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Washington Post Death Spiral Watch: A Fred Hiatt Trifecta

Posted on July 01, 2008

Why oh why can't we have a better press corps?And is there anybody with an ounce of self-respect--besides Glenn Kessler and Walter Pincus--who works for the Post print newsroom? And why do they still work for the Post?Jim Hamilton of Making Light: Making Light: Bush Lied, and Fred Hiatt Lied Too: The subject is the long-awaited Report on Whether Public Statements Regarding Iraq by U.S. Government officials Were Substantiated by Intelligence Information . Fred Hiatt, over at the Washington Post, makes much of the phrase found in many of the conclusions of the report, were generally substant...

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