Very interesting post.
"..The Washington Post clearly didn't have a very good weekend. First, circulation numbers continue to drop. Then, the Washington Post Company's third-quarter earnings dropped. And Jack Shafer takes them to task for royally excessive coverage of Charles and Camille (as in "10 pieces totaling 11,500 words" excessive"). Then there's this interesting--and fairly underreported--news item. Post reporter Matthew Mosk "may have violated a federal privacy law and the newspaper's ethical code when he used an unidentified person's account to view private conversations that linked a former aide to Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich's administration to a whisper campaign about a political rival."
Will the Post, like the White House, have to urge its staffers to "Let's Get Ethical! Ethical! I want to get Ethical! (Let me hear your body talk...)"?.."