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Post yawns over Times regulatory scoop

By Mark Obbie

How lame. This is the Washington Post's folo to the Times' scoop last Saturday on the Bush administration's regulatory strategy: a Bloomberg column on page D3, published three days later. If the Post believes the Times blew the story, or blew it out of proportion, it should report and write that. Instead, it's lazily duplicated the story, without giving credit, rather than aggressively reporting with its own staff on a seemingly major rule-making change. This smacks of face-saving or sour grapes rather than thinking about readers.

Full post as published by Lawbeat on June 04, 2008 (boomark / email).