Hey, Oxblog’s David Adesnik asked the question…we didn’t. And here’s why.
(Our answer. Yours truly loves the Washington Post, which remains one the country’s best-written, best-edited and best-reported newspapers. Oxblog, in turn, remains one of the Internet’s most consistently-thoughtful, issue-oriented and independent-minded weblogs. The only pity is that its crew isn’t writing as much as they used to.)
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.