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Why The 'Washington Post' Editor Should Resign

The Washington Post made a mistake when it hired Marcus Brauchli to be its executive editor. Brauchli came into the Post job a little more than a year ago after being managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, where he worked in the shadow of Rupert Murdoch.

A few months ago the Post was revealed to be planning a series of off-the-record salons that offered corporate underwriters access to the paper's journalists. At the time Brauchli and publisher Katharine Weymouth claimed they didn't know that the events were conceived to violate the Post's ethics guidelines.

But now Brauchli admits he knew all along that the salons were meant to be off-the-record. And he acknowledges that he knowingly allowed a false impression to be propagated and let the blame be shifted to a business-side employee, Charles Pelton. "Brauchli was given a chance to take responsibility, and he responded using the obfuscation and hair-splitting that newspapers like his exist to demolish. He should offer his resignation," writes Becovici.

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