Washington Post shutters last U.S. bureaus

[villager]

Washington Post shutters last U.S. bureaus

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 24, 2009; 7:08 PM

The Washington Post, in a significant retrenchment, is closing its remaining domestic bureaus around the country.

The six correspondents who work in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago will be offered reassignments in Washington, while three news assistants will be let go.

The money-saving move, coming on the heels of four rounds of early-retirement buyouts and the closing or merging of several sections, is the clearest sign yet of the newspaper's shrinking horizons in an era of diminished resources.

"The fact is we can effectively cover the rest of the country from Washington," Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli said Tuesday from New York, where he was delivering the news in person to the Post bureau there. "We have for years been able to cover issues around the country for our readers with a corps of traveling reporters. It's more possible than it's ever been to cover the issues that matter to our readers from a Washington perspective."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/24/AR2009112403014.html

Brauchli's comment tells you all you need to know about the Washington mindset....

[mcablue]

1. Good. They are a right-wing rag

Almost their entire opinion page is made up of warmongers who are against prosecuting torturers and wanted Libby to go free.

[villager]

2. ..and they will get even more insular now...

n/t

[SpiralHawk]

4. True. The Post is just republicon spewage, only a smidged above the Moonie Times

at this point...

[Captain Hilts]

8. I cancelled my subscription when they hired Gerson. Since then they've hired Kristol and Parker. nt

[Demeter]

3. Stupidity is Contagious

and DC is ground Zero.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

5. they keep sending me cut rate offers to restart my subscription.

no thanks.

[DCKit]

7. I couldn't help but laugh when I got a call from them.

Fox will never need a DC print outlet as long as the WaPo exists.

[Captain Hilts]

10. Yeah, that almost backfired on me when THE top editor for LTTE called me

to talk about one of my letters and the fact that I get so many printed!

We talked for 45 minutes.

[Captain Hilts]

9. Same here. nt

[virgogal]

6. I find this sad. I equivocate the WP with the Watergate coverage.

The end of an era,I guess.