The Washington Post can't be Fox News

But democracy is dying in darkness after all.

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Kat Tenbarge
August 13, 2025

Last week, former Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler published a piece on his Substack about why he left the publication that made him a media star. It included a very telling anecdote from April 2024 about how WaPo publisher Will Lewis asked him how the Post could “appeal more to Fox News viewers.”

Kessler’s piece offered a useful peek behind the curtain at the mentality that is currently governing the Post and how it’s affecting reporters and influencing coverage there. An institution I could once only dream of working at is on the verge of crumbling, and I don’t believe that’s by accident.

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