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I recently beat up on the Washington Post for all but welcoming President Trump’s takeover and militarization of Washington, DC. And I’m going to do more of that below. But I also need to say, even as the Post Opinion Page continues to debase itself, the paper’s reporting on the takeover has been invaluable.

There’s a long held journalistic notion of an iron wall between the opinion and news sections. I’ve always found this to be mostly nonsense (the same dude owns both), with a few exceptions. For example, unless threatened with waterboarding, I can’t bring myself to read a Wall Street Journal opinion column. Yet I find the reporting in the Rupert Murdoch-owned paper to be high quality.

Right now, a similar bifurcation can be seen in the Post’s coverage of Trump’s DC takeover. But I fear this may be more of a momentary glitch, as billionaire Post owner Jeff Bezos has been shockingly clear about aligning his paper’s interests with Trump.

Bezos’ remake of the Post — which began in earnest just before the election, when Bezos personally killed the paper’s........

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