THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2007
Washington City Paper
Colbert King didn't retire quietly from the Washington Post. He said in his farewell memo that the paper's editorials were "resorting to sophomoric language," that some editorial writers were too cowardly to voice their opinions in meetings; and the page was practicing a double standard on race.
Erik Wemple writes: "The bombshell, though, drove at the very heart of editorial boarding: King implied that a single member had run away with the page. 'Editorials simply must not be used to advance one individual’s causes or views,' read the memo." That slam, says Wemple, was about the Post's Iraq war editorials.
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