Washington â The Washington Post has steadily evolved from being a newspaper edited and written by journalists to being something else. Sean Hannity has said that journalism is dead in America, and so I would think he would say that it is written by dead journalists. I would agree with that, except that dead journalists cannot write. So, what has the newspaperâs staff evolved into? Propagandists? Possibly. Advertising hacks? That takes talent.
I think, this weekend, I hit upon precisely what The Washington Post has evolved into. It is the newspaper of the American Federation of Teachers. It is a newspaper edited and written by schoolmarms. It is intent on teaching its childlike readership something elevated every time its writers are let loose on a topic. Is Tom Sietsema writing on restaurants today? He will turn his piece into a lecture on obesity. Is Kevin B. Blackistone writing on sports? He will turn it into a lecture on how to be a good loser. And if the subject is politics, there is a swarm of writers at the Post who will, all of a sudden, be haranguing for Good Government, and they do not mind lying a bit. âThatâs politics,â as we say.