The Washington Post Is “Very Right-Wing”?
July 27, 2007 at 9:16 pm
That might come as a surprise to many people — particularly those who read the newspaper.
But apparently not to Tony Blair’s press secretary Alastair Campbell.
We read this in the Post’s Sunday Book World review of his massive new book “The Blair Years”:
Visits to Washington and dealings with U.S. administrations inevitably figure large in his account. Campbell was dazzled by Bill Clinton, spooked by Dick Cheney, and respectful (at least in the published version) of George W. Bush, with whom he discussed drinking problems (Campbell’s was worse than the president’s), running and God (Campbell is a believer in the former and a non-believer in the latter). Visiting this newspaper with Blair in 1996, he found chairman Katharine Graham “impressive” and the editorial board “very right-wing.”
“Very right-wing”? We’ve been following the Post’s editorial migration toward at least the middle for a while. (Are we allowed to steal the Left’s terminology and call it “maturation”? Nah, they’d never allow it.) But “very right-wing”? We’d like to read the book to see any evidence.
rc geist said,
July 28, 2007 @ 7:38 am
He was probably likkered up at the editorial boad meeting too.
richarda said,
July 28, 2007 @ 8:11 am
By British standards, maybe. Virtually the whole world is far more statist than the U. S. This is NOT a good thing, but it is reality. Anything less than all-out socialism - gov’t. ownership/operation - is right-wing.
Hiker said,
July 29, 2007 @ 8:43 pm
Even slightly right wing would shock me. You are being kind with your “moving towards middle” comment. Maybe not extreme, but I see a left wing tilt.