Posted 4:29 PM by Gene

The now former WaPost's ombudspoop lets loose with a parting blast -- and boy does it smell:

Much has already been written -- including about two dozen columns of mine -- about the press and the general failure to challenge in prewar coverage. As I look back at the past five years in this job, that is by far the single most important and most disappointing performance by the press, including The Post. And The Post -- along with the Los Angeles Times and the Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service -- was among the best. But it was nowhere near good enough.

The TRUTH TELLERS are caught between a rock and a hard place. If they report THE TRUTH, they lose circulation. If they DON'T report THE TRUTH, then they hold all sorts of seminars about what rotten people they are on their million-dollar salaries, and promise to redouble their efforts to tell THE TRUTH, which will lose them circulation. Meantime to make up they run all sorts of show-biz puff pieces and insulting features which lose them further circulation. They're in a lose-lose situation -- and this news consumer couldn't be happier.

Bye Mike! Looking forward to your reports from PBS -- which does a SUPERB job with the news!