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> Except that The Washington Post operates independently, and has strong editorial standards, something that a lot of "news" sites on the Internet today don't even pretend to have.

Right, your news company is the only one that doesn't smell. Maybe you should adopt the motto "fair and balanced" to reflect how editorially independent and objective you are.

> Martin Baron, the paper’s executive editor:

The newspaper's editor says that he is objective? Zuckerburg also says facebook is all about user privacy. So it must be true.