Last Sunday the N.Y. Times did a two page spread with photos on a competitor - The Washington Post. The following day the Post was sold. Stunning in its timing. While we were preoccupied with the A Team - that's A-Rod and Al Quaeda - another A man from Amazon swooped in to collect the family jewels from the three generation dynasty that is/was WAPO. This type blockbuster isn't supposed to happen in August in D.C. when the under-achieving congress has gone home and the rest of us are trying to sneak away to Saratoga for the waters or to Martha's Vineyard with our Blackberry to pick blueberries. Even Nixon waited til October for his Halloween Massacre. Will this be the end of those cozy Georgetown dinners where friendships and deals are made? And what about the Boys of Watergate? The late Al Capp, the creator of Lil Abner of Dogpatch, Kentucky had a phrase "It's confusin but amusin!" Now it's "Amazin but it's Amazon." Stay tuned.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/fashion/katharine-weymouth-takes-charge-at-the-washington-post.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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