antics

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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Bari Weiss

Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.

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