More on WaPo censorship of it’s education writer.
The Washington City Paper goes behind the scenes on the censoring of Bill Turque, the Washington Post education writer who wrote a piece on the cozy relationship between Michelle Rhee and the Post’s editorial board. Turque wrote an online column that was amazingly frank about it. Then the Post took it down. Then they put it back, editing out the sharpest points.
When something that juicy gets taken down, phone calls are in order. Reached in his office right in the middle of the State of the Union Address, editorial board chief Fred Hiatt wouldn’t get into it. “I don’t have anything to tell you,” he said.
A newsroom source, however, confirmed that the post had indeed been taken down. The problem, according to the source, was that the post contained more opinion than allowed in the blog post of a beat writer. Translation: No posts with passion, outrage, and great writing are allowed on washingtonpost.com. Well, at least not if you’re on a beat.
